Laws About Bodily Discharges
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The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,
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"Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, 1When any man has a discharge from his body,a his discharge is unclean.
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And this is the law of his uncleanness for a discharge: whether his body runs with his discharge, or his body is blocked up by his discharge, it is his uncleanness.
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Every bed on which the one with the discharge lies shall be unclean, and everything on which he sits shall be unclean.
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And anyone who touches his bed 2shall wash his clothes and 3bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.
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And whoever sits on anything on which the one with the discharge has sat shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.
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And whoever touches the body of the one with the discharge shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.
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And if the one with the discharge spits on someone who is clean, then he shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.
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And any saddle on which the one with the discharge rides shall be unclean.
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And whoever touches anything that was under him shall be unclean until the evening. And whoever carries such things shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.
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Anyone whom the one with the discharge touches without having rinsed his hands in water shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.
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And an 4earthenware vessel that the one with the discharge touches shall be broken, and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.
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"And when the one with a discharge is cleansed of his discharge, then 5he shall count for himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes. And he shall bathe his body in fresh water and shall be clean.
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And on the eighth day he shall take two 6turtledoves or two pigeons and come before the LORD to the entrance of the tent of meeting and give them to the priest.
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And the priest shall use them, 7one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. 8And the priest shall make atonement for him before the LORD for his discharge.
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9"If a man has an emission of semen, he shall bathe his whole body in water and be unclean until the evening.
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And every garment and every skin on which the semen comes shall be washed with water and be unclean until the evening.
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If a man lies with a woman and has an emission of semen, both of them shall bathe themselves in water and 10be unclean until the evening.
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"When a woman has a discharge, and the discharge in her body is blood, she shall be in her menstrual impurity for seven days, and whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening.
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11And everything on which she lies during her menstrual impurity shall be unclean. Everything also on which she sits shall be unclean.
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And whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.
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And whoever touches anything on which she sits shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.
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Whether it is the bed or anything on which she sits, when he touches it he shall be unclean until the evening.
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And 12if any man lies with her and her menstrual impurity comes upon him, he shall be unclean seven days, and every bed on which he lies shall be unclean.
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"If 13a woman has a discharge of blood for many days, not at the time of her menstrual impurity, or if she has a discharge beyond the time of her impurity, all the days of the discharge she shall continue in uncleanness. As in the days of her impurity, she shall be unclean.
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Every bed on which she lies, all the days of her discharge, shall be to her as the bed of her impurity. And everything on which she sits shall be unclean, as in the uncleanness of her menstrual impurity.
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And whoever touches these things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.
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But 14if she is cleansed of her discharge, she shall count for herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean.
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And on the eighth day she shall take two 15turtledoves or two pigeons and bring them to the priest, to the entrance of the tent of meeting.
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And the priest shall use one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. And the priest shall make atonement for her before the LORD for her unclean discharge.
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"Thus you shall keep the people of Israel separate from their uncleanness, lest they die in their uncleanness by 16defiling my tabernacle that is in their midst."
The English Standard Version is published with the permission of Good News Publishers.
(English Standard Version - The Holy Bible Online)