32 This is the law for someone with a discharge: a man who has an emission of semen, becoming unclean by it;

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32 These are the regulations for a man with a discharge, for anyone made unclean by an emission of semen,(A)

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20 “If a man has sexual intercourse with a woman who is a slave designated for another man, but she has not been redeemed(A) or given her freedom, there must be punishment.[a] They are not to be put to death, because she had not been freed.

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  1. 19:20 Or compensation

20 “‘If a man sleeps with a female slave who is promised to another man(A) but who has not been ransomed or given her freedom, there must be due punishment.[a] Yet they are not to be put to death, because she had not been freed.

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  1. Leviticus 19:20 Or be an inquiry

No man of Aaron’s descendants who has a skin disease[a] or a discharge is to eat from the holy offerings until he is clean. Whoever touches anything made unclean by a dead person or by a man who has an emission of semen,

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  1. 22:4 Or has leprosy or scale disease

“‘If a descendant of Aaron has a defiling skin disease[a] or a bodily discharge,(A) he may not eat the sacred offerings until he is cleansed. He will also be unclean if he touches something defiled by a corpse(B) or by anyone who has an emission of semen,

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  1. Leviticus 22:4 The Hebrew word for defiling skin disease, traditionally translated “leprosy,” was used for various diseases affecting the skin.

13 and sleeps with another,[a] but it is concealed from her husband, and she is undetected, even though she has defiled herself, since there is no witness against her, and she wasn’t caught in the act;

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  1. 5:13 Lit and man lies with her and has an emission of semen

13 so that another man has sexual relations with her,(A) and this is hidden from her husband and her impurity is undetected (since there is no witness against her and she has not been caught in the act),

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