Leviticus 15:31-33

Summary of Purification Regulations for Bodily Discharges

15:31 “‘Thus you ¹  are to set the Israelites apart from their impurity so that they ²  do not die in their impurity by defiling my tabernacle which is in their midst. 15:32 This is the law of the one with a discharge: the one who has a seminal emission ³  and becomes unclean by it, ⁴  15:33 the one who is sick in her menstruation, the one with a discharge, whether male or female, ⁵  and a man ⁶  who has sexual intercourse with an unclean woman.’”

[15:31]  ¹ tn Heb “And you shall.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative force here (cf. KJV, ASV, NASB, NCV, NRSV).

[15:31]  ² tn Heb “and they.” Here the Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) indicates a negative purpose (“lest,” so NAB, NASB).

[15:32]  ³ tn Heb “and who a lying of seed goes out from him.”

[15:32]  ⁴ tn Heb “to become unclean in it.”

[15:33]  ⁵ tn Heb “and the one with a discharge, his discharge to the male and the female.”

[15:33]  ⁶ tn Heb “and for a man.”