What happensPermalink
Laws about uncleanness expanded to any bodily discharge, not just blood as in previous laws. Rules deal with diseased discharges, healthy discharges (semen and menstruation), and sexual intercourse.
Why it mattersPermalink
The loss of life from the body, whether from semen or blood, makes a person unclean; it does not make the person morally corrupt. In any case, the unclean must be kept away from the clean until it has been cleansed by time, bathing, and sacrifice.
Key versePermalink
This is the law for him who has a discharge and for him who has an emission of semen, becoming unclean thereby…