| 28. Linguistic Exegesis The clause begins with the conditional protasis marked by ve’im {וְאִם | wə-ʾim} ‘and if’, introducing the legal scenario. The Qal perfect verb taharah {טָהֲרָה | ṭā-ḥă-rāh} ‘she is cleansed’ indicates completed ritual purification. The prepositional phrase mizovah {מִזּוֹבָהּ | mi-ẓō-wāh} ‘from her discharge’ specifies the source of impurity. The apodosis opens with the vav-consecutive verb vesafrah {וְסָפְרָה | wə-śā-p̄ə-rāh} ‘and she shall count’ plus the dative lah {לָּהּ | lāh} ‘to her’, followed by the numeral construct shiv’at {שִׁבְעַת | ši-ḇaʿ-ṯ} ‘seven of’ and the noun yamim {יָמִים | yā-mîm} ‘days’ to establish the required period. The temporal conjunction ve’achar {וְאַחַר | wə-ʾa-ḥar} ‘and after’ introduces the imperfect verb tithar {תִּטְהָר | ṯi-ṭhā-r} ‘she shall be clean’, indicating a future change in status. The Hebrew structure of conditional protasis followed by apodosis underscores the cause-and-effect relationship central to purity legislation, which is rendered in English as a single flowing sentence to preserve both clarity and legal nuance. |