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Leviticus 15:2
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"Speak to the children of Yisra'el, and tell them, 'When any man has a discharge from his body, because of his discharge he is unclean.
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When any man hath a running issue out of his flesh, because of his issue he is unclean.
"Speak to the Israelites, and you shall say to them, ‘Any man when a fluid discharge occurs from his body, his fluid discharge is unclean.
"Say to the people of Israel: ‘When a fluid comes from a person's body, the fluid is unclean.
"Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘When any man has a discharge from his body, his discharge is unclean.
"Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, 'When any man has a bodily discharge, his discharge is unclean.
"Speak to the sons of Israel, and say to them, 'When any man has a discharge from his body, his discharge is unclean.
Speake vnto the children of Israel, and say vnto them, Whosoeuer hath an issue from his flesh, is vncleane, because of his issue.
"Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘When any man has a discharge from his body, his discharge is unclean.
to say to the community of Israel: Any man with an infected penis is unclean,
"Tell the people of Isra'el, ‘When any man has a discharge from his body, the discharge is unclean.
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man have a flux from his flesh, because of his flux he is unclean.
"Say to the Israelites: Whoever has a genital discharge is unclean.
"Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When any man has a discharge from his body, his discharge is unclean.
Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, When any man has a seminal discharge from his body, his discharge is unclean,
for the people of Israel. When any man has a discharge from his penis, the discharge is unclean,
“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When any man has a discharge from his member, he is unclean.
Speak to the sons of Israel, and you shall say to them, to any man, When there is an issue from his flesh; it is unclean because of his issue.
Speake to the children of Israel, and saie vnto him: Whan a man hath a runnynge yssue from out of his flesh, ye same is vncleane: but the is he vncleane by the reason of this yssue,
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When any man hath an issue out of his flesh, because of his issue he is unclean.
Say to the children of Israel: If a man has an unclean flow from his flesh, it will make him unclean.
Speake vnto the children of Israel, and say vnto them: Whosoeuer hath a runnyng issue out of his fleshe, is vncleane by reason of that issue.
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them: When any man hath an issue out of his flesh, his issue is unclean.
Speake vnto the children of Israel, and say vnto them, when any man hath a running issue out of his flesh, because of his issue he is vncleane.
Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, Whatever man shall have an issue out of his body, his issue is unclean.
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When any man hath an issue out of his flesh, because of his issue he is unclean.
"Say to the Israelites, 'When any man has a bodily discharge, the discharge is unclean.
Speke ye to the sones of Israel, and seie ye to hem, A man that suffrith the rennyng out of seed, schal be vncleene;
`Speak unto the sons of Israel, and ye have said unto them, When there is an issue out of the flesh of any man, [for] his issue he [is] unclean;
Speak to the sons of Israel, and say to them, When any man has discharging out of his flesh a [genital] discharge, he is unclean.
Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When any man hath a running issue out of his flesh, [because of] his issue he [is] unclean.
"Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, 'When any man has a discharge from his body, because of his discharge he is unclean.
"Give the following instructions to the people of Israel. "Any man who has a bodily discharge is ceremonially unclean.
"Say to the people of Israel, ‘When a man has something flowing from his body, what is flowing is unclean.
Speak to the people of Israel and say to them: When any man has a discharge from his member, his discharge makes him ceremonially unclean.
Speak unto the sons of Israel, and ye shall say unto them, - When, any man whatsoever, hath a flowing from his flesh, his flux, is, unclean.
Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: The man that hath an issue of seed, shall be unclean.
"Say to the people of Israel, When any man has a discharge from his body, his discharge is unclean.
"Speak to the sons of Israel, and say to them, 'When any man has a discharge from his body, his discharge is unclean.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
unto the: Deuteronomy 4:7, Deuteronomy 4:8, Nehemiah 9:13, Nehemiah 9:14, Psalms 78:5, Psalms 147:19, Psalms 147:20, Romans 3:2
when any man: It is not necessary to consider particularly the laws contained in this chapter, the letter of the text being in general sufficiently plain. It may, however, be observed, that from the pains which persons rendered unclean were obliged to take, the ablutions and separations which they must observe, and the privations to which they must in consequence be exposed, in the way of commerce, traffic, etc., these laws were admirably adapted to prevent contagion of every kind, by keeping the whole from the diseased, and to hinder licentious indulgences and excesses of every description. Leviticus 22:4, Numbers 5:2, 2 Samuel 3:29, Matthew 9:20, Mark 5:25, Mark 7:20-23, Luke 8:43
running issue: or, running of the reins
Reciprocal: Leviticus 7:20 - having Zechariah 13:1 - uncleanness
Cross-References
Hebrews 11:8-10">[xr] After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, saying, "Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward."
