When a man has an emission of semen, he must bathe his whole body with water, and he will be unclean till evening. The ordinary male discharge — the emission of semen — creates a brief, self-resolving impurity: bathing and until-evening duration. The ordinary discharge requires only the personal bathing, not the cloth-washing of contact with the unusual discharge's secondary impurity. The minimal impurity of the ordinary discharge communicates the system's differentiation between the pathological (unusual discharge) and the normal (ordinary emission): normal bodily function creates manageable, brief impurity.

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