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NASB | Leviticus 15:2 "Speak to the sons of Israel, and say to them, 'When any man has a discharge from his body, his discharge is unclean. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Leviticus 15:2 "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, 'When any man has a bodily discharge, his discharge is unclean. |
Bible Question:
"Speak to the sons of Israel, and say to them, 'When any man has a discharge from his body, his discharge is unclean." (Lev. 15:2) What are the implications of this verse and those that follow today? Does this mean that God finds intercouse between a man and a woman to be unclean? I believe in the validity of scripture, but this chapter causes me problems. God created humans with bodily processes and saw that they were good. Why did he then say that they were unclean? |
Bible Answer: NASB Leviticus 15:2 "Speak to the sons of Israel, and say to them, 'When any man has a discharge from his body, his discharge is unclean." 'hath a running issue out of his flesh; what physicians call a "gonorrhoea", and we, as in the margin of our Bibles, "the running of the reins": '[because of] his issue, he [is] unclean; in a ceremonial sense, though it arises from a natural cause; but if not from any criminal one, from a debauch, but from a strain, or some such like thing, the man was not defiled, otherwise he was; the Targum of Jonathan is,' "if he sees it three times he is unclean;'' so the Misnah. (Gill, John. "Commentary on Leviticus 15:2". "The New John Gill Exposition of the Entire Bible".' [www.studylight.org]) 'When any man hath a running issue--This chapter describes other forms of uncleanness, the nature of which is sufficiently intelligible in the text without any explanatory comment. Being the effects of licentiousness, they properly come within the notice of the legislator, and the very stringent rules here prescribed, both for the separation of the person diseased and for avoiding contamination from anything connected with him, were well calculated not only to prevent contagion, but to discourage the excesses of licentious indulgence.' (Jamieson, Robert, D.D. "Commentary on Leviticus 15". "Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible". (www.studylight.org]) 'In this chapter we have laws concerning other ceremonial uncleannesses contracted either by bodily disease like that of the leper, or some natural incidents, and this either, I. In men, Leviticus 15:1-18. Or, II. In women, Leviticus 15:19-33. We need not be at all curious in explaining these antiquated laws, it is enough if we observe the general intention; but we have need to be very cautious lest sin take occasion by the commandment to become more exceedingly sinful; and exceedingly sinful it is when lust is kindled by sparks of fire from God's altar. The case is bad with the soul when it is putrefied by that which should purify it.' (Henry, Matthew. "Complete Commentary on Leviticus 15". "Matthew Henry Complete Commentary on the Whole Bible". [www.studylight.org]) |
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