1 Yahweh 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 whereon 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 whereon 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 "'Whoever 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 Yahweh to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and give
them to the priest: 15 and 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 Yahweh 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, whereon the semen is, 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: and 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 whereon she sits, 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 whereon he lies 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 whereon she lies all the days of her
discharge shall be to her as the bed of her period: and everything whereon
she sits 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 Yahweh 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 in their midst.'"
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 thereby; 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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