John Gill's Exposition on Leviticus 15:16

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And if any man’s seed of copulation go out from him, etc.] Not in lawful cohabitation, nor voluntarily, but involuntarily, as Aben Ezra observes; not through any disorder, which came by an accident, or in any criminal way, but through a dream, or any lustful imagination; what is commonly called nocturnal pollution f528; then he shall wash all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the even; and so the Egyptian priests, when it happened that they were defiled by a dream, they immediately purified themselves in a laver f529 so the Jewish priests did when the like happened to them asleep in the temple f530; (see <052310> Deuteronomy 23:10,11).

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