Leviticus 15:3 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

And this is the law of his uncleanness for a discharge: whether his body runs with his discharge, or his body is stopped from discharge, it is uncleanness in him.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

This shall be [the law concerning] his uncleanness in his discharge: whether his body runs with his discharge or has stopped [running], it is uncleanness in him.

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

Common English Bible

This is the nature of the uncleanness brought about by his emission: regardless of whether his genital organ allows his emission to flow or blocks the flow, it is unclean to him.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And then he shall be judged subject to this fault, if a filthy fluid, at each moment, adheres to his flesh and gathers there.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Leviticus 15:3 Cross References

Ezekiel 16:26

You also played the harlot with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors, multiplying your harlotry, to provoke me to anger.

Ezekiel 23:20

and doted upon her paramours there, whose members were like those of asses, and whose issue was like that of horses.

Leviticus 12:3

And on the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.

Leviticus 15:2

“Say to the people of Israel, When any man has a discharge from his body, his discharge is unclean.

Leviticus 15:4

Every bed on which he who has the discharge lies shall be unclean; and everything on which he sits shall be unclean.