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and everything on which he sits shall be unclean. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>Anyone who touches his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>All who sit on anything on which the one with the discharge has sat shall wash their clothes, and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>All who touch the body of the one with the discharge shall wash their clothes, and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>If the one with the discharge spits on persons who are clean, then they shall wash their clothes, and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>Any saddle on which the one with the discharge rides shall be unclean. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>All who touch anything that was under him shall be unclean until the evening, and all who carry such a thing shall wash their clothes, and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>All those whom the one with the discharge touches without his having rinsed his hands in water shall wash their clothes, and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>Any earthen vessel that the one with the discharge touches shall be broken; and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>When the one with a discharge is cleansed of his discharge, he shall count seven days for his cleansing; he shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in fresh water, and he shall be clean. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>On the eighth day he shall take two turtledoves or two pigeons and come before the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> to the entrance of the tent of meeting and give them to the priest. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>The priest shall offer them, one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make atonement on his behalf before the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> for his discharge.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>If a man has an emission of semen, he shall bathe his whole body in water, and be unclean until the evening. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>Everything made of cloth or of skin on which the semen falls shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the evening. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>If a man lies with a woman and has an emission of semen, both of them shall bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>When a woman has a discharge of blood that is her regular discharge from her body, she shall be in her impurity for seven days, and whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>Everything upon which she lies during her impurity shall be unclean; everything also upon which she sits shall be unclean. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>Whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>Whoever touches anything upon which she sits shall wash his clothes, and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>whether it is the bed or anything upon which she sits, when he touches it he shall be unclean until the evening. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>If any man lies with her, and her impurity falls on him, he shall be unclean seven days; and every bed on which he lies shall be unclean.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>If a woman has a discharge of blood for many days, not at the time of her 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. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">26</span>Every bed on which she lies during all the days of her discharge shall be treated as the bed of her impurity; and everything on which she sits shall be unclean, as in the uncleanness of her impurity. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">27</span>Whoever touches these things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">28</span>If she is cleansed of her discharge, she shall count seven days, and after that she shall be clean. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">29</span>On the eighth day she shall take two turtledoves or two pigeons and bring them to the priest at the entrance of the tent of meeting. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">30</span>The priest shall offer one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make atonement on her behalf before the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> for her unclean discharge.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">31</span>Thus you shall keep the people of Israel separate from their uncleanness, so that they do not die in their uncleanness by defiling my tabernacle that is in their midst.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">32</span>This is the ritual for those who have a discharge: for him who has an emission of semen, becoming unclean thereby, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">33</span>for her who is in the infirmity of her period, for anyone, male or female, who has a discharge, and for the man who lies with a woman who is unclean.</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Leviticus 15:2">Leviticus 15:2</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>flesh</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Leviticus 15:3">Leviticus 15:3</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>flesh</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Leviticus 15:3">Leviticus 15:3</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>flesh</i></span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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