Leviticus 15:19
19 “‘When a woman has a discharge and her discharge is blood from her body, she is to be in her menstruation seven days, and anyone who touches her will be unclean until evening. 20 Anything she lies on during her menstruation will be unclean, and anything she sits on will be unclean. 21 Anyone who touches her bed must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening. 22 Anyone who touches any furniture she sits on must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening. 23 If there is something on the bed or on the furniture she sits on, when he touches it, he will be unclean until evening, 24 and if a man actually goes to bed with her so that her menstrual impurity touches him, then he will be unclean seven days, and any bed he lies on will be unclean.
Protoevangelium of James 8
Gospel of James8 Her parents left, marveling and praising the Lord because the child hadn’t turned back. Mary remained in the temple of the Lord, like a dove living there, receiving food from the hand of an angel. When she turned twelve, the priests gathered and said, “Look, Mary has reached the age of twelve here in the temple. What should we do with her so that she doesn’t defile the sanctuary of the Lord?” They said to the high priest, “You stand at the altar of the Lord; go in and pray about her, and whatever the Lord reveals to you, that’s what we’ll do.” The high priest went in, taking the robe with the twelve bells, and entered the holy of holies. As he prayed about her, an angel of the Lord appeared beside him, saying, “Zacharias, Zacharias, go out and gather the widowers of the people. Let each one bring his staff, and the one to whom the Lord shows a sign, she will be his wife.” So the heralds went throughout all of Judea, and the trumpet of the Lord sounded, and everyone came running.
Notes and References
"... This verse serves as the transitional link between the preceding chapters of the Gospel of Mary and the beginning of the Joseph Council in the Protoevangelium of James 8:3 within the context of the redactional enhancement by the Composer’s interpolation of the Joseph Council before the Veil Council. In that setting the genitive absolute was introduced by the Composer to facilitate the abrupt transition from Protoevangelium 8:2, which briefly describes Mary’s life in the temple from the age of three, to 8:3, where Mary is now a physically mature twelve years old, thus obliging the priests to hold the Joseph Council to resolve the issue of her new impure status vis-à-vis the purity laws regarding menstruant women in the temple. (Compare the classical biblical passage in Leviticus 15:19-31) ..."
Zervos, George The Protevangelium of James: Greek Text and English Translation with a Critical Introduction (Volume 1) (pp. 24-25) T&T Clark, 2019