15Leviticus 15

1Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,Select Leviticus 15:1

2“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When any man has a discharge from his body, because of his discharge he is unclean.Select Leviticus 15:2

3This shall be his uncleanness in his discharge: whether his body runs with his discharge, or his body has stopped from his discharge, it is his uncleanness.Select Leviticus 15:3

4“‘Every bed whereon he who has the discharge lies shall be unclean; and everything he sits on shall be unclean.Select Leviticus 15:4

5Whoever touches his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.Select Leviticus 15:5

6He who sits on anything whereon the man who has the discharge sat shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.Select Leviticus 15:6

7“‘He who touches the body of him who has the discharge shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.Select Leviticus 15:7

8“‘If he who has the discharge spits on him who is clean, then he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.Select Leviticus 15:8

9“‘Whatever saddle he who has the discharge rides on shall be unclean.Select Leviticus 15:9

10Whoever touches anything that was under him shall be unclean until the evening. He who carries those things shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.Select Leviticus 15:10

11“‘Whoever he who has the discharge touches, without having rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.Select Leviticus 15:11

12“‘The earthen vessel, which he who has the discharge touches, shall be broken; and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.Select Leviticus 15:12

13“‘When he who has a discharge is cleansed of his discharge, then he shall count to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes; and he shall bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean.Select Leviticus 15:13

14“‘On the eighth day he shall take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and come before Yahweh to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and give them to the priest:Select Leviticus 15:14

15and the priest shall offer them, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering. The priest shall make atonement for him before Yahweh for his discharge.Select Leviticus 15:15

16“‘If any man has an emission of semen, then he shall bathe all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the evening.Select Leviticus 15:16

17Every garment, and every skin, whereon the semen is, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the evening.Select Leviticus 15:17

18If a man lies with a woman and there is an emission of semen, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the evening.Select Leviticus 15:18

19“‘If a woman has a discharge, and her discharge in her flesh is blood, she shall be in her impurity seven days: and whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening.Select Leviticus 15:19

20“‘Everything that she lies on in her impurity shall be unclean. Everything also that she sits on shall be unclean.Select Leviticus 15:20

21Whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.Select Leviticus 15:21

22Whoever touches anything that she sits on shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.Select Leviticus 15:22

23If it is on the bed, or on anything whereon she sits, when he touches it, he shall be unclean until the evening.Select Leviticus 15:23

24“‘If any man lies with her, and her monthly flow is on him, he shall be unclean seven days; and every bed whereon he lies shall be unclean.Select Leviticus 15:24

25“‘If a woman has a discharge of her blood many days not in the time of her period, or if she has a discharge beyond the time of her period; all the days of the discharge of her uncleanness shall be as in the days of her period: she is unclean.Select Leviticus 15:25

26Every bed whereon she lies all the days of her discharge shall be to her as the bed of her period: and everything whereon she sits shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her period.Select Leviticus 15:26

27Whoever touches these things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.Select Leviticus 15:27

28“‘But if she is cleansed of her discharge, then she shall count to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean.Select Leviticus 15:28

29On the eighth day she shall take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and bring them to the priest, to the door of the Tent of Meeting.Select Leviticus 15:29

30The priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make atonement for her before Yahweh for the uncleanness of her discharge.Select Leviticus 15:30

31“‘Thus you shall separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness, so they will not die in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is in their midst.’”Select Leviticus 15:31

32This is the law of him who has a discharge, and of him who has an emission of semen, so that he is unclean thereby;Select Leviticus 15:32

33and of her who has her period, and of a man or woman who has a discharge, and of him who lies with her who is unclean.Select Leviticus 15:33