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Leviticus 15:1-33 — Bodily Discharges

Lev.15.1-33

¹Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying: ²"Speak to the Israelites and say to them: 'When any man has a discharge from his body, his discharge is unclean. ³And this shall be his uncleanness in his discharge: whether his body runs with his discharge, or his body is blocked from his discharge, it is his uncleanness. ⁴Every bed on which the one with a discharge lies will be unclean, and every object on which he sits will be unclean. ⁵Anyone who touches his bed must wash his clothes and bathe in water, and he will be unclean until evening. ⁶Whoever sits on the object on which the one with a discharge sat must wash his clothes and bathe in water, and he will be unclean until evening. ⁷Whoever touches the body of the one with a discharge must wash his clothes and bathe in water, and he will be unclean until evening. ⁸If the one with a discharge spits on someone who is clean, then that person must wash his clothes and bathe in water, and he will be unclean until evening. ⁹Any saddle on which the one with a discharge rides will be unclean. ¹⁰Whoever touches anything that was under him will be unclean until evening, and whoever carries those things must wash his clothes and bathe in water, and he will be unclean until evening. ¹¹Anyone whom the one with a discharge touches without having rinsed his hands in water must wash his clothes and bathe in water, and he will be unclean until evening. ¹²Any clay vessel that the one with a discharge touches must be broken, and every wooden vessel must be rinsed in water. ¹³When the one with a discharge is cleansed from his discharge, he must count seven days for his cleansing, wash his clothes, and bathe his body in fresh water, and he will be clean. ¹⁴On the eighth day he must take two turtledoves or two young pigeons, come before Yahweh to the entrance of the tent of meeting, and give them to the priest. ¹⁵The priest shall offer them, one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering. Thus the priest will make atonement for him before Yahweh for his discharge. ¹⁶If a man has an emission of semen, he must bathe his whole body in water, and he will be unclean until evening. ¹⁷Every garment and every piece of leather on which there is an emission of semen must be washed with water, and it will be unclean until evening. ¹⁸If a man lies with a woman and there is an emission of semen, both must bathe in water, and they will be unclean until evening. ¹⁹When a woman has a discharge, and her discharge in her body is blood, she will be in her menstrual impurity for seven days, and whoever touches her will be unclean until evening. ²⁰Everything on which she lies during her menstrual impurity will be unclean, and everything on which she sits will be unclean. ²¹Whoever touches her bed must wash his clothes and bathe in water, and he will be unclean until evening. ²²Whoever touches any object on which she sits must wash his clothes and bathe in water, and he will be unclean until evening. ²³If it is on the bed or on the object on which she sits, when he touches it, he will be unclean until evening. ²⁴If a man lies with her and her menstrual impurity gets on him, he will be unclean for seven days, and every bed on which he lies will be unclean. ²⁵If a woman has a discharge of her blood for many days outside the time of her menstrual impurity, or if she has a discharge beyond her menstrual impurity, all the days of her unclean discharge will be like the days of her menstrual impurity; she is unclean. ²⁶Every bed on which she lies all the days of her discharge will be to her like the bed of her menstrual impurity, and every object on which she sits will be unclean, like the uncleanness of her menstrual impurity. ²⁷Whoever touches them will be unclean, and he must wash his clothes and bathe in water, and he will be unclean until evening. ²⁸When she is cleansed from her discharge, she must count seven days for herself, and after that she will be clean. ²⁹On the eighth day she must take two turtledoves or two young pigeons and bring them to the priest, to the entrance of the tent of meeting. ³⁰The priest shall offer one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering. Thus the priest will make atonement for her before Yahweh for her unclean discharge. ³¹Thus you shall keep the Israelites separate from their uncleanness, so that they do not die in their uncleanness by defiling my tabernacle that is among them. ³²This is the law for the one with a discharge, and for the man who has an emission of semen so that he is unclean by it, ³³and for the woman who is in her menstrual impurity , and for anyone who has a discharge, whether male or female, and for a man who lies with an unclean woman.'

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4/11/2026

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