Leviticus 15

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1 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, saying:
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man has a discharge from his body, because of his issue he is unclean.
3 And [the law] of his uncleanness by his discharge: when it flows from the expiry of his body, and when the body is delayed in his issue, it is his uncleanness;
4 Every bed, whereon he lieth that hath the issue, is unclean: and every thing, whereon he sitteth, shall be unclean;
5 and whoever touches his bed shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening;
6 And he that sitteth on any thing whereon he sat that hath the issue shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening;
7 and whoever touches the flesh of him that hath shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening;
8 if that hath the issue spit on clean, then he shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening;
9 and every saddle on which he rideth upon, shall be unclean [until the evening]
10 And whoever touches anything that was under him shall be unclean until the evening; and who carries those things shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening;
eleven and whomsoever he toucheth that hath not rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening;
12 vessel of earth, that he toucheth which hath the issue, shall be broken, and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.
13 And when that hath cleansed of her issue, then he shall count to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in running water, and 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 tent of meeting, and give them to the priest;
15 And the priest now [birds] one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, and make atonement for him priest before the Lord for his issue.
16 If anyone has an emission of semen, then he shall wash all his body in water, and be unclean until the evening;
17 And every garment, and every skin, whereon is the seed, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the evening;
18 If a man lies with a woman, and [to be] in his emission of semen, they must bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening.

19 If a woman has a discharge of blood from her body, she shall be seven days for his cleansing, and whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening;
20 and every thing that she lieth upon in her separation shall be unclean; and whatever she sits on shall be unclean;
21 and whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening;
22 And whoever touches any thing on which she was sitting, shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening;
23 and if someone touches anything on the bed or on the thing on which she sits shall be unclean until the evening;
24 if a man lie with her, that her impurity is on him; he shall be unclean seven days, and every bed on which he lies shall be unclean.
25 If a woman has her blood many days out of the time of her separation, or if it run beyond the [ordinary] cleanse it, all the days of her impurity, like in the days of her, she shall be unclean;
26 Every bed on which she lies all the days of her issue shall be [unclean], as the bed of her separation; and every thing on which she sits shall be unclean, as it is unclean during her impurity;
27 and anyone who touches them will be unclean, and shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening.
28 But if she be cleansed of her issue, then she shall count seven days, and then it will be clean;
29 on the eighth day she shall take two turtledoves or two young pigeons, and bring them to the priest to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting;
thirty and the priest shall offer one [of birds] for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, and the priest shall make atonement for her before the LORD for the issue of her uncleanness.
31 So, do not expose the children of Israel from their uncleanness, that they die not in their uncleanness by defiling my tabernacle that is among them:
32 This is the law about who has the discharge and that one emission of semen that makes him unclean,
33 and the purification of their suffering, and that hath an issue, man or woman, and about her husband, who lies with evil.

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