Approach … to uncover her nakedness: another expression for sexual intercourse. See verse 6.

While she is in her menstrual uncleanness: literally “in the time of her uncleanness,” but this obviously refers to the ritual state of the woman due to her monthly period of menstruation.

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 .