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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 ESV</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="../">ESV</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">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/leviticus/15.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Laws About Bodily Discharges</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/15-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/15-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When any man has a discharge from his body,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew flesh; also verse 3">a</a></sup></span> his discharge is unclean. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/15-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/15-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Every bed on which the one with the discharge lies shall be unclean, and everything on which he sits shall be unclean. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/15-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And anyone who touches his bed shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/15-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/15-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/15-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/15-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And any saddle on which the one with the discharge rides shall be unclean. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/15-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/15-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/15-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And an earthenware vessel that the one with the discharge touches shall be broken, and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/15-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“And when the one with a discharge is cleansed of his discharge, then he 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/15-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And on the eighth day he shall take two turtledoves or two pigeons and come before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> to the entrance of 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>And the priest shall use them, one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. And the priest shall make atonement for him before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> for his discharge.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/15-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>“If a man has an emission of semen, he shall bathe his whole body in water and be unclean until the evening. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/15-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And every garment and every skin on which the semen comes shall be washed with water and be unclean until the evening. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/15-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>If a man lies with a woman and has an emission of semen, both of them shall bathe themselves in water and be unclean until the evening.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/15-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>“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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/15-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And everything on which she lies during her menstrual impurity shall be unclean. Everything also on which she sits shall be unclean. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/15-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/15-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And whoever touches anything on which she sits shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the 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 on which she sits, when he touches it he shall be unclean until the evening. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/15-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And if 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.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/15-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>“If a 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/15-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/15-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And whoever touches these things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/15-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>But if she is cleansed of her discharge, she shall count for herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/15-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And on the eighth day she shall take two turtledoves or two pigeons and bring them to the priest, to the entrance of the tent of meeting. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/15-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>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 <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> for her unclean discharge.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/15-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>“Thus you shall keep the people of Israel separate from their uncleanness, lest they die in their uncleanness by defiling my tabernacle that is in their midst.”</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/15-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>This is the law for him who has a discharge and for him who has an emission of semen, becoming unclean thereby; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/15-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>also for her who is unwell with her menstrual impurity, that is, for anyone, male or female, who has a discharge, and for the man who lies with a woman who is unclean.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">2</span> Hebrew <i>flesh</i>; also verse 3<br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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