Leviticus 15
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Leviticus 15:2-15

2“Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘When any man has a discharge from his body, his discharge is unclean.

3Now this is his uncleanness in regard to his discharge – whether his body secretes his discharge or blocks his discharge, he is unclean. All the days that his body has a discharge or his body blocks his discharge, this is his uncleanness.

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

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

6The one who sits on the furniture the man with a discharge sits on must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

7The one who touches the body of the man with a discharge must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

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

9Any means of riding the man with a discharge rides on will be unclean.

10Anyone who touches anything that was under him will be unclean until evening, and the one who carries those items must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

11Anyone whom the man with the discharge touches without having rinsed his hands in water must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

12A clay vessel which the man with the discharge touches must be broken, and any wooden utensil must be rinsed in water.

13“‘When the man with the discharge becomes clean from his discharge he is to count off for himself seven days for his purification, and he must wash his clothes, bathe in fresh water, and be clean.

14Then on the eighth day he is to take for himself two turtledoves or two young pigeons, and he is to present himself before the Lord at the entrance of the Meeting Tent and give them to the priest,

15and the priest is to make one of them a sin offering and the other a burnt offering. So the priest is to make atonement for him before the Lord for his discharge.

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