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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//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 CEV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><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="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">CEV</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">Contemporary English Version</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s1">Sexual Uncleanness</h3><p class="par"><span class="v2_15_1"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.15.1" class="v2_15_1">1</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> told Moses and Aaron </span><span class="v2_15_2"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.15.2" class="v2_15_2">2</span>to say to the community of Israel:</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v2_15_2">Any man with an infected penis is unclean, </span><span class="v2_15_3"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.15.3" class="v2_15_3">3</span>whether it is stopped up or keeps dripping. </span><span class="v2_15_4"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.15.4" class="v2_15_4">4</span>Anything that he rests on or sits on is also unclean, </span><span class="v2_15_5"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.15.5-Lev.15.7" class="v2_15_5">5-7</span>and if you touch either these or him, you must wash your clothes and take a bath, but you still remain unclean until evening.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v2_15_8"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.15.8" class="v2_15_8">8</span>If you are spit on by the man, you must wash your clothes and take a bath, but you still remain unclean until evening. </span><span class="v2_15_9"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.15.9-Lev.15.10" class="v2_15_9">9-10</span>Any saddle or seat on which the man sits is unclean. And if you touch or carry either of these, you must wash your clothes and take a bath, but you still remain unclean until evening. </span><span class="v2_15_11"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.15.11" class="v2_15_11">11</span>If the man touches you without first washing his hands, you must wash your clothes and take a bath, but you still remain unclean until evening. </span><span class="v2_15_12"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.15.12" class="v2_15_12">12</span>Any clay pot that he touches must be destroyed, and any wooden bowl that he touches must be washed.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v2_15_13"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.15.13" class="v2_15_13">13</span>Seven days after the man gets well, he will be considered clean, if he washes his clothes and takes a bath in spring water. </span><span class="v2_15_14"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.15.14" class="v2_15_14">14</span>On the eighth day he must bring either two doves or two pigeons to the front of my sacred tent and give them to a priest. </span><span class="v2_15_15"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.15.15" class="v2_15_15">15</span>The priest will offer one of the birds as a sacrifice for sin and the other as a sacrifice to please me,<a href="#fn" id="link_Lev.15.15!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> then I will consider the man completely clean.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v2_15_16"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.15.16" class="v2_15_16">16</span>Any man who has a flow of semen must take a bath, but he still remains unclean until evening. </span><span class="v2_15_17"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.15.17" class="v2_15_17">17</span>If the semen touches anything made of cloth or leather, these must be washed, but they still remain unclean until evening. </span><span class="v2_15_18"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.15.18" class="v2_15_18">18</span>After having sex, both the man and the woman must take a bath, but they still remain unclean until evening.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v2_15_19"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.15.19" class="v2_15_19">19</span>When a woman has her monthly period, she remains unclean for seven days, and if you touch her, you must take a bath, but you remain unclean until evening. </span><span class="v2_15_20"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.15.20-Lev.15.23" class="v2_15_20">20-23</span>Anything that she rests on or sits on is also unclean, and if you touch either of these, you must wash your clothes and take a bath, but you still remain unclean until evening. </span><span class="v2_15_24"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.15.24" class="v2_15_24">24</span>Any man who has sex with her during this time becomes unclean for seven days, and anything he rests on is also unclean.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v2_15_25"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.15.25" class="v2_15_25">25</span>Any woman who has a flow of blood outside her regular monthly period is unclean until it stops, just as she is during her monthly period. </span><span class="v2_15_26"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.15.26" class="v2_15_26">26</span>Anything that she rests on or sits on during this time is also unclean, just as it would be during her period. </span><span class="v2_15_27"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.15.27" class="v2_15_27">27</span>If you touch either of these, you must wash your clothes and take a bath, but you still remain unclean until evening.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v2_15_28"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.15.28" class="v2_15_28">28</span>Seven days after the woman gets well, she will be considered clean. </span><span class="v2_15_29"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.15.29" class="v2_15_29">29</span>On the eighth day, she must bring either two doves or two pigeons to the front of my sacred tent and give them to a priest. </span><span class="v2_15_30"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.15.30" class="v2_15_30">30</span>He will offer one of the birds as a sacrifice for sin and the other as a sacrifice to please me; then I will consider the woman completely clean.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v2_15_31"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.15.31" class="v2_15_31">31</span>When any of you are unclean, you must stay away from the rest of the community of Israel. Otherwise, my sacred tent will become unclean, and the whole nation will die.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v2_15_32"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.15.32-Lev.15.33" class="v2_15_32">32-33</span>These are the things you men must do if you become unclean because of an infected penis or if you have a flow of semen. And these are the things you women must do when you become unclean either because of your monthly period or an unusual flow of blood. This is also what you men must do if you have sex with a woman who is unclean.</span></p> <a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">15.15 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">sacrifice to please me: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See the note at 1.1-3.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Contemporary English Version, Second Edition (CEV®)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 2006 American Bible Society. All rights reserved.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Bible text from the Contemporary English Version 2nd Edition (CEV®) is not to be reproduced in copies or otherwise by any means except as permitted in writing by American Bible Society, 101 North Independence Mall East, Floor 8, Philadelphia, PA 19106-2155 (<a href="http://www.americanbible.org">www.americanbible.org</a>). 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