Lévitique 15:3

3 C'est dans son flux que consiste sa souillure: que sa chair laisse couler son flux ou qu'elle le retienne, il est souillé.

Lévitique 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 ) .

Lévitique 15:3 In-Context

1 L'Éternel parla aussi à Moïse et à Aaron, en disant:
2 Parlez aux enfants d'Israël, et dites-leur: Tout homme qui a un flux en sa chair, son flux le rend souillé.
3 C'est dans son flux que consiste sa souillure: que sa chair laisse couler son flux ou qu'elle le retienne, il est souillé.
4 Tout lit sur lequel couchera celui qui est atteint d'un flux sera souillé, et tout objet sur lequel il s'assiéra sera souillé.
5 Celui qui touchera son lit, lavera ses vêtements, se lavera dans l'eau, et sera souillé jusqu'au soir.
The Ostervald translation is in the public domain.