² “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When any man has an unusual bodily discharge,^(A) such a discharge is unclean.

²⁹ May his blood^(A) fall on the head of Joab and on his whole family!^(B) May Joab’s family never be without someone who has a running sore^(C) or leprosy^[a] or who leans on a crutch or who falls by the sword or who lacks food.”

² “Command the Israelites to send away from the camp anyone who has a defiling skin disease^[a](A) or a discharge^(B) of any kind, or who is ceremonially unclean^(C) because of a dead body.^(D)

⁴ “‘If a descendant of Aaron has a defiling skin disease^[a] or a bodily discharge,^(A) he may not eat the sacred offerings until he is cleansed. He will also be unclean if he touches something defiled by a corpse^(B) or by anyone who has an emission of semen,

²⁰ Just then a woman who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak.^(A)

² Much in every way!^(A) First of all, the Jews have been entrusted with the very words of God.^(B)

⁴³ And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding^(A) for twelve years,^[a] but no one could heal her.

²⁰ He went on: “What comes out of a person is what defiles them. ²¹ For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder, ²² adultery, greed,^(A) malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. ²³ All these evils come from inside and defile a person.”

²⁵ And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding^(A) for twelve years.