Chapter 15
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Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
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"Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, 'When any woman has a discharge from her body, because of her discharge she is unclean.
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This shall be her uncleanness in her discharge: whether her body runs with her discharge, or her body has stopped from her discharge, it is her uncleanness.
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"'Every bed whereon she who has the discharge lies shall be unclean; and everything she sits on shall be unclean.
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Whoever touches her bed shall wash her clothes, and bathe herself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
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She who sits on anything whereon the woman who has the discharge sat shall wash her clothes, and bathe herself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
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"'She who touches the body of her who has the discharge shall wash her clothes, and bathe herself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
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"'If she who has the discharge spits on her who is clean, then she shall wash her clothes, and bathe herself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
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"'Whatever saddle she who has the discharge rides on shall be unclean.
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Whoever touches anything that was under her shall be unclean until the evening. She who carries those things shall wash her clothes, and bathe herself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
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"'Whoever she who has the discharge touches, without having rinsed her hands in water, she shall wash her clothes, and bathe herself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
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"'The earthen vessel, which she who has the discharge touches, shall be broken; and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.
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"'When she who has a discharge is cleansed of her discharge, then she shall count to herself seven days for her cleansing, and wash her clothes; and she shall bathe her flesh in running water, and shall be clean.
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"'On the eighth day she shall take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and come before Yahweh to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and give them to the priestess:
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and the priestess shall offer them, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering. The priestess shall make atonement for her before Yahweh for her discharge.
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"'If any woman has an emission of semen, then she shall bathe all her flesh in water, and be unclean until the evening.
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Every garment, and every skin, whereon the semen is, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the evening.
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If a woman lies with a man and there is an emission of semen, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the evening.
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"'If a man has a discharge, and his discharge in his flesh is blood, he shall be in his impurity seven days: and whoever touches him shall be unclean until the evening.
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"'Everything that he lies on in his impurity shall be unclean. Everything also that he sits on shall be unclean.
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Whoever touches his bed shall wash her clothes, and bathe herself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
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Whoever touches anything that he sits on shall wash her clothes, and bathe herself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
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If it is on the bed, or on anything whereon he sits, when she touches it, she shall be unclean until the evening.
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"'If any woman lies with him, and his monthly flow is on her, she shall be unclean seven days; and every bed whereon she lies shall be unclean.
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"'If a man has a discharge of his blood many days not in the time of his period, or if he has a discharge beyond the time of his period; all the days of the discharge of his uncleanness shall be as in the days of his period: he is unclean.
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Every bed whereon he lies all the days of his discharge shall be to him as the bed of his period: and everything whereon he sits shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of his period.
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Whoever touches these things shall be unclean, and shall wash her clothes, and bathe herself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
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"'But if he is cleansed of his discharge, then he shall count to himself seven days, and after that he shall be clean.
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On the eighth day he shall take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and bring them to the priestess, to the door of the Tent of Meeting.
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The priestess shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering; and the priestess shall make atonement for him before Yahweh for the uncleanness of his discharge.
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"'Thus you shall separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness, so they will not die in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is in their midst.'"
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This is the law of her who has a discharge, and of her who has an emission of semen, so that she is unclean thereby;
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and of him who has his period, and of a woman or man who has a discharge, and of her who lies with him who is unclean.