Leviticus 12:1-8
What Women Must do After Giving Child Birth
Leviticus 13:1-23
Regulations About Skin Diseases
Leviticus 13:24-46
The Difficulty of Having an Infectious Skin Disease
Leviticus 13:47-59
The Diagnosis of Leprosy.
Leviticus 14:1-32
The Ceremony for People Healed of Leprosy
Leviticus 14:33-57
Cleansing From Mildew
Leviticus 15:1-18
Bodily Discharges From a Man
Leviticus 15:19-33
Bodily Discharges From a Woman
Leviticus 16:1-19
The Scapegoat Offering
Leviticus 16:20-34
Moses Did as The Lord Commanded
Bodily Discharges From a Man
Leviticus 15:1–18
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In this chapter we have reference to certain bodily functions, discharges from the body, which many feel are so personal that it is not proper to read this in public nor to refer to it openly. But I like pastor Ray Stedman’s answer to this when he says: “If this chapter should not be read then it should never have been written.” “Every word of God is pure” (Proverbs 30:5). These bodily functions are absolutely essential to our lives, and there is nothing wrong with them. Let’s examine this chapter where certain normal and even unavoidable discharges from the body are dealt with: First those concerning men, in (vv. 1-18), You can’t read the book of Leviticus without seeing how intimately God is concerned with every minor and trivial detail of our lives.
The Lord told Moses and Aaron to say to the community of Israel (v. 1): Any man with an infected part of his body is unclean (v. 2), whether it is stopped up or keeps dripping (example - diarrhea or runny noses) (v. 3). So for these kinds of discharges a very strict quarantine was imposed upon them (vv. 4-12). Anything that he sits or touches is also unclean (v. 4), and if you touch or carry either these or him, you must wash your clothes and take a bath, but you still remain unclean until evening (vv. 5-11). Any clay pot that he touches must be destroyed, and any wooden bowl that he touches must be washed (v. 12). There is no question but that these restrictions and regulations saved the nation of Israel from many dangerous plagues.
Seven days after the man gets well, he will be considered clean, if he washes his clothes and takes a bath in spring water (v. 13). On the eighth day he must bring either two doves or two pigeons to the front of the sacred tent and give them to a priest (vv. 14-15). The priest will offer one of the birds as a sacrifice for sin and the other as a sacrifice to please the Lord. There was a second type of discharge which was concerned with sexuality, (vv. 16-18): Here we are dealing with married sex. It would be a great mistake to judge from this passage that the Bible suggests in any way that sex in marriage is immoral or wrong.
Application
The Lord controls every aspect of my life, even if I have a drippy nose I need to praise Him.
Leviticus 15:1-18 (English Standard Version)
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