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NASB | Leviticus 15:1 The LORD also spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, |
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Bible Question:
Leviticus 15 deals with uncleanness for bodily discharges of various kinds and specifies a sin-offering and a burnt offering for them. Do these discharges include only products of disease processes like diarrhea, blood and pus? I noticed that seminal discharges don't require offerings although the men who have them are to wash and be unclean until evening. Is that because no disease is involved? Is a woman's monthly blood considered a kind of disease? or just susceptible of it? |
Bible Answer: Lev. 15:1–33 This section deals with purification for bodily discharges. Several types of discharges by men (vv. 1–18) and women (vv. 19–30) are identified and given prescribed treatment. 15:2–15 These verses describe secretions related to some disease of the male sexual organs. After he became well, he was required to make both a sin and a burnt offering (v. 15). 15:16–18 These verses refer to natural sexual gland secretions for which no offerings were required. 15:19–24 These verses concern the natural menstrual discharge of a woman for which no offerings were required. 15:25–30 These verses deal with some secretion of blood indicating disease, not menstruation, requiring a sin and burnt offering after she is well. 15:31–33 In all these instructions, God was showing the Israelites that they must have a profound reverence for holy things; and nothing was more suited to that purpose than to bar from the tabernacle all who were polluted by any kind of uncleanness, ceremonial as well as natural, physical as well as spiritual. In order to mark out His people as dwelling before Him in holiness, He required of them complete purity and didn’t allow them to come before Him when defiled, even by involuntary or secret impurities. And when one considers that God was training a people to live in His presence, it becomes apparent that these rules for the maintenance of personal purity, pointing to the necessity of purity in the heart, were neither too stringent nor too minute. MacArthur, J. J. (1997). The MacArthur Study Bible (electronic ed.) (Le 15:1–31). Nashville: Word Pub. |
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