Discharges That Cause Uncleanness
1Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron. He said, 2“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When any man has a discharge from his body, his discharge is unclean. 3This is his uncleanness because of the discharge: whether his body flows with the discharge or is blocked so that no discharge comes out, it makes him unclean. 4Any bed the man with the discharge lies on will be unclean, and anything he sits on will be unclean. 5Anyone who touches his bed must wash his clothes and bathe in water, and he will be unclean until evening. 6Anyone who sits on anything the man with the discharge has sat on must wash his clothes and bathe in water, and he will be unclean until evening. 7Anyone who touches the body of the man with the discharge must wash his clothes and bathe in water, and he will be unclean until evening. 8If the man with the discharge spits on someone who is clean, that person must wash his clothes and bathe in water, and he will be unclean until evening. 9Any saddle the man with the discharge rides on will be unclean. 10Anyone who touches anything that was under him will be unclean until evening, and anyone who carries such a thing must wash his clothes and bathe in water, and he will be unclean until evening. 11Anyone the man with the discharge touches without having rinsed his hands in water must wash his clothes and bathe in water, and he will be unclean until evening. 12A clay pot the man with the discharge touches must be broken, and any wooden article must be rinsed with water. 13When the man with the discharge becomes clean of it, he is to count off 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 is to take two turtledoves or two young pigeons, come before Yahweh to the entrance to the tent of meeting, and give them to the priest. 15The priest is to offer them, one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering. In this way the priest will make atonement for him before Yahweh because of his discharge. 16When a man has an emission of semen, he must bathe his whole body in water, and he will be unclean until evening. 17Any garment or leather article with semen on it must be washed with water, and it will be unclean until evening. 18When a man lies with a woman and there is an emission of semen, both of them must bathe in water, and they will be unclean until evening.
A Woman’s Monthly Impurity
19When a woman has a discharge, and the discharge from her body is blood, she is to remain in her impurity for seven days, and anyone who touches her will be unclean until evening. 20Anything she lies on during her impurity will be unclean, and anything she sits on will be unclean. 21Anyone who touches her bed must wash his clothes and bathe in water, and he will be unclean until evening. 22Anyone who touches anything she has sat on must wash his clothes and bathe in water, and he will be unclean until evening. 23Whether it is the bed or anything she was sitting on, if someone touches it, he will be unclean until evening. 24If a man lies with her and her impurity touches him, he will be unclean for seven days, and any bed he lies on will be unclean. 25When a woman has a discharge of blood for many days outside her regular time, or the discharge continues beyond her regular time, she will be unclean the whole time of the discharge, just as during the days of her impurity. 26Any bed she lies on during the time of her discharge will be like the bed of her impurity, and anything she sits on will be unclean, as in her impurity. 27Anyone who touches these things will be unclean; he must wash his clothes and bathe in water, and he will be unclean until evening. 28When she becomes clean of her discharge, she is to count off seven days, and after that she will be clean. 29On the eighth day she is to take two turtledoves or two young pigeons and bring them to the priest at the entrance to the tent of meeting. 30The priest is to offer one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering. In this way the priest will make atonement for her before Yahweh because of her unclean discharge. 31You must keep the Israelites separate from their uncleanness, so that they do not die in their uncleanness by defiling my tabernacle, which is among them. 32This is the law for the man with a discharge, for the man who has an emission of semen and becomes unclean by it, 33for the woman who is ill with her monthly impurity, for anyone, male or female, with a discharge, and for a man who lies with an unclean woman.”
