Leviticus 15:3
New International Version
Whether it continues flowing from his body or is blocked, it will make him unclean. This is how his discharge will bring about uncleanness:

New Living Translation
This defilement is caused by his discharge, whether the discharge continues or stops. In either case the man is unclean.

English Standard Version
And this is the law of his uncleanness for a discharge: whether his body runs with his discharge, or his body is blocked up by his discharge, it is his uncleanness.

Berean Standard Bible
This uncleanness is from his discharge, whether his body allows the discharge to flow or blocks it. So his discharge will bring about uncleanness.

King James Bible
And 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.

New King James Version
And this shall be his uncleanness in regard to his discharge—whether his body runs with his discharge, or his body is stopped up by his discharge, it is his uncleanness.

New American Standard Bible
This, moreover, shall be his uncleanness in his discharge: it is his uncleanness whether his body allows its discharge to flow or whether his body obstructs its discharge.

NASB 1995
‘This, moreover, shall be his uncleanness in his discharge: it is his uncleanness whether his body allows its discharge to flow or whether his body obstructs its discharge.

NASB 1977
‘This, moreover, shall be his uncleanness in his discharge: it is his uncleanness whether his body allows its discharge to flow, or whether his body obstructs its discharge.

Legacy Standard Bible
This, moreover, shall be his uncleanness in his discharge: it is his uncleanness whether his body allows its discharge to flow or whether his body obstructs its discharge.

Amplified Bible
This shall be [the law concerning] his uncleanness in his discharge: whether his body allows its discharge to flow or obstructs its flow; it is uncleanness in him.

Christian Standard Bible
This is uncleanness of his discharge: Whether his member secretes the discharge or retains it, he is unclean. All the days that his member secretes or retains anything because of his discharge, he is unclean.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
This is uncleanness of his discharge: Whether his body secretes the discharge or retains it, he is unclean. All the days that his body secretes or retains anything because of his discharge, he is unclean.

American Standard Version
And 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.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And this will be the defilement of his discharge: his flesh runs with his discharge or his flesh has ceased from its discharge; it is his defilement.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And this is the law of his uncleanness; whoever has a gonorrhoea out of his body, this is his uncleanness in him by reason of the issue, by which, his body is affected through the issue: all the days of the issue of his body, by which his body is affected through the issue, there is his uncleanness.

Contemporary English Version
whether it is stopped up or keeps dripping.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And then shall he be judged subject to this evil, when a filthy humour, at every moment, cleaveth to his flesh, and gathereth there.

English Revised Version
And 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.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
He is unclean because of the discharge from his penis. Whether it is chronic or not makes no difference; he is still unclean.

Good News Translation
whether the penis runs with it or is stopped up by it.

International Standard Version
and this is the cause of his uncleanness—his discharge. Whether his body is releasing the discharge or his body has stopped the discharge, he's unclean.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And 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.

Literal Standard Version
and this is his uncleanness in his discharge—his flesh has run with his discharge, or his flesh has stopped from his discharge; it [is] his uncleanness.

Majority Standard Bible
This uncleanness is from his discharge, whether his body allows the discharge to flow or blocks it. So his discharge will bring about uncleanness.

New American Bible
Such is his uncleanness from this discharge, whether his body drains freely with the discharge or is blocked up from the discharge. His uncleanness is on him all the days that his body discharges or is blocked up from his discharge; this is his uncleanness.

NET Bible
Now this is his uncleanness in regard to his discharge--whether his body secretes his discharge or blocks his discharge, he is unclean. All the days that his body has a discharge or his body blocks his discharge, this is his uncleanness.

New Revised Standard Version
The uncleanness of his discharge is this: whether his member flows with his discharge, or his member is stopped from discharging, it is uncleanness for him.

New Heart English Bible
This shall be his uncleanness in his discharge: whether his body runs with his discharge, or his body has stopped from his discharge, it is his uncleanness. All the days of the discharge of his body, even if his body obstructs his discharge, it is his uncleanness.

Webster's Bible Translation
And this shall be his uncleanness in his issue: whether his flesh shall run with his issue, or his flesh be stopped from his issue, it is his uncleanness.

World English Bible
This shall be his uncleanness in his discharge: whether his body runs with his discharge, or his body has stopped from his discharge, it is his uncleanness.

Young's Literal Translation
and this is his uncleanness in his issue -- his flesh hath run with his issue, or his flesh hath stopped from his issue; it is his uncleanness.

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Context
The Uncleanness of Men
2“Say to the Israelites, ‘When any man has a bodily discharge, the discharge is unclean. 3This uncleanness is from his discharge, whether his body allows the discharge to flow or blocks it. So his discharge will bring about uncleanness. 4Any bed on which the man with the discharge lies will be unclean, and any furniture on which he sits will be unclean.…

Cross References
Leviticus 15:2
"Say to the Israelites, 'When any man has a bodily discharge, the discharge is unclean.

Leviticus 15:4
Any bed on which the man with the discharge lies will be unclean, and any furniture on which he sits will be unclean.


Treasury of Scripture

And 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.

Leviticus 12:3
And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.

Ezekiel 16:26
Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.

Ezekiel 23:20
For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

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Leviticus 15
1. The uncleanness of men in their issues
13. The cleansing of them
19. The uncleanness of women in their issues
28. Their cleansing














(3) Whether his flesh run.--This verse defines more minutely the statement in the preceding verse.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
This
וְזֹ֛את (wə·zōṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - feminine singular
Strong's 2063: Hereby in it, likewise, the one other, same, she, so much, such deed, that,

uncleanness
טֻמְאָת֖וֹ (ṭum·’ā·ṯōw)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 2932: Religious impurity

is
תִּהְיֶ֥ה (tih·yeh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

from his discharge,
בְּזוֹב֑וֹ (bə·zō·w·ḇōw)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 2101: A seminal, menstrual flux

whether his body
בְּשָׂר֞וֹ (bə·śā·rōw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 1320: Flesh, body, person, the pudenda of a, man

allows
רָ֣ר (rār)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7325: To slaver, to emit a, fluid

the discharge {to flow}
זוֹב֗וֹ (zō·w·ḇōw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 2101: A seminal, menstrual flux

or
אֽוֹ־ (’ōw-)
Conjunction
Strong's 176: Desire, if

blocks it.
הֶחְתִּ֤ים (heḥ·tîm)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 2856: To seal, affix a seal, seal up

So his discharge
מִזּוֹב֔וֹ (miz·zō·w·ḇōw)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 2101: A seminal, menstrual flux

will bring about
הִֽוא׃ (hî)
Pronoun - third person feminine singular
Strong's 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are

uncleanness.
טֻמְאָת֖וֹ (ṭum·’ā·ṯōw)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 2932: Religious impurity


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