Leviticus
Chapter 15
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1God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. spoke to Moses and to Aaron:
2Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, When any man has a flow from his body, his flow makes him unclean.
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Zav is a man with a flow. Zov is the flow itself, from his body. The Hebrew does not name a modern illness.
3This shall be his uncleanness in his flow: his body runs with his flow, or his body has sealed off his flow. It is his uncleanness.
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Rar is that the body runs with the flow. Hechtim is that the body has sealed the flow shut. Both are his uncleanness.
4Every bed the man with the flow lies on shall be unclean, and every article he sits on shall be unclean.
5A man who touches his bed shall wash his clothes, wash in water, and be unclean until evening.
6Whoever sits on the article the man with the flow sits on shall wash his clothes, wash in water, and be unclean until evening.
7Whoever touches the body of the man with the flow shall wash his clothes, wash in water, and be unclean until evening.
8If the man with the flow spits on a clean person, that person shall wash his clothes, wash in water, and be unclean until evening.
9Every saddle the man with the flow rides on shall be unclean.
10Whoever touches anything that was under him shall be unclean until evening. Whoever carries those things shall wash his clothes, wash in water, and be unclean until evening.
11Anyone the man with the flow touches, if he has not rinsed his hands in water, shall wash his clothes, wash in water, and be unclean until evening.
12A clay vessel that the man with the flow touches shall be broken, and any wooden vessel shall be rinsed in water.
13When the man with the flow is clean from his flow, he shall count seven days for his cleansing, wash his clothes, and wash his body in living water, and he shall be clean.
14On the eighth day he shall take for himself two turtledoves or two young pigeons and come before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., to the entrance of the tent of meeting, and give them to the priest.
15The priest shall make them, one an offense offering and one a whole offering. The priest shall make Making someone right with God after a wrong. for him before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. because of his flow.
16When an emission of seed goes out from a man, he shall wash all his body in water and be unclean until evening.
17Every garment and every skin that has an emission of seed on it shall be washed in water and be unclean until evening.
18A woman whom a man lies with, an emission of seed: they shall wash in water and be unclean until evening.
19When a woman has a flow, blood being her flow in her body, she shall be in her menstrual separation seven days. Whoever touches her shall be unclean until evening.
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Niddah is menstrual separation, as in the childbirth chapter. The seven days are the days of that separation.
20Everything she lies on in her menstrual separation shall be unclean, and everything she sits on shall be unclean.
21Whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes, wash in water, and be unclean until evening.
22Whoever touches any article she sits on shall wash his clothes, wash in water, and be unclean until evening.
23If it is on the bed, or on the article she is sitting on, when he touches it he shall be unclean until evening.
24If a man does lie with her, and her menstrual separation comes on him, he shall be unclean seven days, and every bed he lies on shall be unclean.
25When a woman has a flow of her blood for many days, not at the time of her menstrual separation, or when she flows beyond her menstrual separation, all the days of the flow of her uncleanness she shall be unclean, as in the days of her menstrual separation.
26Every bed she lies on all the days of her flow shall be like the bed of her menstrual separation, and every article she sits on shall be unclean, like the uncleanness of her menstrual separation.
27Whoever touches them shall be unclean. He shall wash his clothes, wash in water, and be unclean until evening.
28If she is clean from her flow, she shall count seven days for herself, and after that she shall be clean.
29On the eighth day she shall take for herself two turtledoves or two young pigeons and bring them to the priest, to the entrance of the tent of meeting.
30The priest shall make one an offense offering and one a whole offering. The priest shall make Making someone right with God after a wrong. for her before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. because of the flow of her uncleanness.
31You shall keep the sons of Israel away from their uncleanness, so they do not die in their uncleanness by making my dwelling unclean, the one that is in their midst.
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Hizartem is to hold them back, to keep them away from their uncleanness. Mishkan is the dwelling, as in Exodus.
32This is the instruction for the man with a flow, and for the one from whom an emission of seed goes out, so that he becomes unclean by it,
33and for the one who is unwell in her menstrual separation, and for the one who has a flow, whether male or female, and for the man who lies with an unclean woman.
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Davah is the woman unwell in her menstrual separation. The last clause is the man who lies with a woman who is unclean.