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Leviticus 15:13-25 Good News Bible Catholic Edition (GNBDK)

13. After the man is cured of his discharge, he must wait seven days and then wash his clothes and bathe in fresh spring water, and he will be ritually clean.

14. On the eighth day he shall take two doves or two pigeons to the entrance of the Tent of the Lord's presence and give them to the priest.

15. The priest shall offer one of them as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering. In this way he will perform the ritual of purification for the man.

16. When a man has an emission of semen, he must bathe his whole body, and he remains unclean until evening.

17. Anything made of cloth or leather on which the semen falls must be washed, and it remains unclean until evening.

18. After sexual intercourse both the man and the woman must have a bath, and they remain unclean until evening.

19. When a woman has her monthly period, she remains unclean for seven days. Anyone who touches her is unclean until evening.

20. Anything on which she sits or lies during her monthly period is unclean.

21-23. Anyone who touches her bed or anything on which she has sat must wash his clothes and have a bath, and he remains unclean until evening.

24. If a man has sexual intercourse with her during her period, he is contaminated by her impurity and remains unclean for seven days, and any bed on which he lies is unclean.

25. If a woman has a flow of blood for several days outside her monthly period or if her flow continues beyond her regular period, she remains unclean as long as the flow continues, just as she is during her monthly period.

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