Leviticus 15:2
New International Version
“Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When any man has an unusual bodily discharge, such a discharge is unclean.

New Living Translation
“Give the following instructions to the people of Israel. “Any man who has a bodily discharge is ceremonially unclean.

English Standard Version
“Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When any man has a discharge from his body, his discharge is unclean.

Berean Standard Bible
“Say to the Israelites, ‘When any man has a bodily discharge, the discharge is unclean.

King James Bible
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.

New King James Version
“Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When any man has a discharge from his body, his discharge is unclean.

New American Standard Bible
“Speak to the sons of Israel, and say to them, ‘When any man has a discharge from his body, his discharge is unclean.

NASB 1995
“Speak to the sons of Israel, and say to them, ‘When any man has a discharge from his body, his discharge is unclean.

NASB 1977
“Speak to the sons of Israel, and say to them, ‘When any man has a discharge from his body, his discharge is unclean.

Legacy Standard Bible
“Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘When any man has a discharge from his body, his discharge is unclean.

Amplified Bible
“Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘When any man has a bodily discharge, his discharge is unclean.

Christian Standard Bible
“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When any man has a discharge from his member, he is unclean.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When any man has a discharge from his body, he is unclean.

American Standard Version
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.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
“Speak with the children of Israel and say to them, ‘When a man will be discharging from his body, his discharge is defiled.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, Whatever man shall have an issue out of his body, his issue is unclean.

Contemporary English Version
to say to the community of Israel: Any man with an infected penis is unclean,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: The man that hath an issue of seed, shall be unclean.

English Revised Version
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.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"Tell the Israelites: If a man has a discharge from his penis, his discharge is unclean.

Good News Translation
for the people of Israel. When any man has a discharge from his penis, the discharge is unclean,

International Standard Version
"Tell the Israelis that when a man has a discharge from his body, his discharge is unclean,

JPS Tanakh 1917
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them: When any man hath an issue out of his flesh, his issue is unclean.

Literal Standard Version
“Speak to the sons of Israel, and you have said to them: When there is discharging out of the flesh of any man, he [is] unclean [from] his discharge;

Majority Standard Bible
“Say to the Israelites, ‘When any man has a bodily discharge, the discharge is unclean.

New American Bible
Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When any man has a genital discharge, he is thereby unclean.

NET Bible
"Speak to the Israelites and tell them, 'When any man has a discharge from his body, his discharge is unclean.

New Revised Standard Version
Speak to the people of Israel and say to them: When any man has a discharge from his member, his discharge makes him ceremonially unclean.

New Heart English Bible
"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.

Webster's Bible Translation
Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When any man hath a running issue out of his flesh, because of his issue he is unclean.

World English Bible
“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.

Young's Literal Translation
Speak unto the sons of Israel, and ye have said unto them, When there is an issue out of the flesh of any man, for his issue he is unclean;

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Context
The Uncleanness of Men
1And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, 2“Say to the Israelites, ‘When any man has a bodily discharge, the discharge is unclean. 3This uncleanness is from his discharge, whether his body allows the discharge to flow or blocks it. So his discharge will bring about uncleanness.…

Cross References
Leviticus 15:1
And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,

Leviticus 15:3
This uncleanness is from his discharge, whether his body allows the discharge to flow or blocks it. So his discharge will bring about uncleanness.

Leviticus 22:4
If a descendant of Aaron has a skin disease or a discharge, he may not eat the sacred offerings until he is clean. Whoever touches anything defiled by a corpse or by a man who has an emission of semen,

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.

2 Samuel 3:29
May it whirl over the heads of Joab and the entire house of his father, and may the house of Joab never be without one having a discharge or skin disease, or one who leans on a staff or falls by the sword or lacks food."


Treasury of Scripture

Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When any man has a running issue out of his flesh, because of his issue he is unclean.

unto the

Deuteronomy 4:7,8
For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for? …

Nehemiah 9:13,14
Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments: …

Psalm 78:5
For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:

Leviticus 22:4
What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or hath a running issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he be clean. And whoso toucheth any thing that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose seed goeth from him;

Numbers 5:2
Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead:

2 Samuel 3:29
Let it rest on the head of Joab, and on all his father's house; and let there not fail from the house of Joab one that hath an issue, or that is a leper, or that leaneth on a staff, or that falleth on the sword, or that lacketh bread.

running issue.

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Leviticus 15
1. The uncleanness of men in their issues
13. The cleansing of them
19. The uncleanness of women in their issues
28. Their cleansing














(2) A running issue out of his flesh.--Flesh, as is frequently the case, euphemistically denotes private parts. (See Genesis 6:10; Genesis 7:13; Leviticus 6:3; Leviticus 16:4; Ezekiel 16:26; Ezekiel 23:20, &c.) . . . Verses 2-15. - The first case of an issue. It appears to be identical with the disease called by physicians gonorrhea, or, perhaps, blenorrhea (cf. chapter Leviticus 22:4; Numbers 5:2).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
“Say
דַּבְּרוּ֙ (dab·bə·rū)
Verb - Piel - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's 1696: To arrange, to speak, to subdue

to
אֶל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

the Israelites,
בְּנֵ֣י (bə·nê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 1121: A son

‘When
כִּ֤י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

any
אִ֣ישׁ (’îš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 376: A man as an individual, a male person

man
אִ֗ישׁ (’îš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 376: A man as an individual, a male person

has
יִהְיֶה֙ (yih·yeh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

a bodily
מִבְּשָׂר֔וֹ (mib·bə·śā·rōw)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 1320: Flesh, body, person, the pudenda of a, man

discharge,
זָ֣ב (zāḇ)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 2100: To flow freely, to have a, flux, to waste away, to overflow

the discharge
זוֹב֖וֹ (zō·w·ḇōw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 2101: A seminal, menstrual flux

is unclean.
טָמֵ֥א (ṭā·mê)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 2931: Unclean


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