Catholic Public Domain Version

Leviticus 15:12-28 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

12. If he has touched an earthen vessel, it shall be broken. But if it is a wooden vessel, it shall be washed with water.

13. If he who suffers from this affliction will have been healed, he shall number seven days after his cleansing, and having washed his clothes and his entire body in living water, he shall be clean.

14. Then, on the eighth day, he shall take two turtledoves or two young pigeons, and he shall advance, in the sight of the Lord, toward the door of the tabernacle of the testimony, and he shall give these to the priest,

15. who shall offer one for sin, and the other as a holocaust. And he shall pray for him before the Lord, so that he may be cleansed from the flow of his seed.

16. A man from whom the seed of sexual intercourse goes out shall wash his entire body with water, and he shall be unclean until evening.

17. The garment or skin which he will have, he shall wash with water, and it shall be unclean until evening.

18. The woman with whom he has had sexual intercourse shall be washed with water, and she shall be unclean until evening.

19. The woman who, at the return of the month, undergoes the flow of blood shall be separated for seven days.

20. All who will touch her shall be unclean until evening.

21. And everything on which she sleeps or sits, in the days of her separation, shall be polluted.

22. Whoever will have touched her bed shall wash his clothes, and having washed himself with water, he shall be unclean until evening.

23. Anyone who will have touched any item on which she has sat shall wash his clothes, and having washed himself with water, he shall be polluted until evening.

24. If a man has sexual intercourse with her in the time of her monthly flow of blood, he shall be unclean for seven days, and every bed on which he sleeps shall be polluted.

25. The woman who undergoes a flow of blood many days beyond her time of menstruation, or whose blood does not cease to flow after the menstrual blood, as long as she is subject to this affliction, she shall be unclean, just as if she were in her time of menstruation.

26. Every bed on which she sleeps, and every item on which she sits, shall be polluted.

27. Whoever will have touched these shall wash his clothes, and having washed himself with water, he shall be unclean until evening.

28. If the blood has stopped and has ceased to flow, she shall number seven days for her purification,