Laws Concerning Bodily Discharges
Leviticus 15, verse 1. Now the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, Leviticus 15, verse 2. “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, to any and every man, ‘When any man has a seminal discharge from his body, his discharge is unclean. Leviticus 15, verse 3. This shall be the law of his uncleanness—whether his bodily member flows with an involuntary discharge of semen, or is stopped up by his discharge, it is his uncleanness. Leviticus 15, verse 4. Every bed on which he who has the discharge lies is unclean, and everything on which he sits shall be unclean. Leviticus 15, verse 5. Whoever touches his bed shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening. Leviticus 15, verse 6. Whoever sits on anything on which he who has the discharge sat shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening. Leviticus 15, verse 7. Whoever touches the skin of him who has the discharge shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening. Leviticus 15, verse 8. If he who has the discharge spits on him who is clean, he shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening. Leviticus 15, verse 9. Any saddle of a donkey on which he who has the discharge rides shall be unclean until evening. Leviticus 15, verse 10. Whoever touches anything under him shall be unclean until evening; and whoever carries any of those things shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening. Leviticus 15, verse 11. Whomever he who has the discharge touches, and has not rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening. Leviticus 15, verse 12. An earthen vessel that he who has the discharge touches shall be broken, and every wooden vessel shall be rinsed in water. Leviticus 15, verse 13. ‘Now when he who has a discharge is cleansed of his discharge, he shall count for himself seven days for his cleansing. He shall wash his clothes, and bathe his body in water; then he shall be clean. Leviticus 15, verse 14. On the eighth day he shall take for himself two turtledoves or two young pigeons and bring these before the Lord, to the door of the tabernacle of testimony, and give them to the priest. Leviticus 15, verse 15. Then the priest shall offer them, the one as a sin offering and the other as a whole burnt offering. So the priest shall make atonement for him before the Lord because of his discharge. Leviticus 15, verse 16. ‘If any man has an emission of semen, he shall wash all his body in water and be unclean until evening. Leviticus 15, verse 17. Any garment and any leather on which there is semen shall be washed with water, and be unclean until evening. Leviticus 15, verse 18. Also, when a woman lies with a man and there is an emission of semen, they shall bathe in water, and be unclean until evening. Leviticus 15, verse 19. ‘If a woman has a discharge, and the discharge from her body is blood, she shall be in her menstrual period seven days; and whoever touches her shall be unclean until evening. Leviticus 15, verse 20. Everything she lies on during her menstruation shall be unclean; also everything she sits on shall be unclean. Leviticus 15, verse 21. Whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and be unclean until evening. Leviticus 15, verse 22. Whoever touches anything she sat on shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening. Leviticus 15, verse 23. If anything is on her bed, or on anything on which she sits, when he touches it, he shall be unclean until evening. Leviticus 15, verse 24. If any man lies with her, and her uncleanness is on him, he shall be unclean seven days; and every bed on which he lies shall be unclean. Leviticus 15, verse 25. ‘If a woman has a discharge of blood for many days, other than at the time of her menstruation, or if it runs beyond this time, all the days of her unclean discharge shall be as the days of her menstruation. She shall be unclean. Leviticus 15, verse 26. Every bed on which she lies all the days of her discharge shall be to her as the bed of her menstruation; and whatever she sits on, it shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her menstruation. Leviticus 15, verse 27. Whoever touches her shall be unclean; and he shall wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening. Leviticus 15, verse 28. But if she is cleansed of her discharge, she shall count for herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean. Leviticus 15, verse 29. Then on the eighth day she shall take for herself two turtledoves or two young pigeons and bring them to the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of testimony. Leviticus 15, verse 30. The priest shall offer one as a sin offering and the other as a whole burnt offering, and the priest shall make atonement for her before the Lord because of the discharge of her uncleanness. Leviticus 15, verse 31. ‘Thus you shall make the children of Israel ungodly because of their uncleanness, lest they die in their uncleanness when they defile My tabernacle among them. Leviticus 15, verse 32. This is the law for one who has a discharge and who emits semen and is unclean thereby, Leviticus 15, verse 33. and for her who is indisposed because of her menstrual period, and for one who has a discharge, either man or woman, and for the man who lies with her during her menstrual period.’”