Lev 15:13-15 | KingComments | STEP | There are two forms of cleansing: 1. Cleansing of someone or what has become unclean by contact, either of the discharge or of what has become unclean by contact with the discharge. This has been dealt with in the previous verses ( ). 2. Cleansing of him who has the discharge and is therefore unclean. This is dealt with in the abovementioned verses ( ). In the cleansing of the one who has the discharge, offerings are brought. It presents the work of the Lord Jesus as the means of atonement. We see that He was the sin offering and the burnt offering. The defilement has been removed. There is no investigation by the priest, as with the leper. It is not a public evil. If the discharge has stopped, a period of cleansing follows. It takes seven days. On the seventh day he must wash his clothes and bathe his body. On the eighth day two pigeons are offered as offerings. This happens at the tent of meeting, by the priest. Our whole behavior influences the meeting. Therefore, we should always as priests examine ourselves whether a discharge has occurred, or whether we have been in contact with someone who has a discharge, through which things have crept into our speaking and behavior that are not suitable for God’s presence. We may then think of the offering of the Lord Jesus, Who was made a sin offering, and at the same time as a burnt offering was God’s perfect pleasure.

‏ Leviticus 15:13-15

Cleansing a Man From a Discharge

There are two forms of cleansing:

1. Cleansing of someone or what has become unclean by contact, either of the discharge or of what has become unclean by contact with the discharge. This has been dealt with in the previous verses (Lev 15:1-12).

2. Cleansing of him who has the discharge and is therefore unclean. This is dealt with in the abovementioned verses (Lev 15:13-15).

In the cleansing of the one who has the discharge, offerings are brought. It presents the work of the Lord Jesus as the means of atonement. We see that He was the sin offering and the burnt offering. The defilement has been removed. There is no investigation by the priest, as with the leper. It is not a public evil.

If the discharge has stopped, a period of cleansing follows. It takes seven days. On the seventh day he must wash his clothes and bathe his body. On the eighth day two pigeons are offered as offerings. This happens at the tent of meeting, by the priest.

Our whole behavior influences the meeting. Therefore, we should always as priests examine ourselves whether a discharge has occurred, or whether we have been in contact with someone who has a discharge, through which things have crept into our speaking and behavior that are not suitable for God’s presence. We may then think of the offering of the Lord Jesus, Who was made a sin offering, and at the same time as a burnt offering was God’s perfect pleasure.