Leviticus 15

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The Uncleanness of Men

¹And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,

¹And YHWH spoke unto Moses and to Aaron, saying,

²“Say to the Israelites, ‘When any man has a bodily discharge, the discharge is unclean.

²“Speak to the sons of Israel, and you shall say to them, ‘Any man—when there is a discharge from his flesh his discharge—it is unclean.

³This uncleanness is from his discharge, whether his body allows the discharge to flow or blocks it. So his discharge will bring about uncleanness.

³And this shall be his uncleanness in regard to his discharge—whether his flesh runs with his discharge, or his flesh is stopped up from his discharge; it is his uncleanness.

⁴Any bed on which the man with the discharge lies will be unclean, and any furniture on which he sits will be unclean.

⁴Every bed on which the one discharging lies is unclean, and every vessel that he sits on shall be unclean.

⁵Anyone who touches his bed must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.

⁵And a man that touches his bed shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe in the water, and he shall be unclean until the evening.

⁶Whoever sits on furniture on which the man with the discharge was sitting must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.

⁶And the one sitting on the vessel on which the one discharging sits shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe in the water, and he shall be unclean until the evening.

⁷Whoever touches the body of the man with a discharge must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.

⁷And the one touching the flesh of the one discharging shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe in the water, and he shall be unclean until the evening.

⁸If the man with the discharge spits on one who is clean, that person must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.

⁸And if the one discharging spits on one who is clean, then he shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe in the water, and he shall be unclean until the evening.

⁹Any saddle on which the man with the discharge rides will be unclean.

⁹And any saddle on which the one discharging rides shall be unclean.

¹⁰Whoever touches anything that was under him will be unclean until evening, and whoever carries such things must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.

¹⁰And anyone who touches anything that was under him shall be unclean until the evening, and the one carrying them shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe in the water, and he shall be unclean until the evening.

¹¹If the man with the discharge touches anyone without first rinsing his hands with water, the one who was touched must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.

¹¹And all who touch against the one discharging, and his hands he has not rinsed in the water, then he shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe in the water, and he shall be unclean until the evening.

¹²Any clay pot that the man with the discharge touches must be broken, and any wooden utensil must be rinsed with water.

¹²And the earthen vessel that the one discharging touches, shall be broken, and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in the water.

The Cleansing of Men

¹³When the man has been cleansed from his discharge, he must count off seven days for his cleansing, wash his clothes, and bathe himself in fresh water,^a and he shall be clean.

¹³And when the one discharging is clean from his discharge, then he shall count for himself seven days for his cleansing, and he shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in living water, and he shall be clean.

¹⁴On the eighth day he is to take two turtledoves or two young pigeons, come before the LORD at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, and give them to the priest.

¹⁴And on the eighth day he shall take for himself two turtledoves or two sons of a pigeon, and he shall come before the face of YHWH to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and he shall give them to the priest.

¹⁵The priest is to sacrifice them, 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.

¹⁵And the priest shall do them, one as a sin offering and the one as a burnt offering; and the priest shall make atonement upon him before the face of YHWH from his discharge.

¹⁶When a man has an emission of semen, he must bathe his whole body with water, and he will be unclean until evening.

¹⁶And if a man’s seed from lying goes out from him, then he shall wash in the water all his flesh, and he shall be unclean until the evening.

¹⁷Any clothing or leather on which there is an emission of semen must be washed with water, and it will remain unclean until evening.

¹⁷And every garment and every skin on which there is seed from lying, it shall be washed with the water, and it shall be unclean until the evening.

¹⁸If a man lies with a woman and there is an emission of semen, both must bathe with water, and they will remain unclean until evening.

¹⁸And a woman that a man lies with, and there is seed from lying, then they shall bathe in the water, and they be unclean until the evening.

The Uncleanness of Women

¹⁹When a woman has a discharge consisting of blood from her body, she will be unclean due to her menstruation for seven days, and anyone who touches her will be unclean until evening.

¹⁹And a woman—when she is discharging, her discharge consisting of blood from her flesh, she shall be in her menstruation seven days, and anyone who touches her shall be unclean until the evening.

²⁰Anything on which she lies or sits during her menstruation will be unclean,

²⁰And everything on which she lies in her menstruation shall be unclean, and everything on which she sits shall be unclean.

²¹and anyone who touches her bed must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.

²¹And anyone who touches her bed shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe in the water, and he shall be unclean until the evening.

²²Whoever touches any furniture on which she was sitting must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.

²²And anyone who touches any vessel on which she sits shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe in the water, and he shall be unclean until the evening.

²³And whether it is a bed or furniture on which she was sitting, whoever touches it will be unclean until evening.

²³And if it is on the bed, or on the vessel that she sits upon, in his touching it he shall be unclean until the evening.

²⁴If a man lies with her and her menstrual flow touches him, he will be unclean for seven days, and any bed on which he lies will become unclean.

²⁴And if any man really lies with her, and her menstruation is on him, then he shall be unclean seven days; and every bed that he lies upon shall be unclean.

²⁵When a woman has a discharge of her blood for many days at a time other than her menstrual period, or if it continues beyond her period, she will be unclean all the days of her unclean discharge, just as she is during the days of her menstruation.

²⁵And a woman—when her discharge is a discharge of her blood for many days, not in the time of her menstruation, or if she discharges beyond her menstruation, all the days of the discharge of her uncleanness shall be like the days of her menstruation; she is unclean.

²⁶Any bed on which she lies or any furniture on which she sits during the days of her discharge will be unclean, like her bed during her menstrual period.

²⁶Every bed on which she lies all the days of her discharge shall be to her like the bed of her menstruation, and every vessel on which she sits shall be unclean like the uncleanness of her menstruation.

²⁷Anyone who touches these things will be unclean; he must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.

²⁷And anyone who touches them shall be unclean, and he shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe in the water, and he shall be unclean until the evening.

The Cleansing of Women

²⁸When a woman is cleansed of her discharge, she must count off seven days, and after that she will be ceremonially clean.

²⁸And if she is clean from her discharge, then she shall count for herself seven days, and afterward she shall be clean.

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

²⁹And on the eighth day she shall take for herself two turtledoves or two sons of a pigeon, and she shall bring them to the priest, to the door of the Tent of Meeting.

³⁰The priest is to 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 for her unclean discharge.

³⁰And the priest shall do the one as a sin offering and the one as a burnt offering, and the priest shall make atonement upon her before the face of YHWH from the discharge of her uncleanness.

³¹You must keep the children of Israel separate from their uncleanness, so that they do not die by defiling My tabernacle, which is among them.

³¹And you shall separate the sons of Israel from their uncleanness, and they shall not die in their uncleanness when they defile My tabernacle that is in their midst.

³²This is the law of him who has a discharge, of the man who has an emission of semen whereby he is unclean,

³²This is the law of the one discharging, and of the one whose seed from lying goes from him, to be unclean by it,

³³of a woman in her menstrual period, of any male or female who has a discharge, and of a man who lies with an unclean woman.’”

³³and the menstruating woman in her menstruation, and the one discharging his discharge, for the male and for the female, and for a man who lies with an unclean woman.’”