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If you read the OT and pay some attention you would see the concept of cleanness and uncleanness quite often discussed, being holy and sanctified versus profane, etc. That doesn't make it any less hateful. Calling menstruating women "dirty" is not something you'd expect from people who received direct inspiration form God.

Kosta, God wasn't trying to be hateful when he commanded the children of Israel (the children of Jacob) to follow certain laws of cleanliness. You have to understand that the children of Israel were different in God's eye than anybody else. They were to be a nation of Priests, and they were to be Holy, as God is Holy, and they were to be sanctified by God:

Exodus 19:4-6
Ye have seen what I have did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on Eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself.

Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:

And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation.

Now, while Moses and the children of Israel were in the sinai, they were commanded by God to build the Tent of the Congregation, which was to house the Tabernacle and the Ark of Testimony (Covenant) among other things. In this tent of the Congregation, God appeared to them, many times, and for whatever reason, there are physical things which are unclean to God, and if those things come near to God disaster will result, likely with the result being death, which is referenced often.

There is a section in Leviticus, where Aaron's sons die while in the tent of the Congregation, and while God has appeared to them after following a ritual of burnt offering. Arron was the high priest, appointed directly by God, and his son's and all the generations of his descendants were to maintain the role. After the burnt offering, God appears to them:

Leviticus 9:22-24; 10:1-2
And Aaron lifted up his hand to the people, and blessed them,and came down from the offering of the sin offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings.

And Moses and Aaron went into the tabernacle of the congregation, and came out, and blessed the people: and the glory of the Lord appeared unto all the people.

And there came a fire out from before the Lord, and consumed upon the altar the burnt offering and the fat: which when all the people saw, they shouted and fell on their faces.

And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them their censor, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered a strange fire before the Lord, which he commanded them not.

And there went out fire from the Lord, and devoured them, and they died before the Lord.

Now, why certain physical things are unclean before God, I don't know. We just know that they are, because he tells us so, or at least he told them, and as I said, the children of Israel were to be most Holy before God.

Ye shall be holy, for I am holy

God says that many times in slightly different ways in Leviticus. You have to read all of Leviticus to understand what is going on, and you have to read Genesis and Exodus to really understand Leviticus, just as you have to read Genesis to understand Exodus. In other words, you have to start at the beginning and just keep reading through. I had never done that before. I had never actually sat down and read through the books of Moses, page by page, chapter by chapter, line by line, and word for word. I hadn't done that until now, and right now I am almost at the end of Leviticus. I actually enjoy it. And although I thought I had a good casual understanding of it, I didn't, and I found that out when I actually read it. Slowly, with deliberation, and with intent on trying to understand it. I now look forward to reading it almost every day, at least a couple of chapters, and oddly enough, it has a very calming affect on me...something I actually need right now because I lost my joe about 8 weeks ago and my world is literally falling apart all around me.

But anyway, I found out that Moses wasn't fairly young, as portrayed by Charlton Heston, but was actually 83 years old (four score and three) and Aaron was 80 (four score)

Jacob, who later became Israel, and the father of the twelve tribes...his brother Esau, was born red and very hairy, while Jacob himself was born of smooth skin, and not red, or so it's implied. In fact, Esau was so hairy, that when Rebekah commanded Jacob to impersonate his brother Esau before his father Isaac, who was almost blind at the time, she had him war goats skin, so when his father touched him, he would think it was Esau.

That the children of Israel, under God's command and specific directions, built an altar in the Sinai, the tent of the congregation, where God appeared to them many, many times. I never knew that.

Read the Bible with an open heart, and with deliberation, and I assure you, you won't regret it.