15:1 The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron saying: 15:2 “Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, ‘When any man¹ has a discharge² from his body,³ his discharge is unclean. 15:3 Now this is his uncleanness in regard to his discharge⁴—whether his body secretes his discharge or blocks his discharge, he is unclean. All the days that his body has a discharge or his body blocks from his discharge,⁵ this is his uncleanness.⁶

15:4 “‘Any bed on which the man with a discharge lies willshall be unclean,⁷ and any furniture on which he sits willshall be unclean.⁸ 15:5 Anyone who touches his bed⁹ must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.¹⁰ 15:6 The one who sits on the furniture on which the man with a discharge sits must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening. 15:7 The one who touches the body¹¹ of the man with a discharge must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening. 15:8 If the man with a discharge spits on a clean person,¹² then he must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening. 15:9 Any means of riding¹³ on which the man with a discharge rides will be unclean. 15:10 Anyone who touches anything which was under him¹⁴ will be unclean until evening, and the one who carries them must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening. 15:11 Anyone whom the man with the discharge touches without having rinsed his hands in water¹⁵ must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening. 15:12 A clay vessel¹⁶ which the man with the discharge touches must be broken, and any wood utensil must be rinsed in water.

15:13 “‘When the man with the discharge becomes clean from his discharge he is to count off for himself seven days for his purification, and he must wash his garments, bathe in fresh water,¹⁷ and be clean. 15:14 Then on the eighth day he is to take for himself two turtledoves or two young pigeons,¹⁸ and he is to come¹⁹ before the LORD at the doorway of the Tent of Meeting and give them to the priest, 15:15 and the priest is to make one of them a sin offering²⁰ and the other a burnt offering.²¹ So the priest²² is to make atonement for him before the LORD from his discharge.

15:16 “‘When a man has a seminal emission²³ he must bathe his whole body in water²⁴ and be unclean until evening, 15:17 and any clothing or leather on which there is a seminal emission he must wash in water and it will be unclean until evening. 15:18 When a man lies with a woman and there is a seminal emission²⁵ they must bathe in water and be unclean until evening.

15:19 “‘When a woman has a discharge²⁶ and her discharge is blood from her body,²⁷ she is to be in her menstruation²⁸ seven days and anyone who touches her will be unclean until evening. 15:20 Anything on which she lies during her menstruation will be unclean, and anything on which she sits will be unclean. 15:21 Anyone who touches her bed must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening, 15:22 and anyone who touches any furniture on which she sits must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening. 15:23 If there is something on the bed or on the furniture on which she sits,²⁹ when he touches it³⁰ he will be unclean until evening, 15:24 and if a man actually lies with her so that her menstrual impurity comes on him,³¹ then he will be unclean seven days and any bed on which he lies will be unclean.

15:25 “‘When a woman’s discharge of blood flows³² many days not at the time of her menstruation or if it flows beyond the time of her menstruation,³³ all the days of her discharge of impurity will be like the days of her menstruation—she is unclean. 15:26 Any bed on which she lies all the days of her discharge will be to her like the bed of her menstruation, any vessel on which she sits will be unclean like the impurity of her menstruation, 15:27 and anyone who touches them will be unclean, and he must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.³⁴

15:28 “‘If³⁵ she becomes clean from her discharge, then she is to count off for herself seven days and afterward she will be clean. 15:29 Then on the eighth day she must take for herself two turtledoves or two young pigeons³⁶ and she must bring them to the priest at the doorway of the Tent of Meeting, 15:30 and the priest is to make one a sin offering and the other a burnt offering.³⁷ So the priest³⁸ is to make atonement for her before the LORD from her discharge of impurity.

15:31 “‘Thus you³⁹ are to set the children of Israel apart from their impurity so that they⁴⁰ do not die in their impurity by defiling my tabernacle which is in their midst. 15:32 This is the law of the one with a discharge: the one who has a seminal emission⁴¹ and becomes unclean by it,⁴² 15:33 the one who is sick in her menstruation, the one with a discharge whether male or female,⁴³ and a man⁴⁴ who lies with an unclean woman.’”