Anyone who touches something that is touched by the unclean person also becomes impure. Anyone who or anything touched by the unclean one is also unclean. Thought is of gonorrhea, a venereal disease, or diarrhea. The discharge in question here does not seem to indicate a seminal emission, because it is mentioned separately in verse 16. We realize that the Lord Jesus would not have spoken or acted like that.ġ The LORD also spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,Ģ “Speak to the sons of Israel, and say to them, ‘When any man has a discharge from his body, his discharge is unclean.ģ This, moreover, shall be his uncleanness in his discharge: it is his uncleanness whether his body allows its discharge to flow or whether his body obstructs its discharge.Ĥ Every bed on which the person with the discharge lies becomes unclean, and everything on which he sits becomes unclean.ĥ Anyone, moreover, who touches his bed shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until evening Ħ and whoever sits on the thing on which the man with the discharge has been sitting, shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until evening.ħ Also whoever touches the person with the discharge shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until evening.Ĩ Or if the man with the discharge spits on one who is clean, he too shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until evening.ĩ Every saddle on which the person with the discharge rides becomes unclean.ġ0 Whoever then touches any of the things which were under him shall be unclean until evening, and he who carries them shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until evening.ġ1 Likewise, whomever the one with the discharge touches without having rinsed his hands in water shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until evening.ġ2 However, an earthenware vessel which the person with the discharge touches shall be broken, and every wooden vessel shall be rinsed in water. They originate spontaneously from us, we can’t do anything about it, but we often feel immediately thereafter that it didn’t come from the new life. The lesson we can learn from this chapter is that there are things we say or do, without the intention of hurting anyone, but which still have a wrong effect. Discharges defile precisely because they originate from the nature of man who has fallen into sin. These are discharges such as nocturnal ejaculation, monthly menstruation and other discharges that, like a giving birth in Leviticus 12, are related to human nature. It is a discharge that comes from a human being, without even committing a sin. A discharge is something that happens involuntarily, without intent. Leprosy is sin, and therefore defilement, through one’s own will.
However, there is a big difference between the defilement discussed in this chapter and defilement caused by leprosy. As with the leper, this chapter is about defilement.
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