Leviticus 15:17

Every garment and every skin which the semen is on shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the evening.

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In The King James Version

And every garment, and every skin, whereon is the seed of copulation, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the even.

In Context

16“‘If any man has an emission of semen, then he shall bathe all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the evening.

18If a man lies with a woman and there is an emission of semen, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the evening.

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Cross References

Numbers 31:23everything that may withstand the fire, you shall make to go through the fire, and it shall be clean; nevertheless it shall be purified with the water for impurity. All that doesn’t withstand the fire you shall make to go through the water.

Jude 1:23and some save, snatching them out of the fire with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.

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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