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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Leviticus 15 NIV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/leviticus/15.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/leviticus/15-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NIV</a> > Leviticus 15</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../leviticus/14.htm" title="Leviticus 14">◄</a> Leviticus 15 <a href="../leviticus/16.htm" title="Leviticus 16">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/leviticus/15.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">Discharges Causing Uncleanness</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/15-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>The <span class="name">Lord</span> said to Moses and Aaron, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/15-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When any man has an unusual bodily discharge, such a discharge is unclean. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/15-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Whether it continues flowing from his body or is blocked, it will make him unclean. This is how his discharge will bring about uncleanness:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/15-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>“ ‘Any bed the man with a discharge lies on will be unclean, and anything he sits on will be unclean. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/15-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Anyone who touches his bed must wash their clothes and bathe with water, and they will be unclean till evening. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/15-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Whoever sits on anything that the man with a discharge sat on must wash their clothes and bathe with water, and they will be unclean till evening.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/15-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“ ‘Whoever touches the man who has a discharge must wash their clothes and bathe with water, and they will be unclean till evening.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/15-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“ ‘If the man with the discharge spits on anyone who is clean, they must wash their clothes and bathe with water, and they will be unclean till evening.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/15-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“ ‘Everything the man sits on when riding will be unclean, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/15-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>and whoever touches any of the things that were under him will be unclean till evening; whoever picks up those things must wash their clothes and bathe with water, and they will be unclean till evening.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/15-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>“ ‘Anyone the man with a discharge touches without rinsing his hands with water must wash their clothes and bathe with water, and they will be unclean till evening.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/15-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“ ‘A clay pot that the man touches must be broken, and any wooden article is to be rinsed with water.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/15-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“ ‘When a man is cleansed from his discharge, he is to count off seven days for his ceremonial cleansing; he must wash his clothes and bathe himself with fresh water, and he will be clean. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/15-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>On the eighth day he must take two doves or two young pigeons and come before the <span class="name">Lord</span> to the entrance to the tent of meeting and give them to the priest. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/15-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>The priest is to sacrifice them, the one for a sin offering <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or purification offering; also in verse 30">a</a></sup></span> and the other for a burnt offering. In this way he will make atonement before the <span class="name">Lord</span> for the man because of his discharge.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/15-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>“ ‘When a man has an emission of semen, he must bathe his whole body with water, and he will be unclean till evening. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/15-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Any clothing or leather that has semen on it must be washed with water, and it will be unclean till evening. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/15-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>When a man has sexual relations with a woman and there is an emission of semen, both of them must bathe with water, and they will be unclean till evening.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/15-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>“ ‘When a woman has her regular flow of blood, the impurity of her monthly period will last seven days, and anyone who touches her will be unclean till evening.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/15-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>“ ‘Anything she lies on during her period will be unclean, and anything she sits on will be unclean. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/15-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Anyone who touches her bed will be unclean; they must wash their clothes and bathe with water, and they will be unclean till evening. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/15-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Anyone who touches anything she sits on will be unclean; they must wash their clothes and bathe with water, and they will be unclean till evening. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/15-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Whether it is the bed or anything she was sitting on, when anyone touches it, they will be unclean till evening.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/15-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>“ ‘If a man has sexual relations with her and her monthly flow touches him, he will be unclean for seven days; any bed he lies on will be unclean.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/15-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>“ ‘When a woman has a discharge of blood for many days at a time other than her monthly period or has a discharge that continues beyond her period, she will be unclean as long as she has the discharge, just as in the days of her period. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/15-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Any bed she lies on while her discharge continues will be unclean, as is her bed during her monthly period, and anything she sits on will be unclean, as during her period. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/15-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Anyone who touches them will be unclean; they must wash their clothes and bathe with water, and they will be unclean till evening.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/15-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>“ ‘When she is cleansed from her discharge, she must count off seven days, and after that she will be ceremonially clean. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/15-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>On the eighth day she must take two doves or two young pigeons and bring them to the priest at the entrance to the tent of meeting. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/15-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>The priest is to sacrifice one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. In this way he will make atonement for her before the <span class="name">Lord</span> for the uncleanness of her discharge.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/15-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>“ ‘You must keep the Israelites separate from things that make them unclean, so they will not die in their uncleanness for defiling my dwelling place, <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or my tabernacle">b</a></sup></span> which is among them.’ ”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/15-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>These are the regulations for a man with a discharge, for anyone made unclean by an emission of semen, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/15-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>for a woman in her monthly period, for a man or a woman with a discharge, and for a man who has sexual relations with a woman who is ceremonially unclean.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">15</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>purification offering</i>; also in verse 30</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">31</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>my tabernacle</i></span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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