Leviticus 15:1-18

1 The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:
2 Speak to the people of Israel and say to them: When any man has a discharge from his member, his discharge makes him ceremonially unclean.
3 The uncleanness of his discharge is this: whether his member flows with his discharge, or his member is stopped from discharging, it is uncleanness for him.
4 Every bed on which the one with the discharge lies shall be unclean; and everything on which he sits shall be unclean.
5 Anyone who touches his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening.
6 All who sit on anything on which the one with the discharge has sat shall wash their clothes, and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening.
7 All who touch the body of the one with the discharge shall wash their clothes, and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening.
8 If the one with the discharge spits on persons who are clean, then they shall wash their clothes, and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening.
9 Any saddle on which the one with the discharge rides shall be unclean.
10 All who touch anything that was under him shall be unclean until the evening, and all who carry such a thing shall wash their clothes, and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening.
11 All those whom the one with the discharge touches without his having rinsed his hands in water shall wash their clothes, and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening.
12 Any earthen vessel that the one with the discharge touches shall be broken; and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.
13 When the one with a discharge is cleansed of his discharge, he shall count seven days for his cleansing; he shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in fresh water, and he shall be clean.
14 On the eighth day he shall take two turtledoves or two pigeons and come before the Lord to the entrance of the tent of meeting and give them to the priest.
15 The priest shall offer them, one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make atonement on his behalf before the Lord for his discharge.
16 If a man has an emission of semen, he shall bathe his whole body in water, and be unclean until the evening.
17 Everything made of cloth or of skin on which the semen falls shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the evening.
18 If a man lies with a woman and has an emission of semen, both of them shall bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening.

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