Leviticus 15:1-6

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.

6 If you sit where the man with the discharge has sat, you must wash your clothes and bathe yourself in water, and you will remain unclean until evening.

Leviticus 15:1-6 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO LEVITICUS 15

This chapter treats of uncleanness by issues in men and women; in men, a running issue, Le 15:1-3, which defiles him, and everything he touches, or that touches him or them, Le 15:4-12; the cleansing from which is directed to, Le 15:13-15; and seed flowing from him, Le 15:16-18; in women, their ordinary courses, Le 15:19-24; or extraordinary ones, Le 15:25-27; and the law for the cleansing of them, Le 15:28-31; and a recapitulation of the whole, Le 15:32,33.