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Leviticus 15:15-17
New English Translation
Leviticus 15:15-17
New English Translation
15 and the priest is to make one of them a sin offering[a] and the other a burnt offering.[b] So the priest[c] is to make atonement for him before the Lord for[d] his discharge.
16 “‘When a man has a seminal emission,[e] he must bathe his whole body in water[f] and be unclean until evening, 17 and he must wash in water any clothing or leather that has semen on it, and it will be unclean until evening.
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- Leviticus 15:15 sn See the note on Lev 4:3 regarding the term “sin offering.”
- Leviticus 15:15 tn Heb “and the priest shall make them one a sin offering and the one a burnt offering.” See the note on Lev 1:3 regarding the “burnt offering.”
- Leviticus 15:15 tn Heb “And the priest.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative force here.
- Leviticus 15:15 tn Heb “from”; see the note on 4:26.
- Leviticus 15:16 tn Heb “And a man when a lying of seed goes out from him”; KJV, ASV “any man’s seed of copulation”; NIV, NRSV, TEV, NLT “an emission of semen.”
- Leviticus 15:16 tn Heb “and he shall bathe all his flesh in water.”
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