The Uncleanness of Secretions. - These include (1) a running issue from a man (Lev 15:2-15); (2) involuntary emission of seed (Lev 15:16, Lev 15:17), and the emission of seed in sexual intercourse (Lev 15:18); (3) the…
2Hablad a los hijos de Israel y decidles: Cualquier varón, cuando tuviere flujo de semen, será inmundo.
3Y esta será su inmundicia en su flujo: sea que su cuerpo destiló a causa de su flujo, o que deje de destilar a causa de su flujo, él será inmundo.
4Toda cama en que se acostare el que tuviere flujo, será inmunda; y toda cosa sobre la que se sentare, inmunda será.
5Y cualquiera que tocare su cama lavará sus vestidos; se lavará también a sí mismo con agua, y será inmundo hasta la noche.
6Y el que se sentare sobre aquello en que se hubiere sentado el que tiene flujo, lavará sus vestidos, se lavará también a sí mismo con agua, y será inmundo hasta la noche.
7Asimismo el que tocare el cuerpo del que tiene flujo, lavará sus vestidos, y a sí mismo se lavará con agua, y será inmundo hasta la noche.
8Y si el que tiene flujo escupiere sobre el limpio, este lavará sus vestidos, y después de haberse lavado con agua, será inmundo hasta la noche.
9Y toda montura sobre la que cabalgare el que tuviere flujo será inmunda.
10Cualquiera que tocare cualquiera cosa que haya estado debajo de él, será inmundo hasta la noche; y el que la llevare, lavará sus vestidos, y después de lavarse con agua, será inmundo hasta la noche.
11Y todo aquel a quien tocare el que tiene flujo, y no lavare con agua sus manos, lavará sus vestidos, y a sí mismo se lavará con agua, y será inmundo hasta la noche.
12La vasija de barro que tocare el que tiene flujo será quebrada, y toda vasija de madera será lavada con agua.
13Cuando se hubiere limpiado de su flujo el que tiene flujo, contará siete días desde su purificación, y lavará sus vestidos, y lavará su cuerpo en aguas corrientes, y será limpio.
14Y el octavo día tomará dos tórtolas o dos palominos, y vendrá delante de Jehová a la puerta del tabernáculo de reunión, y los dará al sacerdote;
15y el sacerdote hará del uno ofrenda por el pecado, y del otro holocausto; y el sacerdote le purificará de su flujo delante de Jehová.
16Cuando el hombre tuviere emisión de semen, lavará en agua todo su cuerpo, y será inmundo hasta la noche.
17Y toda vestidura, o toda piel sobre la cual cayere la emisión del semen, se lavará con agua, y será inmunda hasta la noche.
18Y cuando un hombre yaciere con una mujer y tuviere emisión de semen, ambos se lavarán con agua, y serán inmundos hasta la noche.
19Cuando la mujer tuviere flujo de sangre, y su flujo fuere en su cuerpo, siete días estará apartada; y cualquiera que la tocare será inmundo hasta la noche.
20Todo aquello sobre lo que ella se acostare mientras estuviere separada, será inmundo; también todo aquello sobre lo que se sentare será inmundo.
21Y cualquiera que tocare su cama, lavará sus vestidos, y después de lavarse con agua, será inmundo hasta la noche.
22También cualquiera que tocare cualquier mueble sobre el que ella se hubiere sentado, lavará sus vestidos; se lavará luego a sí mismo con agua, y será inmundo hasta la noche.
23Y lo que estuviere sobre la cama, o sobre la silla en que ella se hubiere sentado, el que lo tocare será inmundo hasta la noche.
24Si alguno durmiere con ella, y su menstruo fuere sobre él, será inmundo por siete días; y toda cama sobre la que durmiere, será inmunda.
25Y la mujer, cuando siguiere el flujo de su sangre por muchos días fuera del tiempo de su costumbre, o cuando tuviere flujo de sangre más de su costumbre, todo el tiempo de su flujo será inmunda como en los días de su costumbre.
