Leviticus 15
1 The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron:
2 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When a man has a discharge from his body, his discharge is impure.
3 This is how he is impure because of his discharge: whether his body lets the discharge flow or his body is blocked by the discharge, he is impure.
4 Any bed on which the man with the discharge lies will be impure, and any piece of furniture on which he sits will be impure.
5 Anyone who touches his bed must wash their clothes, bathe in water, and remain impure until evening.
6 Anyone who sits on a piece of furniture on which the man with the discharge has sat must wash their clothes, bathe in water, and remain impure until evening.
7 Anyone who touches the body of the man with the discharge must wash their clothes, bathe in water, and remain impure until evening.
8 If the man with the discharge spits on someone who is pure, that person must wash their clothes, bathe in water, and remain impure until evening.’”
9 Any saddle on which the man with the discharge rides will be impure.
10 Anyone who touches anything that was under him will be impure until evening, and anyone who carries those things must wash their clothes, bathe in water, and remain impure until evening.
11 If the man with the discharge touches anyone without first rinsing his hands in water, that person must wash their clothes, bathe in water, and remain impure until evening.’”
12 “‘Any clay vessel that the man with the discharge touches must be broken, and every wooden object must be rinsed with water.
13 When the man with the discharge is cleansed of his discharge, he must count seven days for his purification, wash his clothes, bathe his body in fresh water, and become pure.
14 On the eighth day, he must take two turtledoves or two young pigeons, come before the LORD at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, and give them to the priest.
15 The priest must offer them, one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering. In this way the priest will make atonement for him before the LORD because of his discharge.
16 When a man has an emission of semen, he must bathe his whole body in water and remain impure until evening.
17 Any clothing or leather that has semen on it must be washed with water and will remain impure until evening.
18 When a woman lies with a man and there is an emission of semen, both of them must bathe in water and remain impure until evening.
19 When a woman has a discharge of blood from her body, she will be in her menstrual impurity for seven days, and anyone who touches her will be impure until evening.
20 Anything she lies on during her menstrual impurity will be impure, and anything she sits on will be impure.
21 Anyone who touches her bed must wash their clothes, bathe in water, and remain impure until evening.
22 Anyone who touches any piece of furniture on which she has sat must wash their clothes, bathe in water, and remain impure until evening.’”
23 “‘If anything is on the bed or on the piece of furniture on which she sat, anyone who touches it will be impure until evening.
24 If a man lies with her and her menstrual impurity comes upon him, he will be impure for seven days, and any bed on which he lies will be impure.
25 When a woman has a discharge of blood for many days outside the time of her menstrual period, or when the discharge continues beyond that time, she will be impure throughout all the days of the discharge, as during her menstrual period.
26 Any bed on which she lies throughout the days of her discharge will be like the bed of her menstrual period, and any piece of furniture on which she sits will be impure, as it is during her menstrual impurity.
27 Anyone who touches these things will be impure; they must wash their clothes, bathe in water, and remain impure until evening.
28 When she is cleansed of her discharge, she must count seven days, and then she will be pure.
29 On the eighth day, she must take two turtledoves or two young pigeons and bring them to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
30 The priest must offer one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering. In this way the priest will make atonement for her before the LORD because of her impure discharge.’
31 You must keep the Israelites separate from their impurity, so that they do not die in their impurity by defiling my dwelling among them.
32 This is the instruction concerning a man with a discharge and anyone who has an emission of semen that makes him impure,
33 and concerning a woman in her menstrual impurity, anyone with a discharge, whether man or woman, and a man who lies with an impure woman.”
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