Leviticus 15

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1. 1The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,
2. 2"Tell the people of Israel: When a man has an abnormal bodily discharge, that discharge makes him unclean.
3. 3This is how his discharge makes him unclean — whether it keeps flowing from his body or has stopped up, he remains unclean.
4. 4Any bed the man with the discharge lies on becomes unclean, and anything he sits on becomes unclean.
5. 5Anyone who touches his bed must wash their clothes, bathe in water, and will be unclean until evening.
6. 6Anyone who sits on something the man with the discharge sat on must wash their clothes, bathe in water, and will be unclean until evening.
7. 7Anyone who touches the body of the man with the discharge must wash their clothes, bathe in water, and will be unclean until evening.
8. 8If the man with the discharge spits on someone who is clean, that person must wash their clothes, bathe in water, and will be unclean until evening.
9. 9Any saddle the man with the discharge rides on becomes unclean.
10. 10Anyone who touches anything that was beneath him will be unclean until evening. Anyone who carries any of those items must wash their clothes, bathe in water, and will be unclean until evening.
11. 11If the man with the discharge touches someone without first rinsing his hands in water, that person must wash their clothes, bathe in water, and will be unclean until evening.
12. 12Any clay pot the man with the discharge touches must be smashed. Any wooden container he touches must be rinsed with water.
13. 13When the man is healed of his discharge, he must count off 7 days for his cleansing. Then he must wash his clothes and bathe his body in fresh running water, and he will be clean.
14. 14On the 8th day, he must take 2 turtledoves or 2 young pigeons and come before the LORD at the entrance of the tabernacle, and give them to the priest.
15. 15The priest will sacrifice one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering. In this way, the priest will make atonement for the man before the LORD because of his discharge.
16. 16When a man has an emission of semen, he must bathe his whole body in water and will be unclean until evening.
17. 17Any clothing or leather that the semen gets on must be washed with water and will be unclean until evening.
18. 18When a man lies with a woman and there is an emission of semen, both of them must bathe in water and will be unclean until evening.
19. 19If a woman has a discharge, and her discharge in her flesh is blood, she must be set apart for 7 days. Whoever touches her will be unclean until evening.
20. 20Anything she lies on during her period becomes unclean, and anything she sits on becomes unclean.
21. 21Anyone who touches her bed must wash their clothes, bathe in water, and will be unclean until evening.
22. 22Anyone who touches anything she has sat on must wash their clothes, bathe in water, and will be unclean until evening.
23. 23Whether it's her bed or anything she has been sitting on, whoever touches it will be unclean until evening.
24. 24If a man sleeps with her and her menstrual blood gets on him, he will be unclean for 7 days, and any bed he lies on will become unclean.
25. 25If a woman has a flow of blood for many days outside her regular period, or if her bleeding continues beyond her normal time, she remains unclean for as long as the discharge lasts — just as she would be during her regular period.
26. 26Any bed she lies on during this extended discharge is treated the same as her bed during her period. Anything she sits on becomes unclean, just as it would during her regular period.
27. 27Anyone who touches these things becomes unclean. They must wash their clothes, bathe in water, and will be unclean until evening.
28. 28Once she is healed of her discharge, she must count off 7 days, and after that she will be clean.
29. 29On the 8th day, she must take 2 turtledoves or 2 young pigeons and bring them to the priest at the entrance of the tabernacle.
30. 30The priest will sacrifice 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 unclean discharge.
31. 31You must keep the people of Israel separate from things that make them unclean. Otherwise, they will die in their uncleanness by defiling my tabernacle that stands among them."
32. 32These are the instructions for a man who has an abnormal discharge, or who becomes unclean through an emission of semen,
33. 33and for a woman during her period, and for any man or woman who has a discharge, and for a man who sleeps with a woman who is unclean.