26Toda cama en que durmiere todo el tiempo de su flujo, le será como la cama de su costumbre; y todo mueble sobre el que se sentare, será inmundo, como la impureza de su costumbre.
27Cualquiera que tocare esas cosas será inmundo; y lavará sus vestidos, y a sí mismo se lavará con agua, y será inmundo hasta la noche.
28Y cuando fuere libre de su flujo, contará siete días, y después será limpia.
29Y el octavo día tomará consigo dos tórtolas o dos palominos, y los traerá al sacerdote, a la puerta del tabernáculo de reunión;
30y el sacerdote hará del uno ofrenda por el pecado, y del otro holocausto; y la purificará el sacerdote delante de Jehová del flujo de su impureza.
31Así apartaréis de sus impurezas a los hijos de Israel, a fin de que no mueran por sus impurezas por haber contaminado mi tabernáculo que está entre ellos.
32Esta es la ley para el que tiene flujo, y para el que tiene emisión de semen, viniendo a ser inmundo a causa de ello;
33y para la que padece su costumbre, y para el que tuviere flujo, sea varón o mujer, y para el hombre que durmiere con mujer inmunda.
CARL FRIEDRICH KEIL AND FRANZ DELITZSCH OLD TESTAMENT COMMENTARY
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Versículo 2
I. The running issue from a man is not described with sufficient clearness for us to be able to dete…
The running issue from a man is not described with sufficient clearness for us to be able to determine with certainty what disease is referred to: "if a man becomes flowing out of his flesh, he is unclean in his flux." That even here the term flesh is not a euphemism for the organ of generation, as is frequently assumed, is evident from Lev 15:13, "he shall wash his clothes and bathe his flesh in water," when compared with Lev 16:23-24, Lev 16:28, etc., where flesh cannot possibly have any such meaning. The "flesh" is the body as in Lev 15:7, "whoever touches the flesh of him that hath the issue," as compared with Lev 15:19, "whosoever toucheth her." At the same time, the agreement between the law relating to the man with an issue and that concerning the woman with an issue (Lev 15:19, "her issue in her flesh") points unmistakeably to a secretion from the sexual organs. Only the seat of the disease is not more closely defined. The issue of the man is not a hemorrhoidal disease, for nothing is said about a flow of blood; still less is it a syphilitic suppuration (gonorrhaea virulenta), for the occurrence of this at all in antiquity is very questionable; but it is either a diseased flow of semen (gonorrhaea), i.e., an involuntary flow drop by drop arising from weakness of the organ, as Jerome and the Rabbins assume, or more probably, simply blenorrhaea urethrae, a discharge of mucus arising from a catarrhal affection of the mucous membrane of the urethra (urethritis). The participle זב יהיה is expressive of continued duration. In Lev 15:3 the uncleanness is still more closely defined: "whether his flesh run with his issue, or his flesh closes before his issue," i.e., whether the member lets the matter flow out or by closing retains it, "it is his uncleanness," i.e., in the latter case as well as the former it is uncleanness to him, he is unclean. For the "closing" is only a temporary obstruction, brought about by some particular circumstance.
II
Versículo 4
II. Every bed upon which he lay, and everything upon which he sat, was defiled in consequence; also e…
Every bed upon which he lay, and everything upon which he sat, was defiled in consequence; also every one who touched his bed (Lev 15:5), or sat upon it (Lev 15:6), or touched his flesh, i.e., his body (Lev 15:7), was unclean, and had to bathe himself and wash his clothes in consequence.
III
Versículo 9
III. The conveyance in which such a man rode was also unclean, as well as everything under him; and wh…
The conveyance in which such a man rode was also unclean, as well as everything under him; and whoever touched them was defiled till the evening, and the person who carried them was to wash his clothes and bathe himself.
IV
Versículo 11
IV. This also applied to every one whom the man with an issue might touch, without first rinsing his …
This also applied to every one whom the man with an issue might touch, without first rinsing his hands in water.
V
Versículo 12
V. Vessels that he had touched were to be broken to pieces if they were of earthenware, and rinsed w…
Vessels that he had touched were to be broken to pieces if they were of earthenware, and rinsed with water if they were of wood, for the reasons explained in Lev 11:33 and Lev 6:21.
