ויקרא ט״ו

GOD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying: Speak to the Israelite people and say to them:
When any man at all has a discharge issuing from his member,^amember Lit. “flesh.” he is impure. The impurity from his discharge shall mean the following—whether his member runs with the discharge or is stopped up so that there is no discharge, his impurity means this: Any bedding on which the one with the discharge lies shall be impure, and every object on which he sits shall be impure. Anyone who touches his bedding shall wash their clothes, bathe in water, and remain impure until evening. Whoever sits on an object on which the one with the discharge has sat shall wash their clothes, bathe in water, and remain impure until evening. Whoever touches the body of the one with the discharge shall wash their clothes, bathe in water, and remain impure until evening. If the one with a discharge spits on someone who is pure, the latter shall wash their clothes, bathe in water, and remain impure until evening. Any means for riding that the one with a discharge has mounted shall be impure; whoever touches anything that was under him shall be impure until evening; and whoever carries such things shall wash their clothes, bathe in water, and remain impure until evening. Whomever the one with a discharge touches, without having rinsed his hands in water, shall wash their clothes, bathe in water, and remain impure until evening. An earthen vessel that the one with a discharge touches shall be broken; and any wooden implement shall be rinsed with water. When the one with a discharge becomes purified of his discharge, he shall count off seven days for his purification, wash those clothes, and bathe in fresh water; then he shall be pure. On the eighth day he shall take two turtledoves or two pigeons and come before GOD at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting and give them to the priest. The priest shall offer them, the one as a purgation offering and the other as a burnt offering. Thus the priest shall make expiation on his behalf, for his discharge, before GOD. When a man has an emission of semen, he shall bathe his whole body in water and remain impure until evening. All cloth or leather on which semen falls shall be washed in water and remain impure until evening. And involving a woman: when a man has carnal relations with her, both shall bathe in water and remain impure until evening. When a woman has a discharge, her discharge being blood from her body, she shall remain in her menstrual separation seven days; whoever touches her shall be impure until evening. Anything that she lies on during her menstrual separation shall be impure; and anything that she sits on shall be impure. Anyone who touches her bedding shall wash their clothes, bathe in water, and remain impure until evening; and anyone who touches any object on which she has sat shall wash their clothes, bathe in water, and remain impure until evening. Be it the bedding or be it the object on which she has sat, on touching it one shall be impure until evening. And if a man lies with her, her menstrual separation applies to him; he shall be impure seven days, and any bedding on which he lies shall become impure. When a woman has had a discharge of blood for many days, not at the time of her menstrual separation, or when she has a discharge beyond her period of menstrual separation, she shall be impure, as though at the time of her menstrual separation, as long as her discharge lasts. Any bedding on which she lies while her discharge lasts shall be for her like bedding during her menstrual separation; and any object on which she sits shall become impure, as it does during her menstrual separation: whoever touches them shall be impure—and shall wash their clothes, bathe in water, and remain impure until evening. When she becomes purified of her discharge, she shall count off seven days, and after that she shall be pure. 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. The priest shall offer the one as a purgation offering and the other as a burnt offering; and the priest shall make expiation on her behalf, for her impure discharge, before GOD. You shall put the Israelites on guard against their impurity, lest they die through their impurity by defiling My Tabernacle that is among them. Such is the ritual concerning one who has a discharge: concerning him who has an emission of semen and becomes impure thereby; and concerning her whose condition is that of menstrual separation; and concerning anyone, male or female, who has a discharge; and concerning a man who lies with an impure woman.