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Clean, CleannessInsight on the Scriptures, Volume 1
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The Law’s requirements pertaining to the functions of the reproductive organs taught men and women self-discipline, restraint of passions, and respect for God’s means of propagation. The Law’s regulations forcefully reminded creatures of their sinful state; these were not merely health measures to ensure cleanliness or prophylactic safeguards against the spread of diseases. As a reminder of man’s inherited sinfulness, it was fitting that both the male and the female with genital discharges due to normal functions of their bodies observe a period of uncleanness.
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Clean, CleannessInsight on the Scriptures, Volume 1
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If a man had an involuntary emission of semen during the night, he was to bathe and wash his garments and remain unclean until the following evening.
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Clean, CleannessInsight on the Scriptures, Volume 1
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When a man and his wife had intercourse in which there was an emission of semen, they were required to bathe and were unclean until evening. (Le 15:16-18)
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