Leviticus 15:16-33

Common English Bible

¹⁶ If it is an emission of semen, the man must bathe his whole body in water and will be unclean until evening. ¹⁷ Any clothing or skin on which there is an emission of semen must be washed in water and will be unclean until evening. ¹⁸ If a man lies with a woman and has an emission of semen, both of them must bathe in water and will be unclean until evening.

Female genital emissions

¹⁹ Whenever a woman has a discharge of blood that is her normal bodily discharge, she will be unclean due to her menstruation for seven days. Anyone who touches her will be unclean until evening. ²⁰ Anything on which she lies or sits during her menstruation will be unclean. ²¹ Anyone who touches her bed must wash their clothes, bathe in water, and will be unclean until evening. ²² Anyone who touches anything on which she has sat must wash their clothes, bathe in water, and will be unclean until evening. ²³ Whenever anyone touches something—whether it was on the bed or where she has been sitting—they will be unclean until evening. ²⁴ If a man has sexual intercourse with her and her menstruation gets on him, he will be unclean for seven days. Any bed he lies on will be unclean.

²⁵ Whenever a woman has a bloody discharge for a long time, which is not during her menstrual period, or whenever she has a discharge beyond her menstrual period, the duration of her unclean discharge will be like the period of her menstruation; she will be unclean.

²⁶ Any bed she lies on during the discharge should be treated like the bed she uses during her menstruation; and any object she sits on will be unclean, as during her menstruation. ²⁷ Anyone who touches these things will be unclean. They must wash their clothes, bathe in water, and will be unclean until evening.

²⁸ When the woman is cleansed of her discharge, she will count off seven days; after that, she will be clean again. ²⁹ On the eighth day she will take two turtledoves or two pigeons and bring them to the priest at the meeting tent’s entrance. ³⁰ The priest will perform a purification offering with one and an entirely burned offering with the other. In this way, the priest will make reconciliation for her before the Lord because of her unclean discharge.

³¹ You must separate the Israelites from their uncleanness so that they don’t die on account of it, by making my dwelling^[a] unclean, which is in their midst.

³² This concludes the Instruction concerning those with discharges: men with emissions of semen that make them unclean, ³³ women during their menstruation, men or women with discharges, and men who have had sexual intercourse with an unclean woman.