But Abram said, "Lord GOD, what will You give me, seeing I go childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?"
Then Abram said, "Look, You have given me no offspring; indeed one born in my house is my heir!"
And behold, the word of the LORD came to him, saying, "This one shall not be your heir, but one who will come from your own body shall be your heir."
And he believed in the LORD, and He accounted it to him for righteousness.
So Abraham said to the oldest servant of his house, who ruled over all that he had, "Please, put your hand under my thigh,
Then the servant took ten of his master's camels and departed, for all his master's goods were in his hand. And he arose and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.
Now Isaac pleaded with the LORD for his wife, because she was barren; and the LORD granted his plea, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
There is no one greater in this house than I, nor has he kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?"
When they drew near to the steward of Joseph's house, they talked with him at the door of the house,
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Speak unto the children of Israel,.... From whence we learn, says the above mentioned writer, that these uncleannesses were only usual among the children of Israel, not among the Gentiles; that is, the laws respecting them were only binding on the one, and not on the other s:
and say unto them, when any man; in the Hebrew text it is, "a man, a man", which the Targum of Jonathan paraphrases, a young man, and an old man:
hath a running issue out of his flesh; what physicians call a "gonorrhoea", and we, as in the margin of our Bibles, "the running of the reins":
[because of] his issue, he [is] unclean; in a ceremonial sense, though it arises from a natural cause; but if not from any criminal one, from a debauch, but from a strain, or some such like thing, the man was not defiled, otherwise he was; the Targum of Jonathan is,
"if he sees it three times he is unclean;''
so the Misnah t.
s So Maimon. & Bartenora in Misn. Edaiot, c. 5. sect. 1. t Zabim, c. 1. sect. 1. Maimon. & Bartenora in ib.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Leviticus 15:2. When any man hath a running issue — The cases of natural uncleanness, both of men and women, mentioned in this chapter, taken in a theological point of view, are not of such importance to us as to render a particular description necessary, the letter of the text being, in general, plain enough. The disease mentioned in the former part of this chapter appears to some to have been either the consequence of a very bad infection, or of some criminal indulgence; for they find that it might be communicated in a variety of ways, which they imagine are here distinctly specified. On this ground the person was declared unclean, and all commerce and connection with him strictly forbidden. The Septuagint version renders ××× hazzab, the man with the issue, by Î¿Ì Î³Î¿Î½Î¿ÏÏÌÏ Î·Ï, the man with a gonorrhoea, no less than nine times in this chapter; and that it means what in the present day is commonly understood by that disorder, taken not only in its mild but in its worst sense, they think there is little room to doubt. Hence they infer that a disease which is supposed to be comparatively recent in Europe, has existed almost from time immemorial in the Asiatic countries; that it ever has been, in certain measures, what it is now; and that it ever must be the effect of sensual indulgence, and illicit and extravagant intercourse between the sexes. The disgraceful disorder referred to here is a foul blot which the justice of God in the course of providence has made in general the inseparable consequent of these criminal indulgences, and serves in some measure to correct and restrain the vice itself. In countries where public prostitution was permitted, where it was even a religious ceremony among those who were idolaters, this disease must necessarily have been frequent and prevalent. When the pollutions and libertinism of former times are considered, it seems rather strange that medical men should have adopted the opinion, and consumed so much time in endeavouring to prove it, viz., that the disease is modern. It must have existed, in certain measures, ever since prostitution prevailed in the world; and this has been in every nation of the earth from its earliest era. That the Israelites might have received it from the Egyptians, and that it must, through the Baal-peor and Ashteroth abominations which they learned and practised, have prevailed among the Moabites, c., there can be little reason to doubt. Supposing this disease to be at all hinted at here, the laws and ordinances enjoined were at once wisely and graciously calculated to remove and prevent it. By contact, contagion of every kind is readily communicated and to keep the whole from the diseased must be essential to the check and eradication of a contagious disorder. This was the wise and grand object of this enlightened Legislator in the ordinances which he lays down in this chapter. I grant, however, that it was probably of a milder kind in ancient times; that it has gained strength and virulence by continuance; and that, associated with some foreign causes, it became greatly exacerbated in Europe about 1493, the time in which some have supposed it first began to exist, though there are strong evidences of it in this country ever since the eleventh century.
