Leviticus 22:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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Is a leper. — The different forms of uncleanness are now specified. (For the leper, see Leviticus 13:3.)

Or hath a running issue. — See Leviticus 15:2.

Whoso toucheth any thing that is unclean by the dead. — That is, if he touches any person or anything that had been defiled through contact with a corpse. (See Numbers 19:11-14.)

Whose seed goeth from him. — This is the same case mentioned in Leviticus 15:16. The two passages ought therefore to be uniform in the translation.

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Leviticus 22:4

4 What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or hath a running issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he be clean. And whoso toucheth any thing that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose seed goeth from him;