Leviticus
15
- The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
- "Speak to the Israelites and say to
them: 'When any man has a bodily discharge, the discharge is unclean.
- Whether it continues flowing from his body
or is blocked, it will make him unclean. This is how his discharge will bring
about uncleanness:
- "'Any bed the man with a discharge
lies on will be unclean, and anything he sits on will be unclean.
- Anyone who touches his bed must wash his
clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean till evening.
- Whoever sits on anything that the man with
a discharge sat on must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will
be unclean till evening.
- "'Whoever touches the man who has a
discharge must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean
till evening.
- "'If the man with the discharge spits
on someone who is clean, that person must wash his clothes and bathe with
water, and he will be unclean till evening.
- "'Everything the man sits on when riding
will be unclean,
- and whoever touches any of the things that
were under him will be unclean till evening; whoever picks up those things
must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean till evening.
- "'Anyone the man with a discharge touches
without rinsing his hands with water must wash his clothes and bathe with
water, and he will be unclean till evening.
- "'A clay pot that the man touches must
be broken, and any wooden article is to be rinsed with water.
- "'When a man is cleansed from his discharge,
he is to count off seven days for his ceremonial cleansing; he must wash his
clothes and bathe himself with fresh water, and he will be clean.
- On the eighth day he must take two doves
or two young pigeons and come before the LORD to the entrance to the Tent
of Meeting and give them to the priest.
- The priest is to sacrifice them, the one
for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. In this way he will
make atonement before the LORD for the man because of his discharge.
- "'When a man has an emission of semen,
he must bathe his whole body with water, and he will be unclean till evening.
- Any clothing or leather that has semen on
it must be washed with water, and it will be unclean till evening.
- When a man lies with a woman and there is
an emission of semen, both must bathe with water, and they will be unclean
till evening.
- "'When a woman has her regular flow
of blood, the impurity of her monthly period will last seven days, and anyone
who touches her will be unclean till evening.
- "'Anything she lies on during her period
will be unclean, and anything she sits on will be unclean.
- Whoever touches her bed must wash his clothes
and bathe with water, and he will be unclean till evening.
- Whoever touches anything she sits on must
wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean till evening.
- Whether it is the bed or anything she was
sitting on, when anyone touches it, he will be unclean till evening.
- "'If a man lies with her and her monthly
flow touches him, he will be unclean for seven days; any bed he lies on will
be unclean.
- "'When a woman has a discharge of blood
for many days at a time other than her monthly period or has a discharge that
continues beyond her period, she will be unclean as long as she has the discharge,
just as in the days of her period.
- Any bed she lies on while her discharge
continues will be unclean, as is her bed during her monthly period, and anything
she sits on will be unclean, as during her period.
- Whoever touches them will be unclean; he
must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean till evening.
- "'When she is cleansed from her discharge,
she must count off seven days, and after that she will be ceremonially clean.
- On the eighth day she must take two doves
or two young pigeons and bring them to the priest at the entrance to the Tent
of Meeting.
- The priest is to sacrifice one for a sin
offering and the other for a burnt offering. In this way he will make atonement
for her before the LORD for the uncleanness of her discharge.
- "'You must keep the Israelites separate
from things that make them unclean, so they will not die in their uncleanness
for defiling my dwelling place, which is among them.'"
- These are the regulations for a man with
a discharge, for anyone made unclean by an emission of semen,
- for a woman in her monthly period, for a
man or a woman with a discharge, and for a man who lies with a woman who is
ceremonially unclean.
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