Leviticus 15:2
in Leviticus 15“Say to the Israelites, ‘When any man has a bodily discharge, the discharge is unclean.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
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.
KJV
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.
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This verse in Leviticus 15
Commentary
7 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
the LORD said to Moses and Aaron
on Leviticus 15:1-5
The chapter is spoken to Aaron as well as to Moses, because a priest must rule on these cases. The clean and unclean laws are addressed the same way at 11:1, 13:1 and 14:33.
This site's exposition
the discharge is unclean
Verses 2 to 15 treat a lasting discharge that ends with seven days and an offering, distinct from the single emission of verse 16. Matthew Henry notes that while unclean the man could neither approach the sanctuary nor eat the holy things. Adam Clarke finds the text plain enough.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
He must not dare to come near the sanctuary, it was at his peril if he did, nor might he eat of the holy things. This signified the filthiness of sin, and of all the productions of our corrupt nature, which render us odious to God's holiness, and utterly unfit for communion with him. Out of a pure heart well kept are the issues of life ( Prov. iv.
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Speak unto the children of Israel,....
And what fruit has the sinner then of those things whereof he has so much reason to be ashamed? As modesty is an ornament of grace to the head and chains about the neck, so chastity is health to the navel and marrow to the bones; but uncleanness is a wound and dishonour, the consumption of the flesh and the body, and a sin which is often its own punishment more than any other.
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
When any man hath a running issue--This chapter describes other forms of uncleanness, the nature of which is sufficiently intelligible in the text without any explanatory comment.
When any man hath a running issue - The cases of natural uncleanness, both of men and women, mentioned in this chapter, taken in a theological point of view, are not of such importance to us as to render a particular description necessary, the letter of the text being, in general, plain enough.
The words behind it
15 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| דַּבְּרוּ֙ | daberu | speak | H1696 → | 1141 times |
| אֶל־ | ʾel- | to | H413 → | 5510 times |
| בְּנֵ֣י | benei | [the] people of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל | yisrael | Israel | H3478 → | 2507 times |
| וַאֲמַרְתֶּ֖ם | vaamartem | and you will say | H559 → | 5305 times |
| אֲלֵהֶ֑ם | ʾalehem | to them | H413 → | 5510 times |
| אִ֣ישׁ | ʾish | a man | H376 → | 1663 times |
| אִ֗ישׁ | ʾish | a man | H376 → | 1663 times |
| כִּ֤י | ki | if | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| יִהְיֶה֙ | yihyeh | he will be | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| זָ֣ב | zav | discharging | H2100 → | 42 times |
| מִבְּשָׂר֔וֹ | mibesaro | from flesh his | H1320 → | 270 times |
| זוֹב֖וֹ | zovo | discharge his | H2101 → | 13 times |
| טָמֵ֥א | tame' | [is] unclean | H2931 → | 88 times |
| הֽוּא׃ | hu' | it | H1931 → | 1879 times |
דַּבְּרוּ֙speak
daberuH1696 →1141 times
אֶל־to
ʾel-H413 →5510 times
בְּנֵ֣י[the] people of
beneiH1121 →4930 times
יִשְׂרָאֵ֔לIsrael
yisraelH3478 →2507 times
וַאֲמַרְתֶּ֖םand you will say
vaamartemH559 →5305 times
אֲלֵהֶ֑םto them
ʾalehemH413 →5510 times
אִ֣ישׁa man
ʾishH376 →1663 times
אִ֗ישׁa man
ʾishH376 →1663 times
כִּ֤יif
kiH3588 →4482 times
יִהְיֶה֙he will be
yihyehH1961 →3559 times
זָ֣בdischarging
zavH2100 →42 times
מִבְּשָׂר֔וֹfrom flesh his
mibesaroH1320 →270 times
זוֹב֖וֹdischarge his
zovoH2101 →13 times
טָמֵ֥א[is] unclean
tame'H2931 →88 times
הֽוּא׃it
hu'H1931 →1879 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Matthew 9:20Suddenly a woman who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years came up behind Him and touched the fringe of His cloak.
it leads to
- Luke 8:43–56
including a woman who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years. She had spent all her money on physicians, but no one was able to heal her.
- Mark 6:56
And wherever He went—villages and towns and countrysides—they laid the sick in the marketplaces and begged Him just to let them touch the fringe of His cloak. And all who touched Him were healed.
- Matthew 14:36
and begged Him just to let them touch the fringe of His cloak. And all who touched Him were healed.
- Mark 5:25–43
And a woman was there who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years.
- Deuteronomy 22:12
You are to make tassels on the four corners of the cloak you wear.
- Luke 8:43–56
Through
Numbers 5:2“Command the Israelites to send away from the camp anyone with a skin disease, anyone who has a bodily discharge, and anyone who is defiled by a dead body.
it leads to
- Leviticus 21:1
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Speak to Aaron’s sons, the priests, and tell them that a priest is not to defile himself for a dead person among his people,
- Leviticus 13:46
As long as he has the infection, he remains unclean. He must live alone in a place outside the camp.
- Numbers 9:6–10
But there were some men who were unclean due to a dead body, so they could not observe the Passover on that day. And they came before Moses and Aaron that same day
- Leviticus 21:1
Where this verse is studied
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About Leviticus
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.