Leviticus 15:5

5 So if you touch the man’s bed, you must wash your clothes and bathe yourself in water, and you will remain unclean until evening.

Leviticus 15:5 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 15:5

And whosoever toucheth his bed
Is unclean. According to the Misnah ^F24, a bed defiles a man seven ways, so as to defile garments; standing, sitting, lying, hanging, and leaning, and by touching, and by bearing:

shall wash his clothes, and bathe [himself] in water;
in forty seahs of water, as the Targum of Jonathan:

and be unclean until the even;
be unfit for conversation with other men till the even, though both his body and clothes are washed.

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FOOTNOTES:

F24 Zabim, ut supra. (c. 2. sect. 4.)

Leviticus 15:5 In-Context

3 This defilement is caused by his discharge, whether the discharge continues or stops. In either case the man is unclean.

4 Any bed on which the man with the discharge lies and anything on which he sits will be ceremonially unclean.

5 So if you touch the man’s bed, you must wash your clothes and bathe yourself in water, and you will remain unclean until evening.

6 If you sit where the man with the discharge has sat, you must wash your clothes and bathe yourself in water, and you will remain unclean until evening.

7 If you touch the man with the discharge, you must wash your clothes and bathe yourself in water, and you will remain unclean until evening.