Leviticus 15:16-33 ▼

16 |If a man has a seminal emission, he is to bathe his entire body with water and remain unclean until evening.

17 Every garment (including leather) on which the semen is found is to be washed with water, and it will remain unclean until evening.

18 When a man has sexual relations with a woman and the man releases semen, both are to bathe with water, and they will remain unclean until evening.|

19 |When a woman has a discharge, and the blood is her monthly menstrual discharge from her body, then for seven days she is to remain in her menstrual uncleanness. Whoever touches her will remain unclean until evening.

20 Everything that she sleeps on during her uncleanness will be unclean. Moreover, everything that she sits on will become unclean.

21 Anyone who touches her bed is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.

22 Anyone who touches any of the objects on which she has sat is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.

23 Any bed or other object on which she sat that he touches will make him unclean until evening.

24 When a man has sexual relations with her and her menstrual uncleanness touches him, he will be unclean for seven days. Every bed where he sleeps will remain unclean.

25 |When a woman has a continuous discharge of blood many days beyond the time of her menstrual uncleanness, or if she has a discharge that lasts beyond the days of her menstrual uncleanness, her uncleanness is to be treated like the days of her menstruation—she's unclean.

26 Every bed on which she sleeps the whole time she has the discharge will be her own unclean bed, so that every object on which she sits becomes unclean like her menstrual uncleanness.

27 Whoever touches them will become unclean. He is to wash his clothes and bathe with water and he will remain unclean until evening.

28 |If she becomes clean with her discharge, then she is to count for herself seven days, after which she becomes clean.

29 On the eighth day, she is to take for herself two turtledoves or two young pigeons and bring them to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

30 Then the priest is to offer one for a sin offering and the other for a whole burnt offering. This is how the priest will make atonement in the LORD's presence for her regarding her unclean discharge.

31 |So separate the Israelis from their uncleanness so that they won't die in their uncleanness if they defile my tent that is in their midst.

32 These are the regulations for one whose discharge of semen causes him to become unclean because of it,

33 for her whose menstruation causes her to become ill, for anyone who has a discharge (whether male or female), and for the man who has sexual relations with one who is unclean.|