23. Uncleanness and purity regulation; male discharge (Lev 15:1-18)

Any bodily discharge was regarded as unclean

👉 Read Leviticus 15:1-18

When any man has (               ) from his body, his discharge is (               ).

 

Verses 4-12 can be summarized this way. Anyone or (                ) that contacts the man of discharge is (               ). Especially the thing that was (           ) him became unclean. (10)

 

When the discharge ends, he counts off (           ) days for purification. Then, he needed to offer two turtledoves for (               ) and (               ).

Answers and Meditation

Discharge, unclean

 

Anything, unclean, under

The discharge might imply the secretion caused by some disease affecting a man's sexual organs. The writer did not describe the physical problem in detail. The description of the discharges seems to refer to either a diseased flow of semen (gonorrhea) or a discharge of pus from the urethra. In either case, this was a fairly long-lasting ailment. – Tom Constable’s note

Note that the objects the infected person sat and lay upon became secondary sources of uncleanness. In this regard, the uncleanness described here is much more 'infectious' than the uncleanness of skin diseases dealt with in chs. 13—14. – Tom Constable’s note

Seven, a sin offering, a burnt offering