Lev 15.1-33 deals with physical secretions and the loss of fluids that render a person unclean (“tamai” or out of place) and precluding that person from entering the Sanctuary or coming into contact with anything belonging to the Sanctuary (v 31). Only those who are “whole” (no loss) can approach God and enjoy the life he has provided.
Holiness is…
v 1…And the Lord spoke unto Moses and Aaron, saying,
v 2…Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘When a man has a discharge (called in Hebrew a “zav” or a man with a chronic discharge) from his body his discharge (and continues, chronic) is unclean (ritually).
v 3…This, moreover, shall be his uncleanness in his discharge (issue): it is his uncleanness whether his body allows (salivates) its discharge to flow or whether his body obstructs its discharge (stopped up with it; cannot come forth freely).
v 4…Every bed (used by him) on which the person with the discharge lies becomes unclean, and everything on which he sits becomes unclean.
v 5…Anyone, moreover, who touches his bed shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and unclean until evening (these laws allude to the fact that bad company corrupts good morals and even the remotest contact with sin defiles-1 Cor 15.33);
v 6…and whoever sits on the things which the man with the (chronic) discharge (the zav) has been sitting, shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until evening (like guilt by association).
v 7…Also whoever touches the person with the discharge shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean (out of place) until evening.
v 8…Or if the man with the discharge spits on one who is clean (he coughs, phlegm; this alludes to corrupt communication out of the mouth of evil men), he shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until evening.
v 9…And every saddle on which the person with the discharge rides becomes unclean.
v 10…Whoever touches any of the things which were under him shall be unclean until evening, and he who carries them shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until evening.
v 11…Likewise, whomever the one with the discharge touches without having rinsed his hands in water (without having cleaned and washed them) shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until evening.
v 12…However, the earthenware vessel which the person with the discharge touches shall be broken (alludes to the destruction of the rashim) and every wooden vessel (part of the “branch” and a term for the Messiah in Zech 6.11-13) shall be rinsed in water (“born again” and saved, alluding to the elect).
v 13…Now when the man with the discharge (a chronic one) becomes cleansed from his discharge (it stopped), then he shall count off for himself seven days (number of completion) for the cleansing; he shall then wash his clothes and bathe his body in running water (the zav is the only person who requires immersion in spring water) and he shall be clean.
v 14…Then on the eighth day (the number of new beginnings) he shall take for himself two turtledoves or two young pigeons (Messiah from heaven), and come before the Lord to the doorway of the tent of meeting, and give them to the priest;
v 15…and the priest shall offer them, one for a sin offering (for whatever sin that may have caused this) and the other for a burnt offering (to thank God for curing him). So the priest shall make atonement (restore a covering) on his behalf before the Lord because of his discharge.
v 16…Now if a man has a seminal discharge (alludes to the seed of Adam and the flesh; nocturnal emission and not a victim a physical problem; the person is called a “baal keri” or one who has had a seminal emission), he shall bathe all his body in water and be unclean until evening.
v 17…As for any garment or any leather on which there is seminal emission, it shall be washed with water and be unclean until evening.
v 18…If a man lies with a woman so that there is a seminal emission (this eliminates temple prostitutes as in pagan religions), they shall both bathe in water and be unclean until evening.
v 19…When a woman has a discharge (called a “Zavah”), if her discharge in her body is blood (dam), she shall continue in her menstrual impurity (niddah) for seven days, and whoever touches her shall be unclean until evening.
v 20…Everything also on which she lies during her menstruation (niddah) impurity shall be unclean, and everything on which she sits shall be unclean until evening.
v 21…And anyone who touches her bed shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until evening.
v 22…And whoever touches anything on which she sits shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until evening.
v 23…Whether it be on the bed or on the thing on which she is sitting, when he touches it, he shall be unclean until evening.
v 24…And if a man actually lies with her, so that her menstrual impurity is on him, he shall be unclean seven days and every bed on which he lies shall be unclean (this law is very prophetic in that life is in the blood, and in the menstrual process it is flushed out and expelled with the unfertilized eggs, meaning death; the body is like Eden and because Adam (blood of God) sinned and he died and was “unfertilized” spiritually, and was expelled from Eden for seven days, or 7000 years; that is why a person who is unclean could not enter the Sanctuary which was considered a “miniature Eden”).
v 25…Now if a woman has a discharge (zav) of her blood many days not at the period of he menstrual impurity (a chronic impurity like the woman in Matt 9.20), or if she has a discharge beyond that period, all the days of her impure discharge (tamaiatah) she shall continue as though in her menstrual impurity; she is unclean (tamai, and cannot enter the Sanctuary or touch things there).
v 26…Any bed on which she lies all the days of her discharge (zavah) shall be to her like her bed at menstruation, and everything on which she sits shall be unclean, like her uncleanness at that time.
v 27…LIkewise, whoever touches them shall be unclean and shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until evening.
v 28…When she becomes clean from her discharge, she shall count off for herself seven days and afterward she shall be clean.
v 29…Then on the eighth day (a new beginning) she shall take for herself two turtledoves or two young pigeons, and bring them in to the priest, to the doorway of the tent of meeting.
v 30…And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. So the priest shall make atonement (restore a covering) on her behalf before the Lord because of her impure discharge (alludes to atonement being needed because of the corruption of human nature).
v 31…Thus you shall keep the sons of Israel separated from their uncleanness, lest they die in their uncleanness by defiling my tabernacle (Mishkan and later the Temple, which were a “miniature Eden”) that is among them.
v 32…This is the law (Torah/instruction) for the one with a discharge (zav), and for the man who has a seminal emission so that he is unclean by it;
v 33…and for the woman who is ill because of her menstrual impurity (niddah), and for the one who has a discharge, whether a male or female, or a man who lies with an unclean woman (in the chapters we have been studying one may ask why a person needs to bring a sin offering if she gives birth, or one has a chronic issue. It’s because these ceremonies teach us that one must present Yeshua as the sin offering so that we can enter the sanctuary or the assembly and come into the presence of Yehovah; God uses ceremonies to teach us about the redemption, the Messiah, kedusha and every concept you can think of. When people failed to learn these things, then the korbanot became brutal and that is why God spoke against these ceremonies at times, so they had to be administered is an almost perfect atmosphere).”
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