May it hang over Joab’s head and his father’s whole family, and may the house of Joab never be without someone who has a discharge or a skin disease, or a man who can only work a spindle, or someone who falls by the sword or starves.’
Leviticus 15:2 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised ‘Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When any man has a discharge from his member, he is unclean. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When any man hath a running issue out of his flesh, because of his issue he is unclean. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Say to the Israelites, When any man has a running discharge from his body, because of his discharge he is unclean. American Standard Version (1901) Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When any man hath an issue out of his flesh, because of his issue he is unclean. Common English Bible Speak to the Israelites and say to them: Whenever a man has a genital emission, that emission is unclean. Catholic Public Domain Version Speak to the sons of Israel, and say to them: The man who undergoes a flow of seed shall be unclean. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: The man that hath an issue of seed shall be unclean. |
May it hang over Joab’s head and his father’s whole family, and may the house of Joab never be without someone who has a discharge or a skin disease, or a man who can only work a spindle, or someone who falls by the sword or starves.’
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.
No man of Aaron’s descendants who has a skin disease or a discharge is to eat from the holy offerings until he is clean. Whoever touches anything made unclean by a dead person or by a man who has an emission of semen,
Or if he touches human uncleanness #– #any uncleanness by which one can become defiled #– #without being aware of it, but later recognises it, he incurs guilt.
‘Command the Israelites to send away anyone from the camp who is afflicted with a skin disease, anyone who has a discharge, or anyone who is defiled because of a corpse.
Just then, a woman who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years approached from behind and touched the end of his robe,
A woman suffering from bleeding for twelve years, who had spent all she had on doctors and yet could not be healed by any,
Considerable in every way. First, they were entrusted with the very words of God.