Leviticus 15:1-15

Contemporary English Version

Sexual Uncleanness

15 The Lord told Moses and Aaron ² to say to the community of Israel:

Any man with an infected penis is unclean, ³ whether it is stopped up or keeps dripping. ⁴ Anything that he rests on or sits on is also unclean, ^5-7 and if you touch either these or him, you must wash your clothes and take a bath, but you still remain unclean until evening.

⁸ If you are spit on by the man, you must wash your clothes and take a bath, but you still remain unclean until evening. ^9-10 Any saddle or seat on which the man sits is unclean. And if you touch or carry either of these, you must wash your clothes and take a bath, but you still remain unclean until evening. ¹¹ If the man touches you without first washing his hands, you must wash your clothes and take a bath, but you still remain unclean until evening. ¹² Any clay pot that he touches must be destroyed, and any wooden bowl that he touches must be washed.

¹³ Seven days after the man gets well, he will be considered clean, if he washes his clothes and takes a bath in spring water. ¹⁴ On the eighth day he must bring either two doves or two pigeons to the front of my sacred tent and give them to a priest. ¹⁵ The priest will offer one of the birds as a sacrifice for sin and the other as a sacrifice to please me,^[a] then I will consider the man completely clean.