Catholic Public Domain Version

Leviticus 15:8-22 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

8. If such a man has cast his spittle upon him who is clean, he shall wash his clothes, and having washed with water, he shall be unclean until evening.

9. The saddle on which he has sat shall be unclean.

10. And whatever has been under him who has undergone a flow of seed shall be polluted until evening. Whoever carries any of these things shall wash his clothes, and having washed with water, he shall be unclean until evening.

11. All whom such a one has touched, not having washed his hands before, shall wash his clothes, and having washed with water, he shall be unclean until evening.

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.