Leviticus 15:18

15:18 When a man has sexual intercourse with a woman and there is a seminal emission, ¹  they must bathe in water and be unclean until evening.

Leviticus 15:32

15:32 This is the law of the one with a discharge: the one who has a seminal emission ²  and becomes unclean by it, ³ 

Leviticus 15:16-17

15:16 “‘When a man has a seminal emission, ⁴  he must bathe his whole body in water ⁵  and be unclean until evening, 15:17 and he must wash in water any clothing or leather that has semen on it, and it will be unclean until evening.

Leviticus 19:20

Lying with a Slave Woman

19:20 “‘When a man has sexual intercourse with a woman, ⁶  although she is a slave woman designated for another man and she has not yet been ransomed, or freedom has not been granted to her, there will be an obligation to pay compensation. ⁷  They must not be put to death, because she was not free.

Leviticus 22:4

22:4 No man ⁸  from the descendants of Aaron who is diseased or has a discharge ⁹  may eat the holy offerings until he becomes clean. The one ¹⁰  who touches anything made unclean by contact with a dead person, ¹¹  or a man who has a seminal emission, ¹² 

[15:18]  ¹ tn Heb “And a woman who a man lies with her a lying of seed.”

[15:32]  ² tn Heb “and who a lying of seed goes out from him.”

[15:32]  ³ tn Heb “to become unclean in it.”

[15:16]  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.”

[15:16]  ⁴ tn Heb “and he shall bathe all his flesh in water.”

[19:20]  ⁴ tn Heb “And a man when he lies with a woman the lying of seed.”

[19:20]  ⁵ sn That is, the woman had previously been assigned for marriage to another man but the marriage deal had not yet been consummated. In the meantime, the woman has lost her virginity and has, therefore, lost part of her value to the master in the sale to the man for whom she had been designated. Compensation was, therefore, required (see the explanation in B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 130-31).

[22:4]  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).

[22:4]  ⁶ sn The diseases and discharges mentioned here are those described in Lev 13-15.

[22:4]  ⁷ tn Heb “And the one.”

[22:4]  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.

[22:4]  ⁹ tn Heb “or a man who goes out from him a lying of seed.”