Knox Bible

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And the Lord gave Moses and Aaron

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this message for the Israelites: The man who has a running of the reins is unclean.

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And he must still be considered unclean, even though his defilement, at certain times, dries up and causes a stoppage.

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Any bed he lies on, anything he sits on, becomes unclean.

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The man who touches his bed, must wash his garments and bathe, and hold himself unclean till sundown;

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and there is the same washing, and bathing, and uncleanness for the man who sits where he sat;

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the same washing, and bathing, and uncleanness, for the man who touches him;

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the same washing, and bathing, and uncleanness for the man on whom his spittle falls.

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Unclean the saddle on which he has ridden,

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unclean, till evening comes, everything on which the man so afflicted may rest; the same washing, and bathing, and uncleanness for anyone who carries it in his hands;

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the same washing, and bathing, and uncleanness for anyone whom he touches, unless he washes his hands first.

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Any earthen pot he touches must be broken, any bucket of wood he touches, rinsed with water.

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If a man so afflicted is healed, he must count seven days from the time of his healing,✻ and then, when he has washed his clothes and his whole body in spring water, he is clean.

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On the eighth day, he must bring two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, to the door of the tabernacle that bears record of me, and give them to the priest.

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The priest will sacrifice one as a victim for his fault, and the other as a burnt-sacrifice, and so make intercession for him in the Lord’s presence, that he may be clean from the defilement of his body.

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The man who loses the seed of procreation must wash his whole body in water, and remain unclean till evening comes;

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wash, too, in water his garment of stuff or of leather, and that too, till evening comes, is unclean.

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If he has had commerce with a woman, she too must wash, and she too, till evening comes, is unclean.

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The woman who loses blood, because her monthly time has come round, must remain a whole week apart;

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whoever touches her is unclean till sundown,

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and all she lies upon or sits upon during this time of separation, becomes defiled thereby.

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The man who touches her bed, must wash his garments, and bathe, and hold himself unclean till evening;

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and there is the same washing, and bathing, and uncleanness for anyone who touches any piece of furniture on which she has sat down to rest.

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If a man has commerce with her at her monthly time, he remains unclean for a whole week; unclean, too, is any bed on which he lies.

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A woman who loses blood continually at other times, or when her monthly time is over, must be considered unclean in the same way, as long as her affliction lasts;

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unclean the bed she sleeps on, and all that she rests on,

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unclean, till evening comes, everyone who has touched her, and meanwhile he must wash his garments and bathe in water.

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If the issue of her blood dries up, she must count seven days from the time of her healing,✻

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and on the eighth day she will bring two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, to the priest at the door of the tabernacle.

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The priest will sacrifice one as a victim for her fault, and the other as a burnt-sacrifice, and so make intercession for her in the Lord’s presence over the issue of blood that has defiled her.

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You must teach the sons of Israel to be on their guard against uncleanness; or they may be punished with death for the irreverence which has profaned my tabernacle, here in their midst.

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Such are the rules which concern men who are defiled by a running of the reins, or by intercourse with woman,

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and for women who must remain apart because of their monthly time, women who have a continuous issue of blood, and men with whom such women have commerce.