Leviticus 15

¹ Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron and said:

² 'Speak to the Israelites and say to them: "When a man has a discharge from his body, that dischargeis unclean.

³ While the discharge continues, the nature of his uncleanness is as fol ows: "Whether his body al owsthe discharge to flow or whether it retains it, he is unclean.

⁴ "Any bed the man lies on and anything he sits on wil be unclean.

⁵ "Anyone who touches his bed must wash clothing and body and will be unclean until evening.

⁶ "Anyone who sits where the man has sat must wash clothing and body and will be unclean untilevening.

⁷ "Anyone who touches the body of the man with the discharge must wash clothing and body and wil beunclean until evening.

⁸ "If the man with the discharge spits on someone who is clean, that person must wash clothing andbody and wil be unclean until evening.

⁹ "Any saddle the man has ridden on wil be unclean.

¹⁰ "Al those who touch any object that has been under him wil be unclean until evening. "Anyone whopicks up such an object must wash clothing and body and wil be unclean until evening.

¹¹ "Al those whom the man with the discharge touches without having washed his hands must washclothing and body and wil be unclean until evening.

¹² "The earthenware vessel he touches must be broken and any wooden utensil must be rinsed.

¹³ "Once the man with the discharge is cured, he will al ow seven days for his purification. He wil washhis clothes and wash his body in running water and he wil be clean.

¹⁴ On the eighth day he wil take two turtledoves or two young pigeons and come before Yahweh at theentrance to the Tent of Meeting and give them to the priest.

¹⁵ The priest wil offer one of them as a sacrifice for sin and the other as a burnt offering. And in this waythe priest wil perform the rite of expiation for him before Yahweh for his discharge.

¹⁶ "When a man has a seminal discharge, he must wash his whole body with water and wil be uncleanuntil evening.

¹⁷ Any clothing or leather touched by the seminal discharge must be washed and wil be unclean untilevening.

¹⁸ When a woman has had intercourse with a man, both of them must wash and wil be unclean untilevening.

¹⁹ "Whenever a woman has a discharge and the discharge from her body is of blood, she wil remain ina state of menstrual pol ution for seven days. "Anyone who touches her wil be unclean until evening.

²⁰ "Anything she lies on in this pol uted state will be unclean; anything she sits on wil be unclean.

²¹ "Anyone who touches her bed must wash clothing and body and wil be unclean until evening.

²² "Anyone who touches anything she has sat on must wash clothing and body and will be unclean untilevening.

²³ If there is anything on the bed or where she is sitting, anyone who touches it wil be unclean untilevening.

²⁴ "If a man goes so far as to sleep with her, he wil contract her menstrual pollution and will be uncleanfor seven days. Any bed he lies on wil be unclean.

²⁵ "If a woman has a prolonged discharge of blood outside the period, or if the period is prolonged,during the time this discharge lasts she wil be in the same state of uncleanness as during her monthly periods.

²⁶ Any bed she lies on during the time this discharge lasts will be pol uted in the same way as the bedshe lies on during her monthly periods. Anything she sits on wil be unclean as during her monthly periods.

²⁷ Anyone who touches it wil be unclean and must wash clothing and body and will be unclean untilevening.

²⁸ "Once she is cured of her discharge, she will allow seven days to go by; after that she will be clean.

²⁹ On the eighth day she wil take two turtledoves or two young pigeons and bring them to the priest atthe entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

³⁰ The priest wil offer one of them as a sacrifice for sin and the other as a burnt offering. And in this waythe priest wil perform the rite of expiation for her before Yahweh for the discharge which made her unclean.

³¹ "Hence you will warn the Israelites against contracting a state of uncleanness, rather than incurringdeath by defiling my Dwel ing which is among them.

³² "Such is the law governing a man with a discharge or who is made unclean by a seminal discharge,

³³ a woman in a state of pol ution due to menstruation, a man or a woman with a discharge, or a manwho sleeps with a woman when she is unclean." '