Leviticus 15:1-18
When any man has an unusual bodily discharge, such a discharge is unclean. Whether it continues flowing from his body or is blocked, it will make him unclean.
Whoever sits on anything that the man with a discharge sat on must wash their clothes and bathe with water, and they will be unclean till evening. Whoever touches the man who has a discharge must wash their clothes and bathe with water, and they will be unclean till evening.
When a man is cleansed from his discharge, he is to count off seven days for his ceremonial cleansing; he must wash his clothes and bathe himself with fresh water, and he will be clean. On the eighth day he must take two doves or two young pigeons and come before the Lord to the entrance to the tent of meeting and give them to the priest. The priest is to sacrifice them, the one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. In this way he will make atonement before the Lord for the man because of his discharge.
When a man has an emission of semen, he must bathe his whole body with water, and he will be unclean till evening.
When a man has sexual relations with a woman and there is an emission of semen, both of them must bathe with water, and they will be unclean till evening.
Regulations are given for both normal (seminal and menstrual) and abnormal, possibly malignant, discharges. Washing is prescribed both to prevent infection and to sterilize.
Clean and unclean: The male ejection of semen, and female menstruation, rendered a man or woman ritually unclean.
Why?
Man's discharge is one of disease, maybe is a sexual disease caused by unusual sexual activity. So it is unclean, and it is unclean before the Lord.
Seminal is unclean to a man, include the mind relative to the sex, so it is unclean. So we have to face a formal sexual relationship. For our body belongs to the Lord.
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私密的漏症，夢遺、月經，都是生命的流出，象徵罪所帶出的結果。這個只有自己知道，祭司不會查。但是自己不能裝作不知道。代表人要有自省的能力。
患漏症所帶出來的影響，凡是接觸到的東西、人，都是不潔淨。好像現在的無社交距離。告訴我們罪的影響力很大，即使沒有接觸到，飛沫也會傳染。即使犯隱密的罪，外表看出來，也會影響我們自己及周圍的人。似乎神不知鬼不覺，影響力仍然存在於生活中每個細節。
間接碰到的比較簡單，當天洗衣、洗澡就好了。患者自我隔離，重新調整，重新開始。
夢遺，同房本來是自然現象，就是一個再怎麼健康、怎麼謹慎小心也會沾染不潔淨，象徵人都是罪人，沒有一個人可以說沒有罪。我們都要謹慎，並且謙卑下來。我們讀聖經是為自己讀，是自己的鏡子，不是用來指出別人的錯。聖經讓我們現出原形。
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How?
Our body belongs to the Lord so we have to keep it clean and ready to serve the Lord.
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