Leviticus 15:13-23

13 If he who suffereth this disease be healed, he shall number seven days after his cleansing: and having washed his clothes, and all his body in living water, he shall be clean.
14 And on the eighth day he shall take two turtles, or two young pigeons, and he shall come before the Lord, to the door of the tabernacle of the testimony, and shall give them to the priest.
15 Who shall offer one for sin, and the other for a holocaust: and he shall pray for him before the Lord, that he may be cleansed of the issue of his seed.
16 The man from whom the seed of copulation goeth out, shall wash all his body with water: and he shall be unclean until the evening.
17 The garment or skin that he weareth, he shall wash with water: and it shall be unclean until the evening.
18 The woman, with whom he copulateth, shall be washed with water: and shall be unclean until the evening.
19 The woman, who at the return of the month, hath her issue of blood, shall be separated seven days.
20 Every one that toucheth her, shall be unclean until the evening.
21 And every thing that she sleepeth on, or that she sitteth on in the days of her separation, shall be defiled.
22 He that toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes: and being himself washed with water, shall be unclean until the evening.
23 Whosoever shall touch any vessel on which she sitteth, shall wash his clothes: and himself being washed with water, shall be defiled until the evening.

Leviticus 15:13-23 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.

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