15:16 “‘When a man has a seminal emission, 3 he must bathe his whole body in water 4 and be unclean until evening,
1 tn Heb “and who a lying of seed goes out from him.”
2 tn Heb “to become unclean in it.”
3 tn Heb “And a man when a lying of seed goes out from him”; KJV, ASV “any man’s seed of copulation”; NIV, NRSV, TEV, NLT “an emission of semen.”
4 tn Heb “and he shall bathe all his flesh in water.”
5 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).
6 sn The diseases and discharges mentioned here are those described in Lev 13-15.
7 tn Heb “And the one.”
8 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.
9 tn Heb “or a man who goes out from him a lying of seed.”