VI
Versículo 13
VI. When he was cleansed, i.e., recovered from his issue, he was to wait seven days with regard to hi…
When he was cleansed, i.e., recovered from his issue, he was to wait seven days with regard to his purification, and then wash his clothes and bathe his body in fresh water, and be clean. On the eighth day he was to bring two turtle-doves or young pigeons, in order that the priest might prepare one as a sin-offering and the other as a burnt-offering, and make an atonement for him before the Lord for his issue.
VII
Versículo 16
VII. Involuntary emission of seed. - This defiled for the whole of the day, not only the man himself, …
Involuntary emission of seed. - This defiled for the whole of the day, not only the man himself, but any garment or skin upon which any of it had come, and required for purification that the whole body should be bathed, and the polluted things washed.
VIII
Versículo 18
VIII. Sexual connection. "If a man lie with a woman with the emission of seed, both shall be unclean ti…
Sexual connection. "If a man lie with a woman with the emission of seed, both shall be unclean till the evening, and bathe themselves in water." Consequently it was not the concubitus as such which defiled, as many erroneously suppose, but the emission of seed in the coitus. This explains the law and custom, of abstaining from conjugal intercourse during the preparation for acts of divine worship, or the performance of the same (Exo 19:5; Sa1 21:5-6; Sa2 11:4), in which many other nations resembled the Israelites. (For proofs see Leyrer's article in Herzog's Cyclopaedia, and Knobel in loco, though the latter is wrong in supposing that conjugal intercourse itself defiled.)
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Versículo 19
IX. The menses of a woman. - "If a woman have an issue, (if) blood is her issue in her flesh, she sha…
The menses of a woman. - "If a woman have an issue, (if) blood is her issue in her flesh, she shall be seven days in her uncleanness." As the discharge does not last as a rule more than four or five days, the period of seven days was fixed on account of the significance of the number seven. In this condition she rendered every one who touched her unclean (Lev 15:19), everything upon which she lay or sat (Lev 15:20), every one who touched her bed or whatever she sat upon (Lev 15:21, Lev 15:22), also any one who touched the blood upon her bed or seat (Lev 15:23, where הוּא and בּו are to be referred to דּם); and they remained unclean till the evening, when they had to wash their clothes and bathe themselves.
X
Versículo 24
X. If a man lay with her and her uncleanness came upon him, he became unclean for seven days, and th…
If a man lay with her and her uncleanness came upon him, he became unclean for seven days, and the bed upon which he lay became unclean as well. The meaning cannot be merely if he lie upon the same bed with her, but if he have conjugal intercourse, as is evident from Lev 20:18 and Num 5:13 (cf. Gen 26:10; Gen 34:2; Gen 35:22; Sa1 2:22). It cannot be adduced as an objection to this explanation, which is the only admissible one, that according to Lev 18:19 and Lev 20:18 intercourse with a woman during her menses was an accursed crime, to be punished by extermination. For the law in Lev 20:18 refers partly to conjugal intercourse during the hemorrhage of a woman after child-birth, as the similarity of the words in Lev 20:18 and Lev 12:7 (דּמיה מקור) clearly proves, and to the case of a man attempting cohabitation with a woman during her menstruation. The verse before us, on the contrary, refers simply to the possibility of menstruation commencing during the act of conjugal intercourse, when the man would be involuntarily defiled through the unexpected uncleanness of the woman.
XI
Versículo 25
XI. Diseased issue from a woman. - If an issue of blood in a woman flowed many days away from (not in…
Diseased issue from a woman. - If an issue of blood in a woman flowed many days away from (not in) the time of her monthly uncleanness, or if it flowed beyond her monthly uncleanness, she was to be unclean as long as her unclean issue continued, just as in the days of her monthly uncleanness, and she defiled her couch as well as everything upon which she sat, as in the other case, also every one who touched either her or these things.
