This is the law of him who has a discharge, and of him who has an emission of semen, so that he is unclean thereby;
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This is the law of him who has a discharge, and of him who has an emission of semen, so that he is unclean thereby;
This is the law of him that hath an issue, and of him whose seed goeth from him, and is defiled therewith;
This the law of the flowing and of him from whom a layer of seed goes out to become unclean by it
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This is the law of him who has a discharge, and of him who has an emission of semen, so that he is unclean thereby;
This is the law of him who has a discharge, of the man who has an emission of semen whereby he is unclean,
This is the law of him who has a discharge, of the man who has an emission of semen whereby he is unclean,
This is the law of him that hath an issue, and of him whose seed goeth from him, and is defiled therewith;
This is the law of him that hath an issue, and of him whose seed of copulation goeth from him, so that he is unclean thereby;
This is the law of him that hath an issue, and of him whose seed of copulation goeth from him, so that he is unclean thereby;
This is the lawe of him that hath an issue, and of him from whome goeth an issue of seede whereby he is defiled:
This is the law of him that hath the issue of seed, and that is defiled by copulation.
`This `is' the law of him who hath an issue, and of him whose seed of copulation goeth out from him, for uncleanness thereby,
This [is] the law of him who has the discharging, and of him whose seed [from] intercourse goes out from him, to become unclean with it,
These are the regulations for anyone who has a flow of fluid, for any man whose semen goes out of him and makes him unclean,
This the law of the flowing and of him from whom a layer of seed goes out to become unclean by it
This is the law for him that hath a flux, and for the one whose seed of copulation goeth from him, and who is defiled therewith:
This is the law of him who has a discharge, and of him who has an emission of semen, so that he is unclean by it;
This is the law of him that hath an issue, and of him whose seed goeth from him, and he is defiled therewith.
These are the regulations regarding a man who has a discharge, a man who has a release of semen that makes him unclean,
This is the law for the man who has a flow from his body, or whose seed goes from him so that he is unclean;
This is the law of him that hath an issue, and of him from whom the flow of seed goeth out, so that he is unclean thereby;
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is שִׁכְבַת layer H7902 — appearing just 9 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
שִׁכְבַת layer H7902 occurs in 9 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Verb forms
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 25 words from the Hebrew and 26 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 10 Hebrew tokens and 17 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
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זֹ֥את תּוֹרַ֖ת הַזָּ֑ב וַאֲשֶׁ֨ר תֵּצֵ֥א מִמֶּ֛נּוּ שִׁכְבַת זֶ֖רַע לְטָמְאָה בָֽהּ
This is the law of him who has a discharge, and of him who has an emission of semen, so that he is unclean thereby;
World English Bible · Public Domain
οὗτος ὁ νόμος ὁ γονορρυής καί ἐάν τις ἐκἔρχομαι ἐκ αὐτός κοίτη σπέρμα ὥστε μιαίνω ἐν αὐτός
This is the law of the man who has an issue, and if one discharge seed of copulation, so that he should be polluted by it.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
דָא אוֹרַיְתָא דְדוֹבָנָא וְדִי תִפּוֹק מִנֵהּ שִּׁכְבַת זַרְעָא לְאִסְתָּאָבָא בָהּ
(no public-domain English translation for this verse)
Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
דָא גְזֵירַת אַחֲוָיַית דוֹבָנָא וּמִן דְיִפּוֹק מִנֵיהּ שׁוּכְבַת זַרְעָא לְאִיסְתַּאֲבָא בָּהּ
This is the decree of instruction for him who hath a defluxion, and for him whose seed goeth forth and defileth him;
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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Leviticus, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 10 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is shᵉkâbâh (“layer”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Leviticus 15:32 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale Open Resources
Tyndale Open Study Notes — © Tyndale Open Resources, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Keil & Delitzsch
C. F. Keil & F. Delitzsch
Keil & Delitzsch — Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament (1861–1891) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API. (Old Testament only.)
unfoldingWord translationNotes
Door43 World Missions Community
unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.
Rashi
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)
Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.