Leviticus 15:16
Ver. 16. 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 De 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.