Leviticus 15

Cleansing Unhealthiness

1The Lord also spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 2“Speak to the sons of Israel, and say to them, ‘1When any man has a discharge from his 2body, 3his discharge is unclean. 3This, moreover, shall be his uncleanness in his discharge: it is his uncleanness whether his body allows its discharge to flow or whether his body obstructs its discharge. 4Every bed on which the person with the discharge lies becomes unclean, and everything on which he sits becomes unclean. 5Anyone, moreover, who touches his bed shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until evening; 6and whoever sits on the thing on which the man with the discharge has been sitting, shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until evening. 7Also whoever touches the 4person with the discharge shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until evening. 8Or if the man with the discharge spits on one who is clean, he too shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until evening. 9Every saddle on which the person with the discharge rides becomes unclean. 10Whoever then touches any of the things which were under him shall be unclean until evening, and he who carries them shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until evening. 11Likewise, whomever the one with the discharge touches without having rinsed his hands in water shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until evening. 12However, an 5earthenware vessel which the person with the discharge touches shall be broken, and every wooden vessel shall be rinsed in water.

13‘Now when the man with the discharge becomes cleansed from his discharge, then he 6shall count off for himself seven days for his cleansing; he shall then wash his clothes and bathe his body in 7running water and will become clean. 14Then on the eighth day he shall take for himself 8two turtledoves or two young pigeons, and come before the Lord to the doorway of the tent of meeting and give them to the priest; 15and the priest shall offer them, 9one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. So 10the priest shall make atonement on his behalf before the Lord because of his discharge.

16‘11Now if a 12man has a seminal emission, he shall bathe all his body in water and be unclean until evening. 17As for any garment or any leather on which there is seminal emission, it shall be washed with water and be unclean until evening. 18If a man lies with a woman so that there is a seminal emission, they shall both bathe in water and be 13unclean until evening.

19‘14When a woman has a discharge, if her discharge in her body is blood, she shall continue in her menstrual impurity for seven days; and whoever touches her shall be unclean until evening. 20Everything also on which she lies during her menstrual impurity shall be unclean, and everything on which she sits shall be unclean. 21Anyone who touches her bed shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until evening. 22Whoever touches any thing on which she sits shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until evening. 23Whether it be on the bed or on the thing on which she is sitting, when he touches it, he shall be unclean until evening. 2415If a man actually lies with her so that her menstrual impurity is on him, he shall be unclean seven days, and every bed on which he lies shall be unclean.

25‘16Now if a woman has a discharge of her blood many days, not at the period of her menstrual impurity, or if she has a discharge beyond 17that period, all the days of her impure discharge she shall continue as though 18in her menstrual impurity; she is unclean. 26Any bed on which she lies all the days of her discharge shall be to her like 19her bed at menstruation; and every thing on which she sits shall be unclean, like 20her uncleanness at that time. 27Likewise, whoever touches them shall be unclean and shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until evening. 28When she becomes clean from her discharge, she shall count off for herself seven days; and afterward she will be clean. 29Then on the eighth day she shall take for herself two turtledoves or two young pigeons and bring them in to the priest, to the doorway of the tent of meeting. 30The priest shall offer the 21one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. So the priest shall make atonement on her behalf before the Lord because of her impure discharge.’

31“Thus you shall keep the sons of Israel separated from their uncleanness, so that they will not die in their uncleanness by their 22defiling My 23tabernacle that is among them.” 32This is the law for the one with a discharge, and for the man 24who has a seminal emission so that he is unclean by it, 33and for the woman who is ill because of menstrual impurity, and for the one who has a discharge, whether a male or a female, or a man who lies with an unclean woman.