Leviticus 15

1 And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

Yahweh also said to Moses/me and Aaron,

2 Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When any man hath a running issue out of his flesh, [because of] his issue he [is] unclean.

“Tell this to the Israelis: When an infected discharge comes out of a man’s sexual organs [EUP], that fluid should not be touched.

3 And this shall be his uncleanness in his issue: whether his flesh shall run with his issue, or his flesh be stopped from his issue, it [is] his uncleanness.

Whether that fluid is blocked or continues to drip, it causes him to be someone who should not be touched.

4 Every bed on which he lieth that hath the issue, is unclean: and every thing on which he sitteth, shall be unclean.

“And any bed that such a man lies on should not be touched, and anything that he sits on should not be touched.

5 And whoever toucheth his bed, shall wash his clothes, and bathe [himself] in water, and be unclean until the evening.

Anyone who touches that person’s bed must wash his clothes and bathe, and no one should touch him until that evening.

6 And he that sitteth on [any] thing on which he sat that hath the issue, shall wash his clothes, and bathe [himself] in water, and be unclean until the evening.

Anyone who sits on something that man has sat on must wash his clothes and bathe, and no one should touch him until that evening.

7 And he that toucheth the flesh of him that hath the issue, shall wash his clothes, and bathe [himself] in water, and be unclean until the evening.

“Anyone who touches such a man must wash his clothes and bathe, and no one should touch him until that evening.

8 And if he that hath the issue shall spit upon him that is clean; then he shall wash his clothes, and bathe [himself] in water, and be unclean until the evening.

“If such a man spits on someone else, that person who is spit upon should not be touched. He must wash his clothes, and no one should touch him until that evening.

9 And whatever saddle he rideth upon that hath the issue, shall be unclean.

“Everything that a man who has such a discharge of fluid sits on while he is riding [a horse or a donkey] should not be touched,

10 And whoever toucheth any thing that was under him shall be unclean until the evening; and he that beareth [any of] those things, shall wash his clothes, and bathe [himself] in water, and be unclean until the evening.

and anyone who touches the seat or saddle that he was sitting on also should not be touched until that evening. And anyone who picks up the seat or saddle must wash his clothes and bathe, and no one should touch him until that evening.

11 And whomsoever he toucheth that hath the issue (and hath not rinsed his hands in water) he shall wash his clothes, and bathe [himself] in water, and be unclean until the evening.

Anyone whom the man with such a discharge of fluid from his body touches without first rinsing his hands in water must wash his clothes and bathe, and no one should touch him until that evening.

12 And the vessel of earth that he toucheth who hath the issue, shall be broken: and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.

“If such a man touches a clay pot, that pot must be broken into pieces. Anything made from wood that he touches must be rinsed in water.

13 And when he that hath an issue is cleansed of his issue; then he shall number to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean.

“If such a man is healed from his flow of fluid, he must wait for seven days. Then he must wash his clothes and bathe in water from a spring. Then he will be able to be with others.

14 And on the eighth day he shall take to him two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, and come before the LORD to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and give them to the priest:

On the eighth/next day, he must take two doves or two young pigeons and come in front of Yahweh at the entrance of the Sacred Tent, and give them to the priest.

15 And the priest shall offer them, the one [for] a sin-offering, and the other [for] a burnt-offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for him before the LORD for his issue.

The priest will sacrifice them. One will be an offering for the man to become acceptable to God, and the other one will be completely burned [on the altar]. As a result of the priest doing that, the man will be forgiven for having sinned.

16 And if any man's seed of copulation shall go from him, then he shall wash all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the evening.

“Then semen accidentally flows from a man’s sexual organs [EUP], he must bathe his whole body, and no one should touch him until that evening.

17 And every garment, and every skin on which is the seed of copulation, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the evening.

Any clothing or leather that has semen on it must be washed, and no one should touch it until that evening.

18 The woman also with whom man shall lie [with] seed of copulation, they shall [both] bathe [themselves] in water, and be unclean until the evening.

When a man has sex with a woman and some semen spills, both of them must bathe, and no one should touch them until that evening.

19 And if a woman shall have an issue, [and] her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be put apart seven days: and whoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the evening.

“Then a woman has her monthly menstrual period, no one should touch her for seven days. If anyone touches her [during that time], no one should touch the person who touched her until that evening.

20 And every thing that she lieth upon in her separation shall be unclean: every thing also that she sitteth upon shall be unclean.

No one should touch anything that she lies on or sits on during that time.

21 And whoever toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe [himself] in water, and be unclean until the evening.

Anyone who touches her bed must wash his clothes and bathe, and no one should touch that person until that evening.

22 And whoever toucheth any thing that she sat upon shall wash his clothes, and bathe [himself] in water, and be unclean until the evening.

Anyone who touches something that she has been sitting on, a bed or anything else, must wash his clothes, and no one should touch that person until that evening.

23 And if it [be] on [her] bed, or on any thing on which she sitteth, when he toucheth it, he shall be unclean until the evening.

24 And if any man shall lie with her at all, and her flowers be upon him, he shall be unclean seven days: and all the bed on which he lieth shall be unclean.

“If a man has sex with a woman [during that time] and some of the menstrual blood touches him, no one should touch him for seven days, and no one should touch the bed that he lies on.

25 And if a woman shall have an issue of her blood many days out of the time of her separation, or if it shall run beyond the time of her separation; all the days of the issue of her uncleanness shall be as the days of her separation: she [shall be] unclean.

“Then a woman has a vaginal discharge of blood for (many days/a long time), which is not her monthly flow of blood, or if her flow of blood continues after her monthly flow ends, no one should touch her until it stops.

26 Every bed on which she lieth all the days of her issue shall be to her as the bed of her separation: and whatever she sitteth upon shall be unclean as the uncleanness of her separation.

And no one should touch the bed that she lies on or anything that she sits on while that flow of blood continues, just like during her monthly menstrual period.

27 And whoever toucheth those things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe [himself] in water, and be unclean until the evening.

Anyone who touches those things should not touch anyone else; he must wash his clothes and bathe, and he should not touch anyone else until that evening.

28 But if she shall be cleansed of her issue, then she shall number to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean.

“After a woman’s monthly menstrual flow ends, she must wait seven days before she touches anyone.

29 And on the eighth day she shall take to her two turtles, or two young pigeons, and bring them to the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

On the eighth/next day, she must take two doves or two pigeons to the priest at the entrance of the Sacred Tent.

30 And the priest shall offer the one [for] a sin-offering, and the other [for] a burnt-offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for her before the LORD for the issue of her uncleanness.

The priest will sacrifice one of them to be an offering to enable her to become acceptable to Yahweh again, and completely burn the other one [on the altar]. By doing that he will cause me, Yahweh, to forgive her for having sinned [DOU].

31 Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness: that they die not in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that [is] among them.

“You must warn the Israeli people not to do things that (defile them/cause them to be unacceptable to me). If they become (unacceptable to me/defiled), they will cause my Sacred Tent which is among them to become an unacceptable place to worship me, and as a result they will die.”

32 This [is] the law of him that hath an issue, and [of him] whose seed goeth from him, and [he] is defiled therewith.

“Those are the regulations for a man who has a fluid that flows from his sexual organs or who should not be touched because some of his semen spills out while having sex [with a woman],

33 And of her that is sick of her flowers, and of him that hath an issue, of the man and of the woman, and of him that lieth with her that is unclean.

and for any woman during her monthly menstrual period, and for any man who has sex with a woman during her menstrual period.”