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Leviticus 15:18

The woman, with whom he copulateth, shall be washed with water, and shall be unclean until the evening.

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The verse in its languages

Vulgate (Clementine): Mulier, cum qua coierit, lavabitur aqua, et immunda erit usque ad vesperum.
Septuagint (Swete): καὶ γυνή, ἐὰν κοιμηθῇ ἀνὴρ μετ᾽ αὐτῆς κοίτην σπέρματος, καὶ λούσονται ὕδατι καὶ ἀκάθαρτοι ἔσονται ἕως ἑσπέρας.
Hebrew (WLC): וְאִשָּׁ֕ה אֲשֶׁ֨ר יִשְׁכַּ֥ב אִ֛ישׁ אֹתָ֖הּ שִׁכְבַת זָ֑רַע וְרָחֲצ֣וּ בַמַּ֔יִם וְטָמְא֖וּ עַד הָעָֽרֶב

The Fathers on this verse

St John Chrysostom The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Epistle to the Hebrews, Hebrews 12.28,29

But let us see in what sense “Marriage is honorable in all and the bed undefiled.” Because (he means) it preserves the believer in chastity. Here he also alludes to the Jews, because they accounted the woman after childbirth polluted: and “whosoever comes from the bed,” it is said, “is not clean.” Those things are not polluted which arise from nature, O ungrateful and senseless Jew, but those which arise from choice. For if “marriage is honorable” and pure, why forsooth dost thou think that one is even polluted by it?

The Fathers are given as they wrote. Where a passage lays the Passion on the Jewish people, the Church teaches that it cannot be charged against all the Jews then living, nor against the Jews of today, and that all sinners were its authors (CCC 597, 598).