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Elberfelder Bibel
3 Mose 15:16
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Concordances:
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- InternationalParallel Translations
Wenn einem Mann der Same entgeht, so soll er sein ganzes Fleisch mit Wasser baden und unrein sein bis zum Abend.
Wenn einem Mann im Schlaf der Same entgeht, der soll sein ganzes Fleisch mit Wasser baden und unrein sein bis auf den Abend.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Leviticus 15:5, Leviticus 22:4, Deuteronomy 23:10, Deuteronomy 23:11, 2 Corinthians 7:1, 1 Peter 2:11, 1 John 1:7
Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 20:26 - he is not clean
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And if any man's seed of copulation go out from him,.... Not in lawful cohabitation, nor voluntarily, but involuntarily, as Aben Ezra observes; not through any disorder, which came by an accident, or in any criminal way, but through a dream, or any lustful imagination; what is commonly called nocturnal pollution c;
then he shall wash all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the even; and so the Egyptian priests, when it happened that they were defiled by a dream, they immediately purified themselves in a laver d so the Jewish priests did when the like happened to them asleep in the temple e; see Deuteronomy 23:10.
c "----& noctem flumine purgas." Pers. Satyr. 2. d Chaeremon. apud Porphyr. de Abstinentia, l. 4. c. 7. e Misn. Tamid. c. 1. sect. 1.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Most of the ancient religions made a similar recognition of impurity and of the need of purfication.
Leviticus 15:17
Every garment - Compare Jude 1:23.
