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Leviticus 15:5-20 Good News Bible (GNB)

5. Anyone who touches his bed

6. or sits on anything the man has sat on must wash his clothes and have a bath, and he remains unclean until evening.

7. Anyone who touches the man with the discharge must wash his clothes and have a bath, and he remains unclean until evening.

8. If the man with the discharge spits on anyone who is ritually clean, that person must wash his clothes and have a bath, and he remains unclean until evening.

9. Any saddle or seat on which the man with the discharge sits is unclean.

10. Anyone who touches anything on which the man sat is unclean until evening. Anyone who carries anything on which the man sat must wash his clothes and have a bath, and he remains unclean until evening.

11. If a man who has a discharge touches someone without first having washed his hands, that person must wash his clothes and have a bath, and he remains unclean until evening.

12. Any clay pot that the man touches must be broken, and any wooden bowl that he touches must be washed.

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.

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