Leviticus 15:16

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.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And if any man’s seed of copulation go out from him, then he shall wash all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the even.

In Context

15Who 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.

17The garment or skin that he weareth, he shall wash with water, and it shall be unclean until the evening.

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Cross References

Leviticus 15:5If ally man touch his bed, he shall wash his clothes: and being washed with water, he shall be unclean until the evening.

Deuteronomy 23:10If there be among you any man, that is defiled in a dream by night, he shall go forth out of the camp.

Deuteronomy 23:12Thou shalt have a place without the camp, to which thou mayst go for the necessities of nature,

1 Peter 2:11Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, to refrain yourselves from carnal desires which war against the soul,

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 15:2-19

Ceremonial Purification. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When any man hath a running issue out of his flesh, because of his issue he is unclean. 3 And this shall be his uncleanness in his issue: whether his flesh run with his issue, or his flesh be stopped from his issue, it is his uncleanness. 4 Every bed, whereon he lieth that hath the issue, is unclean: and every thing, whereon he sitteth, shall be unclean. 5 And… Read the whole commentary →

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