This is the law of him that hath an issue, and of him whose seed goeth from him, and is defiled therewith;
Parallel translations
- WEB This is the law of him who has a discharge, and of him who has an emission of semen, so that he is unclean thereby;
- BSB This is the law of him who has a discharge, of the man who has an emission of semen whereby he is unclean,
- NKJV This is the law for one who has a discharge, and for him who emits semen and is unclean thereby,
- NASB This is the law for the one with a discharge, and for the man who has a seminal emission so that he is unclean by it,
- NLT These are the instructions for dealing with anyone who has a bodily discharge—a man who is unclean because of an emission of semen
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Quick answer
This begins the summary of the laws on male discharges and emissions. It gathers the preceding cases into a concluding statement.
Overview
The verse opens the closing summary of chapter 15, recalling the laws concerning a man's discharge and seminal emission. Such summaries helped Israel remember and apply these regulations rightly. The careful ordering of the law reflects the orderliness of a holy God, whose ultimate purpose was to dwell purely among His people through the cleansing later secured in Christ.
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Cross-references · 9
- Num 6:13And this is the law of the Nazarite, when the days of his separation are fulfilled: he shall be brought unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:
- Num 19:14This is the law, when a man dieth in a tent: all that come into the tent, and all that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.
- Num 5:29This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled;
- Lev 14:2This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought unto the priest:
- Lev 14:54This is the law for all manner of plague of leprosy, and scall,
- Lev 11:46This is the law of the beasts, and of the fowl, and of every living creature that moveth in the waters, and of every creature that creepeth upon the earth:
- Lev 13:59This is the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment of woollen or linen, either in the warp, or woof, or any thing of skins, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.
- Lev 14:32This is the law of him in whom is the plague of leprosy, whose hand is not able to get that which pertaineth to his cleansing.
- Ezek 43:12This is the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.
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