Laws About Bodily Discharges

Leviticus 15

1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses and to Aaron, saying, 2 Speak unto the sons of Israel and say unto them, Any man when his seed issues forth out of his flesh, he shall be unclean. 3 And this shall be his uncleanness in his issue: whether his flesh drips because of his issue or his flesh is stopped because of his issue, he shall be unclean. 4 Every bed on which the one that has the issue lies shall be unclean; and everything upon which he sits shall be unclean. 5 And whoever touches his bed shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening. 6 And he that sits on any thing upon which the one that has the issue sat shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening. 7 Likewise he that touches the flesh of the one that has the issue shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening. 8 And if the one that has the issue spits upon him that is clean, then he shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening. 9 And any saddle that he that has the issue rides upon shall be unclean. 10 And whoever touches any thing that was under him shall be unclean until the evening, and he that bears any of those things shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening. 11 And whoever the one that has the issue touches and has not washed his hands with water, he shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening. 12 And the vessel of earth that the one that has the issue touches shall be broken, and every vessel of wood shall be washed with water.

13 And when the one that has an issue is cleansed of his issue; then he shall number to himself seven days from his purification and wash his clothes and bathe his flesh in living water, and he shall be clean. 14 And on the eighth day he shall take two turtledoves or two young pigeons and come before the LORD unto the door of the tabernacle of the testimony and give them unto the priest; 15 and the priest shall offer the one as sin and the other as a burnt offering; and the priest shall reconcile him from his issue before the LORD.

16 And the man, when his seed shall go forth from him, then shall wash all his flesh in water and be unclean until the evening. 17 And every garment and every skin upon which the seed of a man has come shall be washed with water and be unclean until the evening. 18 The woman also with whom the man shall have sexual contact with seed, they shall both bathe themselves in water and be unclean until the evening.

19 And when the woman has an issue of blood and her issue is in her flesh, she shall be put apart seven days, and whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening. 20 And everything that she lies upon in her separation shall be unclean; everything also that she sits upon shall be unclean. 21 And whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes and bathe himself with water and be unclean until the evening. 22 Also whoever touches any thing that she sat upon shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening. 23 And if any thing was on the bed or on any thing upon which she sat, he that touches it shall be unclean until the evening. 24 And if any man sleeps with her and her uncleanness comes upon him, he shall be unclean seven days; and any bed upon which he sleeps shall be unclean.

25 And the woman when she has an issue of her blood many days out of the time of her separation or if it runs beyond the time of her separation, all the days of the issue of her uncleanness shall be as the days of her separation: she shall be unclean. 26 Every bed upon which she sleeps all the days of her issue shall be unto her as the bed of her separation; and whatever she sits upon shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her separation. 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 when she is clean of her issue, then she shall number to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean. 29 And on the eighth day she shall take unto her two turtledoves or two young pigeons and bring them unto the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the testimony; 30 and the priest shall offer the one as sin and the other as a burnt offering; and the priest shall reconcile her before the LORD of the issue of her uncleanness.

31 Thus shall ye separate the sons of Israel from their uncleanness; and they shall not die for their uncleanness defiling my tabernacle that is among them.

32 This is the law of the one that has an issue and of him whose seed goes forth from him, causing him to be unclean because of it, 33 and of her that is suffering her menstruation, and of the one that has an issue, male or female, and of the man that lies with an unclean woman.

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