Leviticus 15:16
The man from whom the seed of copulation goeth out, shall wash all his body with water: and he shall be unclean until the evening.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Vir de quo egreditur semen coitus, lavabit aqua omne corpus suum : et immundus erit usque ad vesperum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Καὶ ἄνθρωπος ᾧ ἐὰν ἐξέλθῃ ἐξ αὐτοῦ κοίτη σπέρματος, καὶ λούσεται ὕδατι πᾶν τὸ σῶμα αὐτοῦ καὶ ἀκάθαρτος ἔσται ἕως ἑσπέρας·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְאִ֕ישׁ כִּֽי תֵצֵ֥א מִמֶּ֖נּוּ שִׁכְבַת זָ֑רַע וְרָחַ֥ץ בַּמַּ֛יִם אֶת כָּל בְּשָׂר֖וֹ וְטָמֵ֥א עַד הָעָֽרֶב
Haydock's commentary
Evening, whether the action were lawful or not. (Menochius)
Some explain this verse, of nocturnal inconveniences; and ver. 18, of the act of marriage. The latter rendered unclean only in as much as it hindered a person from partaking of any thing sacred, though he might perform the duties of life. (Calmet)
This law was to lay some restraint on the too frequent use of marriage. (Theodoret) (Du Hamel)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.