1. The lord said to Moses and Aaron,
2. “Give the following instructions to the people of Israel.“Any man who has a bodily discharge is ceremonially unclean.
3. This defilement is caused by his discharge, whether the discharge continues or stops. In either case the man is unclean.
4. Any bed on which the man with the discharge lies and anything on which he sits will be ceremonially unclean.
5. So if you touch the man’s bed, you must wash your clothes and bathe yourself in water, and you will remain unclean until evening.
6. If you sit where the man with the discharge has sat, you must wash your clothes and bathe yourself in water, and you will remain unclean until evening.
7. If you touch the man with the discharge, you must wash your clothes and bathe yourself in water, and you will remain unclean until evening.