This verse corresponds to verse 4 concerning men, but it is not a word-for-word repetition. (Compare also verse 26.) Note that Good News Translation has restructured and simplified this verse.

During her impurity: that is, during her time of menstruation. See the discussion under “a discharge of blood” in the previous verse.

Quoted with permission from Péter-Contesse, René and Ellington, John. A Handbook on Leviticus. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 1990. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .