Leviticus 15:16
Good News Translation
When a man has an emission of semen, he must bathe his whole body, and he remains unclean until evening.

New Revised Standard Version
If a man has an emission of semen, he shall bathe his whole body in water, and be unclean until the evening.

Contemporary English Version
Any man who has a flow of semen must take a bath, but he still remains unclean until evening.

New American Bible
When a man has an emission of semen, he shall bathe his whole body in water and be unclean until evening.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The man from whom the seed of copulation goeth out, shall wash all his body with water: and he shall be unclean until the evening.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The man from whom the seed of copulation goeth out, shall wash all his body with water: and he shall be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 15:5 If any man touch his bed, he shall wash his clothes and being washed with water, he shall be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 22:4 The man of the seed of Aaron, that is a leper, or that suffereth a running of the seed, shall not eat of those things that are sanctified to me, until he be healed. He that toucheth any thing unclean by occasion of the dead: and he whose seed goeth from him as in generation:

Deuteronomy 23:10,11 If there be among you any man, that is defiled in a dream by night, he shall go forth out of the camp, . . .

2 Corinthians 7:1 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of the flesh and of the spirit, perfecting sanctification in the fear of God.

1 Peter 2:11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you, as strangers and pilgrims, to refrain yourselves from carnal desires which war against the soul,

1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he also is in the light, we have fellowship one with another: And the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

Context
The Cleansing of Men
15Who shall offer one for sin, and the other for a holocaust: and he shall pray for him before the Lord, that he may be cleansed of the issue of his seed. 16The man from whom the seed of copulation goeth out, shall wash all his body with water: and he shall be unclean until the evening.17The garment or skin that he weareth, he shall wash with water: and it shall be unclean until the evening.…
Cross References
Leviticus 15:17
The garment or skin that he weareth, he shall wash with water: and it shall be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 15:18
The woman, with whom he copulateth, shall be washed with water: and shall be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 22:4
The man of the seed of Aaron, that is a leper, or that suffereth a running of the seed, shall not eat of those things that are sanctified to me, until he be healed. He that toucheth any thing unclean by occasion of the dead: and he whose seed goeth from him as in generation:

Deuteronomy 23:10
If there be among you any man, that is defiled in a dream by night, he shall go forth out of the camp,

Deuteronomy 23:11
And shall not return, before he be washed with water in the evening: and after sunset he shall return into the camp.

Leviticus 15:15
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