| Leviticus 20:18
| If any man lie with a woman in her flowers, and uncover her nakedness, and she open the fountain of her blood, both shall be destroyed out of the midst of their people.
| People, if the action become public; otherwise the man may be purified, chap 15:24. This intemperance was by a positive law declared a mortal offence in the Jews, though in itself it might be venial. (Sanchez 9:21.) The text shews that the woman here gives her consent. --- And she open. Hence she deserves to die, for exposing herself and her children to great danger. (Haydock)
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