Leviticus 15:33

_THUS SHALL YE SEPARATE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL FROM THEIR UNCLEANNESS; THAT THEY DIE NOT IN THEIR UNCLEANNESS, WHEN THEY DEFILE MY TABERNACLE THAT IS AMONG THEM._ Thus shall ye separate ... from their uncleanness. The divine wisdom was manifested in inspiring the Israelites with a profound reverence for holy things; and nothing was more suited to this purpose than to debar from the tabernacle all who were polluted by any kind of uncleanness, ceremonial as well as natural, mental as well as physical. The better to mark out that people as His family, His servants and priests, dwelling in the camp as in a holy place, consecrated by His presence and His tabernacle, He required of them complete purity, and did not allow them to come before Him when defiled, even by involuntary or secret impurities, as want of respect due to His majesty. And when we bear in mind that God was training up a peo...

This solemn admonition is addressed to Moses and Aaron, see Leviticus 15:1. Leviticus 15:31 MY TABERNACLE - Strictly, “my dwelling-place” משׁכן _mı̂shkān_, as in Leviticus 8:10; Leviticus 17:4; Leviticus 26:11. The word rendered “tabernacle” elsewhere in Leviticus is properly “tent.” See the Exodus 26:1 note....

EXPOSITION RUNNING ISSUES FROM THE HUMAN BODY. These are the fourth cause of ceremonial uncleanness. We are not to look for a moral basis for the regulation on account of any vicious habit connected with such issues. They are foul and repulsive, and simply for that reason they are causes of ceremonial uncleanness to those who suffer from them, and to those who crone in contact with persons suffering from them. LEVITICUS 15:2 The first case of an issue. It appears to be identical with the disease called by physicians gonorrhea, or, perhaps, blenorrhea (cf. Leviticus 22:4; Numbers 5:

AND OF HER THAT IS SICK OF HER FLOWERS,.... Her monthly courses, for these are a sickness, Leviticus 20:18; and make a woman languid and faint, as the word is rendered, Lamentations 1:13; or to be in pain n, as some render it here; and pains are reckoned among the signs of them by the Misnic doctors o: AND OF HIM THAT HATH AN ISSUE, OF THE MAN, AND OF THE WOMAN; of both, whether the one or the other: AND OF HIM THAT LIETH WITH HER THAT IS UNCLEAN; though her own husband. n והדוה "et dolentis", Montanus. o Misn. Niddah, c. 9. sect. 8....

5. CONCERNING ISSUES: MAN'S WEAKNESS AND DEFILEMENT CHAPTER 15 _ 1. The uncleanness of a man (Leviticus 15:1)_ 2. The uncleanness of a woman (Leviticus 15:19) The whole chapter shows the deplorable physical condition into which man has been plunged by sin. The issues mentioned were therefore an evidence of the presence of sin in man's nature with the curse upon it, and constitutes man and woman unclean in the sight of God. “Not only actions, from which we can abstain, but operations of nature which we cannot help, alike defile; defile in such a manner and degree as to require, even as voluntary acts of sin, the cleansing of water and the expiatory blood of a sin offering. One could not avoid many of the defilements mentioned in this chapter, but that made no differ

LEVITICUS 15. ISSUES. Four kinds are considered; the first of these (Leviticus 15:1) is apparently pathological, though there is no reference to venereal diseases, which are unknown in the OT; the second (Leviticus 15:16) normal; the third (Leviticus 15:19), normal and periodic; the fourth (2 Leviticus 15:5), an abnormal occurrence or prolongation of the normal. Whether normal or not, all these occurrences are regarded as causing taboos in ethnic religions, and as connected with supernatural powers; the third kind is constantly associated with the bite of a demon (as, for example, in Australia). Possibly a simila

The concluding _vv_. include all the cases mentioned in this chapter. Cp. the conclusion to ch. 11. The gradations in the methods of cleansing should be noted: (_a_) the uncleanness lasted till the end of the day, and ceased without any further ceremonial, -he shall be unclean until the even"; (_b_) washing the clothes and bathing in running water is added (Leviticus 15:13); (_c_) sacrifices must also be offered, for the leper, a woman in childbirth (ch. 12) and two cases in ch. 15 (Leviticus 15:15_; Leviticus 15:30_)....

_LEVITICUS 15:32_.— The threatened penalty for approaching the sanctuary in the circumstances mentioned in the text was death. And hereby veneration and awe were kept up in their minds for the tabernacle, and more for that holy God who dwelt in it. If even natural and involuntary infirmities were in some sense offensive, how much had they need fear to provoke his holiness by wilful impurities? Though these ordinances have ceased with the worldly sanctuary, the benefit of them is permanent: to warn us of the defiling nature of sin, to engage us to keep the body as well as the soul pure for the Lord; and thus to be always ready to appear before him, whether in his tabernacle on earth, or before his throne in heaven....

DISEASED ISSUE FROM A WOMAN 15:25-33 TEXT 15:25-33 25 And if a woman have an issue of her blood many days not in the time of her impurity, or if she have an issue beyond the time of her impurity; all the days of the issue of her uncleanness she shall be as in the days of her impurity: she is unclean. 26 Every bed whereon she lieth all the days of her issue shall be unto her as the bed of her impurity: and everything whereon she sitteth shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her impurity. 27 And whosoever toucheth those things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bath himself in water, and be unclean until the even. 28 But if she be cleansed of her issue, then she shall number to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean. 29 And on the eighth day she shall take unto her two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, and bring them unto the priest, to the door...

15:33 sick (b-7) Or 'unclean.'...