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Chapter 15

Sexual Uncleanness.[a] The Lord said to Moses and Aaron: [b]Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When any man has a genital discharge, he is thereby unclean.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 15:1–33 Sexual discharges may be unclean partly because they involve the loss of life fluids or are otherwise involved with phenomena at the margins of life and death.
  2. 15:2–3 The uncleanness here is perhaps a discharge of pus because of urethritis (often but not solely associated with gonorrhea).