Old Testament · Leviticus

Leviticus 15

The Uncleanness of Men

(Deuteronomy 23:9–14)

1And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying: 2Speak to the sons of Israel, and you shall say to them: A man^a, a man, when he becomes one having a discharge from his flesh^b, his discharge is unclean. 3And this shall be his uncleanness in his discharge: whether his flesh runs with his discharge, or his flesh is stopped from his discharge, it is his uncleanness.

4Every bed on which he that has the discharge lies shall be unclean, and every vessel on which he sits shall be unclean. 5And a man who touches his bed shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean before(ad עד) the evening. 6And he that sits on the vessel on which he that has the discharge sat shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean before(ad עד) the evening.

7And he that touches the flesh of him that has the discharge shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean before(ad עד) the evening. 8And when he that has the discharge spits on him that is clean, then he shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean before(ad עד) the evening.

9And every saddle on which he that has the discharge rides shall be unclean. 10And everyone who touches anything that was under him shall be unclean until the evening; and he that carries them shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening.

11And everyone whom he that has the discharge touches, when he has not rinsed his hands in water, shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean before(ad עד) the evening. 12And the earthen vessel that he that has the discharge touches shall be broken; and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.

The Cleansing of Men

13And when he that has the discharge is cleansed of his discharge, then he shall number to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in living^c water, and be clean. 14And on the eighth day he shall take to himself two turtledoves, or two sons of a dove, and come before the LORD to the opening of the tent^d of appointed time (mo-ed), and give them to the priest. 15And the priest shall offer them, one a sin offering and the one a burnt offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him before the LORD for his discharge.

16And a man, when an emission of seed goes out from him, then he shall bathe all his flesh in water, and be unclean before(ad עד) the evening. 17And every garment and every skin on which is the emission of seed shall be washed in water, and be unclean before(ad עד) the evening. 18And a woman^e with whom a man lies, an emission of seed, they shall both bathe in water, and be unclean before(ad עד) the evening.

The Uncleanness of Women

19And a woman, when she has a discharge, and her discharge in her flesh is blood, she shall be in her menstrual impurity seven days; and everyone who touches her shall be unclean before(ad עד) the evening. 20And everything on which she lies in her menstrual impurity shall be unclean, and everything on which she sits shall be unclean. 21And everyone who touches her bed shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean before(ad עד) the evening.

22And everyone who touches any vessel on which she sits shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean before(ad עד) the evening. 23And if it is on the bed, or on the vessel on which she sits, when he touches it, he shall be unclean before(ad עד) the evening.

24And if a man indeed lies with her, and her menstrual impurity is upon him, he shall be unclean seven days; and every bed on which he lies shall be unclean.

25And a woman, when her flow of blood flows many days not in the time of her menstrual impurity, or when she has a discharge beyond her menstrual impurity, all the days of the discharge of her uncleanness she shall be as in the days of her menstrual impurity: she is unclean. 26Every bed on which she lies all the days of her discharge shall be to her as the bed of her menstrual impurity; and every vessel on which she sits shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her menstrual impurity. 27And everyone who touches them shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean before(ad עד) the evening.

The Cleansing of Women

28And if she is cleansed of her discharge, then she shall number to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean. 29And on the eighth day she shall take to herself two turtledoves, or two sons of a dove, and bring them to the priest, to the opening of the tent of appointed time (mo-ed). 30And the priest shall offer the one a sin offering and the one a burnt offering; and the priest shall make atonement for her before the LORD for the discharge of her uncleanness.

31And you shall separate the sons of Israel from their uncleanness, that they die not in their uncleanness, when they defile My tabernacle^f that is in their midst.

32This is the Torah of him that has a discharge, and of him from whom an emission of seed goes out, so that he is unclean by it; 33and of her that is unwell in her menstrual impurity, and of him that has a discharge, of his discharge, for the male and for the female, and for a man who lies with an unclean woman.