Leviticus 15:1-12

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

Concerning Bodily Discharges

15 The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, ² “Speak to the Israelites and say to them:

“When any man has a discharge from his member,^[a] his discharge makes him unclean.^{(A) 3} The uncleanness of his discharge is this: whether his member^[b] flows with its discharge or is stopped from discharging, he is unclean during the entire period his member^[c] flows or is stopped from discharging; this is his uncleanness.^{[d] 4} Every bed on which the one with the discharge lies shall be unclean, and everything on which he sits shall be unclean. ⁵ Anyone who touches his bed shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until the evening. ⁶ All who sit on anything on which the one with the discharge has sat shall wash their clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until the evening. ⁷ All who touch the body of the one with the discharge shall wash their clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until the evening.^{(B) 8} If the one with the discharge spits on persons who are clean, then they shall wash their clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until the evening. ⁹ Any saddle on which the one with the discharge rides shall be unclean. ¹⁰ All who touch anything that was under him shall be unclean until the evening, and all who carry such a thing shall wash their clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until the evening.^{(C) 11} All those whom the one with the discharge touches without his having rinsed his hands in water shall wash their clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until the evening. ¹² Any clay vessel that the one with the discharge touches shall be broken, and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.^(D)