And if any man's seed of copulation go out from him, then he shall wash all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the even.

And if any man's seed of copulation go out from him, then he shall bathe all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the even.

The man from whom the seed of copulation goeth out, shall wash all his body with water: and he shall be unclean until the evening.

'And when a man's seed of copulation goeth out from him, then he hath bathed with water all his flesh, and been unclean till the evening.

And if a man's seed goes out from him, then all his body will have to be bathed in water and he will be unclean till evening.

And if the flow of seed go out from a man, then he shall bathe all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the even.

A man from whom the seed of sexual intercourse goes out shall wash his entire body with water, and he shall be unclean until evening.

Quum autem ex aliquo egressa fuerit effusio seminis, lavabit aqua totam carnem suam: immundusque erit usque ad vesperam.

Most of the ancient religions made a similar recognition of impurity and of the need of purfication.

And if any man's seed of copulation go out from him, then he shall wash all his (f) flesh in water, and be unclean until the even.
(f) Meaning, all his body.

And if any man's seed of copulation go out from him,.... 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 (c):
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 (d) so the Jewish priests did when the like happened to them asleep in the temple (e); see Deuteronomy 23:10.
(c) "----& noctem flumine purgas." Pers. Satyr. 2. (d) Chaeremon. apud Porphyr. de Abstinentia, l. 4. c. 7. (e) Misn. Tamid. c. 1. sect. 1.

Involuntary emission of seed. - This defiled for the whole of the day, not only the man himself, but any garment or skin upon which any of it had come, and required for purification that the whole body should be bathed, and the polluted things washed.