XII
Versículo 28
XII. After the issue had ceased, she was to purify herself like the man with an issue, as described in…
After the issue had ceased, she was to purify herself like the man with an issue, as described in Lev 15:13-15. - Obedience to these commands is urged in Lev 15:31 : "Cause that the children of Israel free themselves from their uncleanness, that they die not through their uncleanness, by defiling My dwelling in the midst of them." הזּיר, Hiphil, to cause that a person keeps aloof from anything, or loosens himself from it, from נזר, Niphal to separate one's self, signifies here deliverance from the state of uncleanness, purification from it. Continuance in it was followed by death, not merely in the particular instance in which an unclean man ventured to enter the sanctuary, but as a general fact, because uncleanness as irreconcilable with the calling of Israel to be a holy nation, in the midst of which Jehovah the Holy One had His dwelling-place (Lev 11:44), and continuance in uncleanness without the prescribed purification was a disregard of the holiness of Jehovah, and involved rebellion against Him and His ordinances of grace.
XIII
Versículo 32
XIII. Concluding formula. The words, "him that lieth with her that is unclean," are more general than t…
Concluding formula. The words, "him that lieth with her that is unclean," are more general than the expression, "lie with her," in Lev 15:24, and involve not only intercourse with an unclean woman, but lying by her side upon one and the same bed.
Antiguo Testamento
Leviticus — Capítulo 15
The Uncleanness of Secretions. - These include (1) a running issue from a man (Lev 15:2-15); (2) involuntary emission of seed (Lev 15:16, Lev 15:17), and the emission of seed in sexual intercourse (Lev 15:18); (3) the…
Texto — Reina-Valera 1960
1Habló Jehová a Moisés y a Aarón, diciendo:
2Hablad a los hijos de Israel y decidles: Cualquier varón, cuando tuviere flujo de semen, será inmundo.
3Y esta será su inmundicia en su flujo: sea que su cuerpo destiló a causa de su flujo, o que deje de destilar a causa de su flujo, él será inmundo.
4Toda cama en que se acostare el que tuviere flujo, será inmunda; y toda cosa sobre la que se sentare, inmunda será.
5Y cualquiera que tocare su cama lavará sus vestidos; se lavará también a sí mismo con agua, y será inmundo hasta la noche.
6Y el que se sentare sobre aquello en que se hubiere sentado el que tiene flujo, lavará sus vestidos, se lavará también a sí mismo con agua, y será inmundo hasta la noche.
7Asimismo el que tocare el cuerpo del que tiene flujo, lavará sus vestidos, y a sí mismo se lavará con agua, y será inmundo hasta la noche.
8Y si el que tiene flujo escupiere sobre el limpio, este lavará sus vestidos, y después de haberse lavado con agua, será inmundo hasta la noche.
9Y toda montura sobre la que cabalgare el que tuviere flujo será inmunda.
10Cualquiera que tocare cualquiera cosa que haya estado debajo de él, será inmundo hasta la noche; y el que la llevare, lavará sus vestidos, y después de lavarse con agua, será inmundo hasta la noche.
11Y todo aquel a quien tocare el que tiene flujo, y no lavare con agua sus manos, lavará sus vestidos, y a sí mismo se lavará con agua, y será inmundo hasta la noche.
12La vasija de barro que tocare el que tiene flujo será quebrada, y toda vasija de madera será lavada con agua.
13Cuando se hubiere limpiado de su flujo el que tiene flujo, contará siete días desde su purificación, y lavará sus vestidos, y lavará su cuerpo en aguas corrientes, y será limpio.
14Y el octavo día tomará dos tórtolas o dos palominos, y vendrá delante de Jehová a la puerta del tabernáculo de reunión, y los dará al sacerdote;
15y el sacerdote hará del uno ofrenda por el pecado, y del otro holocausto; y el sacerdote le purificará de su flujo delante de Jehová.
16Cuando el hombre tuviere emisión de semen, lavará en agua todo su cuerpo, y será inmundo hasta la noche.
17Y toda vestidura, o toda piel sobre la cual cayere la emisión del semen, se lavará con agua, y será inmunda hasta la noche.
