1 The LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron,
saying,
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.
3 This 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.
4 “ ‘Every bed on which he who has the
discharge lies shall be unclean; and everything
he sits on shall be unclean.
5 Whoever touches his bed shall wash his
clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be
unclean until the evening.
6 He who sits on anything on which the
man who has the discharge sat shall wash
his clothes, and bathe himself in water,
and be unclean until the evening.
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.
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.
9 “ ‘Whatever saddle he who has the discharge
rides on shall be unclean.
10 Whoever 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.
11 “ ‘Whomever 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.
12 “ ‘The earthen vessel, which he who
has the discharge touches, shall be broken;
and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in
water.
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.
14 “ ‘On the eighth day he shall take two
turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and
come before the LORD to the door of the
Tent of Meeting, and give them to the
priest.
15 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 the LORD for his discharge.
16 “ ‘If any man has an emission of semen,
then he shall bathe all his flesh in
water, and be unclean until the evening.
17 Every garment and every skin which
the semen is on shall be washed with water,
and be unclean until the evening.
18 If 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.
19 “ ‘If a woman has a discharge, and
her discharge in her flesh is blood, she
shall be in her impurity seven days. Whoever
touches her shall be unclean until the
evening.
20 “ ‘Everything that she lies on in her
impurity shall be unclean. Everything also
that she sits on shall be unclean.
21 Whoever touches her bed shall wash
his clothes, and bathe himself in water,
and be unclean until the evening.
22 Whoever touches anything that she
sits on shall wash his clothes, and bathe
himself in water, and be unclean until the
evening.
23 If it is on the bed, or on anything she
sits on, when he touches it, he shall be
unclean until the evening.
24 “ ‘If any man lies with her, and her
monthly flow is on him, he shall be unclean
seven days; and every bed he lies on
shall be unclean.
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.
26 Every bed she lies on all the days of
her discharge shall be to her as the bed of
her period. Everything she sits on shall be
unclean, as the uncleanness of her period.
27 Whoever touches these things shall be
unclean, and shall wash his clothes and
bathe himself in water, and be unclean
until the evening.
28 “ ‘But if she is cleansed of her discharge,
then she shall count to herself
seven days, and after that she shall be
clean.
29 On 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.
30 The 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 the LORD for the uncleanness of
her discharge.
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 among them.’ ”
32 This is the law of him who has a discharge,
and of him who has an emission of
semen, so that he is unclean by it;
33 and 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.
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