Discovery BoxLeviticus 15:2 
Context15:2 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘When any man 1 has a discharge 2 from his body, 3 his discharge is unclean.
Leviticus 15:25
Context15:25 “‘When a woman’s discharge of blood flows 4 many days not at the time of her menstruation, or if it flows beyond the time of her menstruation, 5 all the days of her discharge of impurity will be like the days of her menstruation – she is unclean.
1 tn Heb “Man man.” The reduplication is a way of saying “any man” (cf. Lev 17:3; 22:18, etc.; see the distributive repetition of the noun in GKC 395-96 §123.c).
2 tn The term “discharge” actually means “to flow,” whether referring to a full flow as at a spring of water (Ps 78:20 and parallels) or in reference to the promised land as “a land flowing with milk and honey” (Exod 3:8 and parallels).
3 tn Heb “man, man when there is a discharge from his flesh.” The repetition of the word “man” is distributive, meaning “any [or “every”] man” (GKC 395-96 §123.c). It is well-recognized that the term “flesh” (i.e., “body”) in this chapter refers regularly and euphemistically to the male and female genital members or areas of the body (HALOT 164 s.v. בָּשָׂר 5.b; see also, e.g., B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 93). The euphemism has been retained in this translation since it is, in fact, intended in the Hebrew text. Some English versions partially remove the euphemism (e.g., NAB “from his private parts”; NRSV “from his member”) while some remove it completely (e.g., NLT “a genital discharge”; TEV “from his penis”; CEV “with an infected penis”).
4 tn Heb “And a woman when the flow of her blood flows.”
5 tn Heb “in not the time of her menstruation or when it flows on her menstruation.”
