Polyglot Bible: Leviticus: Leviticus 15

This is a scholarly parallel-text presentation of Leviticus 15, displayed in three columns: the King James Version (KJV) in English, the Septuagint (LXX) in ancient Greek, and the Masoretic Text (Tanakh) in Hebrew. The chapter consists of Mosaic law dictating ritual purity regulations concerning bodily discharges, delivered by God to Moses and Aaron for transmission to the Israelites. It covers male genital discharges (both pathological and seminal), female menstruation, and prolonged abnormal female bleeding, specifying in each case which persons, objects, and surfaces become ritually unclean through contact, and for how long. Purification procedures are detailed throughout: the standard remedy is washing clothes, bathing in water, and remaining unclean until evening, while full cleansing after a discharge has ceased requires a seven-day waiting period followed by an eighth-day priestly sacrifice of two birds (one as sin offering, one as burnt offering) for atonement. The text's closing rationale is notably explicit — these laws exist to prevent Israelites from defiling the tabernacle dwelling among them, which would bring death upon them.

Polyglot Bible: Leviticus: Leviticus 15

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