Leviticus 15

The Law Concerning Bodily Discharges

15And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, ²“Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ^a‘When any man has a discharge from his body, his discharge is unclean. ³And this shall be his uncleanness in regard to his discharge—whether his body runs with his discharge, or his body is stopped up by his discharge, it is his uncleanness. ⁴Every bed is ¹unclean on which he who has the discharge lies, and everything on which he sits shall be unclean. ⁵And whoever ^btouches his bed shall ^cwash his clothes and ^dbathe in water, and be unclean until evening. ⁶He who sits on anything on which he who has the ^edischarge sat shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening. ⁷And he who touches the body of him who has the discharge shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening. ⁸If he who has the discharge ^fspits on him who is clean, then he shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening. ⁹Any saddle on which he who has the discharge rides shall be unclean. ¹⁰Whoever touches anything that was under him shall be unclean until evening. He who carries any of those things shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening. ¹¹And whomever the one who has the discharge touches, and has not rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening. ¹²The ^gvessel of earth that he who has the discharge touches shall be broken, and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.

¹³‘And when he who has a discharge is cleansed of his discharge, then ^hhe shall count for himself seven days for his cleansing, wash his clothes, and bathe his body in running water; then he shall be clean. ¹⁴On the eighth day he shall take for himself ⁱtwo turtledoves or two young pigeons, and come before the Lord, to the door of the tabernacle of meeting, and give them to the priest. ¹⁵Then the priest shall offer them, ^jthe one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering. ^kSo the priest shall make ²atonement for him before the Lord because of his discharge.

^16l‘If any man has an emission of semen, then he shall wash all his body in water, and be unclean until evening. ¹⁷And any garment and any leather on which there is semen, it shall be washed with water, and be unclean until evening. ¹⁸Also, when a woman lies with a man, and there is an emission of semen, they shall bathe in water, and ^mbe unclean until evening.

¹⁹ⁿ‘If a woman has a discharge, and the discharge from her body is blood, she shall be ³set apart seven days; and whoever touches her shall be unclean until evening. ²⁰Everything that she lies on during her impurity shall be unclean; also everything that she sits on shall be unclean. ²¹Whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening. ²²And whoever touches anything that she sat on shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening. ²³If anything is on her bed or on anything on which she sits, when he touches it, he shall be unclean until evening. ²⁴And ^oif any man lies with her at all, so that her impurity is on him, he shall be ⁴unclean seven days; and every bed on which he lies shall be unclean.

²⁵‘If ^pa woman has a discharge of blood for many days, other than at the time of her customary impurity, or if it runs beyond her usual time of impurity, all the days of her unclean discharge shall be as the days of her customary impurity. She shall be unclean. ²⁶Every bed on which she lies all the days of her discharge shall be to her as the bed of her impurity; and whatever she sits on shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her impurity. ²⁷Whoever touches those things shall be unclean; he shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

²⁸‘But ^qif she is cleansed of her discharge, then she shall count for herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean. ²⁹And on the eighth day she shall take for herself two turtledoves or two young pigeons, and bring them to the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of meeting. ³⁰Then the priest shall offer the one as a sin offering and the other as a ^rburnt offering, and the priest shall make atonement for her before the Lord for the discharge of her uncleanness.

³¹‘Thus you shall ^sseparate the children of Israel from their uncleanness, lest they die in their uncleanness when they ^tdefile My tabernacle that is among them. ^32uThis is the law for one who has a discharge, ^vand for him who emits semen and is unclean thereby, ^33wand for her who is indisposed because of her customary impurity, and for one who has a discharge, either man ^xor woman, ^yand for him who lies with her who is unclean.’ ”