Imamat 15:16-18

15:16 “‘When a man has a seminal emission, ¹  he must bathe his whole body in water ²  and be unclean until evening, 15:17 and he must wash in water any clothing or leather that has semen on it, and it will be unclean until evening. 15:18 When a man has sexual intercourse with a woman and there is a seminal emission, ³  they must bathe in water and be unclean until evening.

Imamat 22:4

22:4 No man ⁴  from the descendants of Aaron who is diseased or has a discharge ⁵  may eat the holy offerings until he becomes clean. The one ⁶  who touches anything made unclean by contact with a dead person, ⁷  or a man who has a seminal emission, ⁸ 

[15:16]  ¹ tn Heb “And a man when a lying of seed goes out from him”; KJV, ASV “any man’s seed of copulation”; NIV, NRSV, TEV, NLT “an emission of semen.”

[15:16]  ² tn Heb “and he shall bathe all his flesh in water.”

[15:18]  ³ tn Heb “And a woman who a man lies with her a lying of seed.”

[22:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “Man man.” The reduplication is a way of saying “any man” (cf. Lev 15:2; 17:3, etc.), but with a negative command it means “No man” (see B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 147).

[22:4]  ⁵ sn The diseases and discharges mentioned here are those described in Lev 13-15.

[22:4]  ⁶ tn Heb “And the one.”

[22:4]  ⁷ tn Heb “in all unclean of a person/soul”; for the Hebrew term נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh) meaning “a [dead] person,” see the note on Lev 19:28.

[22:4]  ⁸ tn Heb “or a man who goes out from him a lying of seed.”