Leviticus 15:13

Purity Regulations for Male Bodily Discharges

15:13 “‘When the man with the discharge becomes clean from his discharge he is to count off for himself seven days for his purification, and he must wash his clothes, bathe in fresh water, ¹  and be clean.

Leviticus 22:4

22:4 No man ²  from the descendants of Aaron who is diseased or has a discharge ³  may eat the holy offerings until he becomes clean. The one ⁴  who touches anything made unclean by contact with a dead person, ⁵  or a man who has a seminal emission, ⁶ 

¹ tn For the expression “fresh water” see the note on Lev 14:5 above.

² tn Heb “Man man.” The reduplication is a way of saying “any man” (cf. Lev 15:2; 17:3, etc.), but with a negative command it means “No man” (see B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 147).

³ sn The diseases and discharges mentioned here are those described in Lev 13-15.

⁴ tn Heb “And the one.”

⁵ tn Heb “in all unclean of a person/soul”; for the Hebrew term נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh) meaning “a [dead] person,” see the note on Lev 19:28.

⁶ tn Heb “or a man who goes out from him a lying of seed.”