3And this shall be his uncleanness in his issue: whether his flesh run with his issue, or his flesh be stopped from his issue, it is his uncleanness.
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For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.
Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.
Commentary
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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