18The woman also with whom man shall lie with seed of copulation, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the even.
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But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints; …
And whosoever toucheth his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
And the priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread under mine hand, but there is hallowed bread; if the young men have kept themselves at least from women. …
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-18)We have here the law concerning the ceremonial uncleanness that was contracted by running issues in men. It is called in the margin (Lev. 15:2) the running of the reins : a very grievous and loathsome disease, which was, usually the effect and consequent of wantonness and uncleanness, and a dissolute course of life, filling men’s bones with the sins of their youth, and leaving them to mourn at the…
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