John Gill Commentary Leviticus 15:2

"Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When any man hath an issue out of his flesh, because of his issue he is unclean." — Leviticus 15:2 (ASV)

Speak unto the children of Israel
From which we learn, says the above mentioned writer, that these uncleannesses were only usual among the children of Israel, not among the Gentiles; that is, the laws respecting them were only binding on the one, and not on the other ^F19 :

and say unto them, when any man ;
in the Hebrew text it is, "a man, a man", which the Targum of Jonathan paraphrases, a young man, and an old man:

has a running issue out of his flesh ;
what physicians call a "gonorrhoea", and we, as in the margin of our Bibles, "the running of the reins":

[because of] his issue, he is unclean ;
in a ceremonial sense, though it arises from a natural cause; but if not from any criminal one, from a debauch, but from a strain, or some such like thing, the man was not defiled, otherwise he was; the Targum of Jonathan is,

``if he sees it three times he is unclean;'' so the Misnah ^F20 .

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FOOTNOTES:

• F19: So Maimon. & Bartenora in Misn. Edaiot, c. 5. sect. 1.
• F20: Zabim, c. 1. sect. 1. Maimon. & Bartenora in ib.