Leviticus 15:3

3 This defilement is caused by his discharge, whether the discharge continues or stops. In either case the man is unclean.

Leviticus 15:3 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 15:3

And this shall be his uncleanness in his issue
Or the sign of it, by which it may be judged whether he is unclean by it or no:

whether his flesh run with his issue;
or salivates, or emits a flow of matter like a saliva, or in the manner of spittle:

or his flesh be stopped from his issue;
with it, or because of it; because it is gross, as Jarchi says, it cannot come forth freely:

it [is] his uncleanness;
whether it be one or the other, he is reckoned on account of it an unclean person. This was an emblem of the corruption and vitiosity of nature, and of all evil things that are in or flow out of the evil heart of man, which are defiling to him; see ( Matthew 15:18 Matthew 15:19 ) .

Leviticus 15:3 In-Context

1 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,

2 “Give the following instructions to the people of Israel. “Any man who has a bodily discharge is ceremonially unclean.

3 This defilement is caused by his discharge, whether the discharge continues or stops. In either case the man is unclean.

4 Any bed on which the man with the discharge lies and anything on which he sits will be ceremonially unclean.

5 So if you touch the man’s bed, you must wash your clothes and bathe yourself in water, and you will remain unclean until evening.