The Uncleanness of Men
(Deuteronomy 23:9–14)

1And YHWH spoke unto Moses and to Aaron, saying, 2“Speak to the sons of Israel, and you shall say to them, ‘Any man—when there is a discharge from his flesh his discharge—it is unclean. 3And this shall be his uncleanness in regard to his discharge—whether his flesh runs with his discharge, or his flesh is stopped up from his discharge; it is his uncleanness.

4Every bed on which the one discharging lies is unclean, and every vessel that he sits on shall be unclean. 5And a man that touches his bed shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe in the water, and he shall be unclean until the evening. 6And the one sitting on the vessel on which the one discharging sits shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe in the water, and he shall be unclean until the evening.

7And the one touching the flesh of the one discharging shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe in the water, and he shall be unclean until the evening. 8And if the one discharging spits on one who is clean, then he shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe in the water, and he shall be unclean until the evening.

9And any saddle on which the one discharging rides shall be unclean. 10And anyone who touches anything that was under him shall be unclean until the evening, and the one carrying them shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe in the water, and he shall be unclean until the evening.

11And all who touch against the one discharging, and his hands he has not rinsed in the water, then he shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe in the water, and he shall be unclean until the evening. 12And the earthen vessel that the one discharging touches, shall be broken, and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in the water.

The Cleansing of Men

13And when the one discharging is clean from his discharge, then he shall count for himself seven days for his cleansing, and he shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in living water,† and he shall be clean. 14And on the eighth day he shall take for himself two turtledoves or two sons of a pigeon, and he shall come before the face of YHWH to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and he shall give them to the priest. 15And the priest shall do them, one as a sin offering and the one as a burnt offering; and the priest shall make atonement upon him before the face of YHWH from his discharge.

16And if a man’s seed from lying goes out from him, then he shall wash in the water all his flesh, and he shall be unclean until the evening. 17And every garment and every skin on which there is seed from lying, it shall be washed with the water, and it shall be unclean until the evening. 18And a woman that a man lies with, and there is seed from lying, then they shall bathe in the water, and they be unclean until the evening.

The Uncleanness of Women

19And a woman—when she is discharging, her discharge consisting of blood from her flesh, she shall be in her menstruation seven days, and anyone who touches her shall be unclean until the evening. 20And everything on which she lies in her menstruation shall be unclean, and everything on which she sits shall be unclean. 21And anyone who touches her bed shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe in the water, and he shall be unclean until the evening.

22And anyone who touches any vessel on which she sits shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe in the water, and he shall be unclean until the evening. 23And if it is on the bed, or on the vessel that she sits upon, in his touching it he shall be unclean until the evening.

24And if any man really lies with her, and her menstruation is on him, then he shall be unclean seven days; and every bed that he lies upon shall be unclean.

25And a woman—when her discharge is a discharge of her blood for many days, not in the time of her menstruation, or if she discharges beyond her menstruation, all the days of the discharge of her uncleanness shall be like the days of her menstruation; she is unclean. 26Every bed on which she lies all the days of her discharge shall be to her like the bed of her menstruation, and every vessel on which she sits shall be unclean like the uncleanness of her menstruation. 27And anyone who touches them shall be unclean, and he shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe in the water, and he shall be unclean until the evening.

The Cleansing of Women

28And if she is clean from her discharge, then she shall count for herself seven days, and afterward she shall be clean. 29And on the eighth day she shall take for herself two turtledoves or two sons of a pigeon, and she shall bring them to the priest, to the door of the Tent of Meeting. 30And the priest shall do the one as a sin offering and the one as a burnt offering, and the priest shall make atonement upon her before the face of YHWH from the discharge of her uncleanness.

31And you⁺ shall separate the sons of Israel from their uncleanness, and they shall not die in their uncleanness when they defile My tabernacle that is in their midst.

32This is the law of the one discharging, and of the one whose seed from lying goes from him, to be unclean by it, 33and the menstruating woman in her menstruation, and the one discharging his discharge, for the male and for the female, and for a man who lies with an unclean woman.’”