1. And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:
2. Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: The man that hath an issue of seed, shall be unclean.
3. And then shall he be judged subject to this evil, when a filthy humour, at every moment, cleaveth to his flesh, and gathereth there.
4. Every bed on which he sleepeth, shall be unclean, and every place on which he sitteth.
5. If ally man touch his bed, he shall wash his clothes: and being washed with water, he shall be unclean until the evening.
6. If a man sit where that man hath sitten, he also shall wash his clothes: and being washed with water, shall be unclean until the evening.
7. He that toucheth his flesh, shall wash his clothes: and being himself washed with water shall be unclean until the evening.
8. If such a man cast his spittle upon him that is clean, he shall wash his clothes: and being washed with water, he shall be unclean until the evening.
9. The saddle on which he hath sitten shall be unclean.
10. And whatsoever has been under him that hath the issue of seed, shall be unclean until the evening. He that carrieth any of these things, shall wash his clothes: and being washed with water, he shall be unclean until the evening.
11. Every person whom such a one shall touch, not having washed his hands before, shall wash his clothes: and being washed with water, shall be unclean until the evening.
12. If he touch a vessel of earth, it shall be broken: but if a vessel of wood, if shall be washed with water.
13. If he who suffereth this disease be healed, he shall number seven days after his cleansing, and having washed his clothes, and all his body in living water, he shall be clean.
14. And on the eighth day he shall take two turtles, or two young pigeons, and he shall come before the Lord, to the door of the tabernacle of the testimony, and shall give them to the priest:
15. Who shall offer one for sin, and the other for a holocaust: and he shall pray for him before the Lord, that he may be cleansed of the issue of his seed.
16. The man from whom the seed of copulation goeth out, shall wash all his body with water: and he shall be unclean until the evening.
17. The garment or skin that he weareth, he shall wash with water, and it shall be unclean until the evening.