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“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When any man has a discharge from his body, because of his discharge he is unclean.
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Verse 2. Issue of seed, shall be unclean. These legal uncleannesses were instituted in order to give the people a horror of carnal impurities. Challoner.—If the gonorrhœa, and the lawful act of marriage, (verse 16,) and nocturnal delusions, (Deuteronomy 23:10,) induce a kind of uncleanness—surely to imitate Onan is most detestable, Genesis 28:9. Tirinus.—The Jews rank the latter crime with murder, and so does Tertullian. See Exodus 21:22.
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