Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When any man has a discharge out of his flesh, because of his discharge he is unclean.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
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 gonorrhoea, and the lawful act of marriage, (ver. 16,) and nocturnal delusions, (Deuteronomy xxiii. 10,) induce a kind of uncleanness
surely to imitate Onan is most detestable, Genesis xxviii. 9. (Tirinus)
The Jews rank the latter crime with murder, and so does Tertullian. See Exodus xxi. 22.