18Y cuando un hombre yaciere con una mujer y tuviere emisión de semen, ambos se lavarán con agua, y serán inmundos hasta la noche.
19Cuando la mujer tuviere flujo de sangre, y su flujo fuere en su cuerpo, siete días estará apartada; y cualquiera que la tocare será inmundo hasta la noche.
20Todo aquello sobre lo que ella se acostare mientras estuviere separada, será inmundo; también todo aquello sobre lo que se sentare será inmundo.
21Y cualquiera que tocare su cama, lavará sus vestidos, y después de lavarse con agua, será inmundo hasta la noche.
22También cualquiera que tocare cualquier mueble sobre el que ella se hubiere sentado, lavará sus vestidos; se lavará luego a sí mismo con agua, y será inmundo hasta la noche.
23Y lo que estuviere sobre la cama, o sobre la silla en que ella se hubiere sentado, el que lo tocare será inmundo hasta la noche.
24Si alguno durmiere con ella, y su menstruo fuere sobre él, será inmundo por siete días; y toda cama sobre la que durmiere, será inmunda.
25Y la mujer, cuando siguiere el flujo de su sangre por muchos días fuera del tiempo de su costumbre, o cuando tuviere flujo de sangre más de su costumbre, todo el tiempo de su flujo será inmunda como en los días de su costumbre.
26Toda cama en que durmiere todo el tiempo de su flujo, le será como la cama de su costumbre; y todo mueble sobre el que se sentare, será inmundo, como la impureza de su costumbre.
27Cualquiera que tocare esas cosas será inmundo; y lavará sus vestidos, y a sí mismo se lavará con agua, y será inmundo hasta la noche.
28Y cuando fuere libre de su flujo, contará siete días, y después será limpia.
29Y el octavo día tomará consigo dos tórtolas o dos palominos, y los traerá al sacerdote, a la puerta del tabernáculo de reunión;
30y el sacerdote hará del uno ofrenda por el pecado, y del otro holocausto; y la purificará el sacerdote delante de Jehová del flujo de su impureza.
31Así apartaréis de sus impurezas a los hijos de Israel, a fin de que no mueran por sus impurezas por haber contaminado mi tabernáculo que está entre ellos.
32Esta es la ley para el que tiene flujo, y para el que tiene emisión de semen, viniendo a ser inmundo a causa de ello;
33y para la que padece su costumbre, y para el que tuviere flujo, sea varón o mujer, y para el hombre que durmiere con mujer inmunda.
CARL FRIEDRICH KEIL AND FRANZ DELITZSCH OLD TESTAMENT COMMENTARY
Versículo 2
I. The running issue from a man is not described with sufficient clearness for us to be able to dete…
Versículo 4
II. Every bed upon which he lay, and everything upon which he sat, was defiled in consequence; also e…
Versículo 9
III. The conveyance in which such a man rode was also unclean, as well as everything under him; and wh…
Versículo 11
IV. This also applied to every one whom the man with an issue might touch, without first rinsing his …
Versículo 12
V. Vessels that he had touched were to be broken to pieces if they were of earthenware, and rinsed w…
Versículo 13
VI. When he was cleansed, i.e., recovered from his issue, he was to wait seven days with regard to hi…
Versículo 16
VII. Involuntary emission of seed. - This defiled for the whole of the day, not only the man himself, …
Versículo 18
VIII. Sexual connection. "If a man lie with a woman with the emission of seed, both shall be unclean ti…
Versículo 19
IX. The menses of a woman. - "If a woman have an issue, (if) blood is her issue in her flesh, she sha…
Versículo 24
X. If a man lay with her and her uncleanness came upon him, he became unclean for seven days, and th…
Versículo 25
XI. Diseased issue from a woman. - If an issue of blood in a woman flowed many days away from (not in…
Versículo 28
XII. After the issue had ceased, she was to purify herself like the man with an issue, as described in…
Versículo 32
XIII. Concluding formula. The words, "him that lieth with her that is unclean," are more general than t…