Holy Scripture

Leviticus 15:5

A church father on this verse
“The washing which is common to all persons is that of the baths, which usually cleanses away the filth of the body. There is also the washing of the Jews, which is more solemn than that of the baths but much inferior to the bath of grace. While this [baptismal] bath cleanses bodily filth, it does not merely remove the…”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — BAPTISMAL INSTRUCTIONS 9.13

Source: Septuagint

Original

5And the man who shall touch his bed, shall wash his garments, and bathe himself in water, and shall be unclean till evening.

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3And this is the law of his uncleanness; whoever has a gonorrhea out of his body, this is his uncleanness in him by reason of the issue, by which his body is affected through the issue: all the days of the issue of his body, by which his body is affected through the issue, there is his uncleanness.

4Every bed on which he that has the issue shall happen to lie, is unclean; and every seat on which he that has the issue may happen to sit, shall be unclean.

— Leviticus 15:5 —

6And whosoever sits on the seat on which he that has the issue may have sat, shall wash his garments, and bathe himself in water, and shall be unclean until evening.

7And he that touches the skin of him that has the issue, shall wash his garments and bathe himself in water, and shall be unclean till evening.

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