Leviticus 15:2
“Say to the Israelites, ‘When any man has a bodily discharge, the discharge is unclean.
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.
Note running…: or, running of the reins
“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When any man has a discharge from his body, because of his discharge he is unclean.
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When any man hath an issue out of his flesh, because of his issue he is unclean.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- unto the
- Deuteronomy 4:7, 8; Nehemiah 9:13, 14; Psalm 78:5; Psalm 147:19, 20; Romans 3:2
- when any man
- It is not necessary to consider particularly the laws contained in this chapter, the letter of the text being in general sufficiently plain. It may, however, be observed, that from the pains which persons rendered unclean were obliged to take, the ablutions and separations which they must observe, and the privations to which they must in consequence be exposed, in the way of commerce, traffic, etc., these laws were admirably adapted to prevent contagion of every kind, by keeping the whole from the diseased, and to hinder licentious indulgences and excesses of every description.
- Leviticus 22:4; Numbers 5:2; 2 Samuel 3:29; Matthew 9:20; Mark 5:25; Mark 7:20–23; Luke 8:43