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Leviticus 15

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15 ‎(1) the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying: ‎(2) Speak to the Israelite people and say to them: When any man has a discharge issuing from his member, he is impure. ‎(3) The impurity from his discharge shall mean the following—whether his member runs with the discharge or is stopped up so that there is no discharge, his impurity means this: ‎(4) Any bedding on which the one with the discharge lies shall be impure, and every object on which he sits shall be impure. ‎(5) Those persons who touch his bedding shall wash their clothes, bathe in water, and remain impure until evening. ‎(6) Those who sit on an object on which the one with the discharge has sat shall wash their clothes, bathe in water, and remain impure until evening. ‎(7) Those who touch the body of the one with the discharge shall wash their clothes, bathe in water, and remain impure until evening. ‎(8) If the one with a discharge spits on someone who is pure, the latter shall wash those clothes, bathe in water, and remain impure until evening. ‎(9) Any means for riding that the one with a discharge has mounted shall be impure; ‎(10) all those who touch anything that was under him shall be impure until evening; and all those who carry such things shall wash their clothes, bathe in water, and remain impure until evening. ‎(11) All those whom the one with a discharge touches, without having rinsed his hands in water, shall wash their clothes, bathe in water, and remain impure until evening. ‎(12) An earthen vessel that the one with a discharge touches shall be broken; and any wooden implement shall be rinsed with water. ‎(13) When the one with a discharge becomes purified of his discharge, he shall count off seven days for his purification, wash those clothes, and bathe his body in fresh water; then he shall be pure. ‎(14) On the eighth day he shall take two turtledoves or two pigeons and come before the LORD at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting and give them to the priest. ‎(15) The priest shall offer them, the one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering. Thus the priest shall make expiation on his behalf, for his discharge, before the LORD. ‎(16) When a man has an emission of semen, he shall bathe his whole body in water and remain impure until evening. ‎(17) All cloth or leather on which semen falls shall be washed in water and remain impure until evening. ‎(18) Likewise for a woman: when a man has carnal relations with her, both shall bathe in water and remain impure until evening. ‎(19) When a woman has a discharge, her discharge being blood from her body, she shall remain in her menstrual separation seven days; whoever touches her shall be impure until evening. ‎(20) Anything that she lies on during her menstrual separation shall be impure; and anything that she sits on shall be impure. ‎(21) All those who touch her bedding shall wash their clothes, bathe in water, and remain impure until evening; ‎(22) and all those who touch any object on which she has sat shall wash their clothes, bathe in water, and remain impure until evening. ‎(23) Be it the bedding or be it the object on which she has sat, on touching it one shall be impure until evening. ‎(24) And if a man lies with her, her menstrual separation applies to him; he shall be impure seven days, and any bedding on which he lies shall become impure. ‎(25) When a woman has had a discharge of blood for many days, not at the time of her menstrual separation, or when she has a discharge beyond her period of menstrual separation, she shall be impure, as though at the time of her menstrual separation, as long as her discharge lasts. ‎(26) Any bedding on which she lies while her discharge lasts shall be for her like bedding during her menstrual separation; and any object on which she sits shall become impure, as it does during her menstrual separation: ‎(27) All those who touch them shall be impure—and shall wash their clothes, bathe in water, and remain impure until evening. ‎(28) When she becomes purified of her discharge, she shall count off seven days, and after that she shall be pure. ‎(29) On the eighth day she shall take two turtledoves or two pigeons, and bring them to the priest at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting. ‎(30) The priest shall offer the one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering; and the priest shall make expiation on her behalf, for her impure discharge, before the LORD. ‎(31) You shall put the Israelites on guard against their impurity, lest they die through their impurity by defiling My Tabernacle which is among them. ‎(32) Such is the ritual concerning one who has a discharge: concerning him who has an emission of semen and becomes impure thereby; ‎(33) and concerning her whose condition is that of menstrual separation; and concerning anyone, male or female, who has a discharge; and concerning a man who lies with an impure woman.