Leviticus 15:4-8
New English Translation
4 “‘Any bed the man with a discharge lies on will be unclean,[a] and any furniture he sits on will be unclean.[b] 5 Anyone who touches his bed[c] must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.[d] 6 The one who sits on the furniture the man with a discharge sits on must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening. 7 The one who touches the body[e] of the man with a discharge must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening. 8 If the man with a discharge spits on a person who is ceremonially clean,[f] that person must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
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- Leviticus 15:4 tn Heb “All the bed which the man with a discharge sits on it shall be unclean”; cf. NLT “Any bedding.”
- Leviticus 15:4 tn Heb “and all the vessel which he sits on it shall be unclean”; NASB “everything on which he sits.”
- Leviticus 15:5 tn Heb “And a man who touches in his bed”; NLT “touch the man’s bedding.”
- Leviticus 15:5 tn Heb “he shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until the evening” (cf. also vv. 6-8, 10-11, etc.).
- Leviticus 15:7 tn Heb “And the one who touches in the flesh.” In this instance, “flesh” (or “body”) probably refers literally to any part of the body, not the genitals specifically (see the discussion in J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:914).
- Leviticus 15:8 tn Heb “And if the man with a discharge spits in the clean one.”
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