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1 And Jehovah spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,
2 Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, When any man has an issue from his flesh; he is unclean because of his issue.
3 And this shall be his uncleanness in his issue. His flesh has run with his issue, or his flesh is ceased from his issue, it is his uncleanness.
4 Every bed on which he who issues lies is unclean. And everything on which he sits shall be unclean.
5 And whoever touches his bed shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening.
6 And he that sits on any thing on which he who issues sat shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening.
7 And he that touches the flesh of him who issues shall wash his clothes, and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening.
8 And if he who issues spits on him that is clean, then he shall wash his clothes, and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening.
9 And whatever saddle he who issues rides on shall be unclean.
10 And whoever touches anything that was under him shall be unclean until the evening. And he that carries any of those things shall wash his clothes, and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening.
11 And whomever he who issues touches, and has not rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening.
12 And the earthen vessel that he who issues touches shall be broken. And every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.
13 And when he who issues is cleansed of his issue, then he shall number seven days to himself for his cleansing, and wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean.
14 And on the eighth day he shall take two turtle-doves to himself, or two young pigeons, and come before Jehovah to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and give them to the priest.
15 And the priest shall offer them, the one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. And the priest shall make an atonement for him before Jehovah for his issue.
16 And if any man's semen goes from him, then he shall wash all his flesh in water and be unclean until the evening.
17 And every garment and every skin on which the semen shall be, it shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the evening.
18 And the woman with whom a man shall lie with emission of semen shall both bathe in water and be unclean until the evening.
19 And if a woman has an issue, and her issue in her flesh is blood, she shall be in her impurity seven days. And whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening.
20 And everything that she lies on in her impurity shall be unclean. Everything also that she sits on shall be unclean.
21 And whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening.
22 And whoever touches anything that she sat on, shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening.
23 And if it is on the bed or on anything on which she sits, when he touches it, he shall be unclean until the evening.
24 And if any man lies with her at all, and her impurity is on him, he shall be unclean seven days. And every bed on which he lies shall be unclean.
25 And if a woman has an issue of her blood many days outside of the time of her impurity, or if she issues it beyond the time of her impurity, all the days of the issue of her uncleanness shall be as the days of her impurity. She is unclean.
26 Every bed on which she lies all the days of her issue shall be to her as the bed of her impurity. And whatever she sits on shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her impurity.
27 And whoever touches those things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening.
28 But if she is cleansed of her issue, then she shall number to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean.
29 And on the eighth day she shall take two turtle-doves to her, or two young pigeons, and bring them to the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
30 And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering. And the priest shall make atonement for her before Jehovah for the issue of her uncleanness.
31 So you shall separate the sons of Israel from their uncleanness, so that they do not die in their uncleanness when they defile My tabernacle that is among them.
32 This is the law of him that has an issue, and of him whose semen goes from him and is defiled with it,
33 and of her that is menstruating, and of him that has an issue, of the man, and of the woman, and of him that lies with an unclean woman.
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