For Men

When a man has a discharge from his body, his discharge is unclean. Whether his body runs with the discharge or his body is stopped up by the discharge, it is his uncleanness. Every bed he lays on and everything he sits on shall be unclean. Whoever touches his bed or sits on anything on which he who has the discharge sat, should wash his clothes and bathe in water and remain unclean until evening. If the one with the discharge spits on him who is clean, then he should wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until evening. Wow! God only addresses the discharge issue in the case of being spat on by someone. In today’s world having a bodily discharge would not be that person’s only issue. Any saddle on which he who has the discharge rides is unclean. Whoever touches anything that was under him is unclean until evening. Whoever carries any of those things should wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until evening. If the one with the discharge touches someone and had not rinsed his hands in water, that person should wash his clothes, bathe in water and be unclean until evening. Any earthen vessel the one with the discharge touched, should be broken and every wooden vessel should be rinsed in water. When the one with discharge is cleansed of it, he should count for himself seven days for his cleansing, wash his clothes and bathe his body in running water. Then he should be considered clean. On the eighth day, he should take two turtledoves or two young pigeons and go before the Lord to the door of the tabernacle of meeting and give them to the priest. The priest should offer one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering. The priest should make atonement for him before the Lord because of his discharge.

If any man has an emission of semen, then he should wash all of his body in water and be unclean until evening. If there is semen on any garment and any leather, it should be washed with water and be unclean until evening. When a woman laid with a man and there was emission of semen, both of them should bathe in water and be unclean until evening.

For Women

If a woman has a bloody discharge (menstrual cycle), she should be set apart seven days. Whoever touches her would be unclean until evening. Everything she lies or sits on during her period would be unclean. Whoever touches her bed or anything she sat on should wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until evening. If he touches anything that was on her bed or anything she sat on, he shall be unclean until evening. If any man lies with her at all, so that the blood of her period gets on him, he would be unclean for seven days. Every bed that he lies on will be unclean. If a woman’s discharge of blood is longer than usual, all the days of her bleeding will be as her normal period days. She will be unclean. Every bed she lays on and whatever she sits on will be unclean just as with her normal period. Whoever touches those things will be unclean. He would have to wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until evening.

If she is cleansed of her discharge, then she should count for herself seven days and after that, she will be clean. On the eighth day, she should take two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of meeting. The priest should offer one as a sin offering and the other one as a burnt offering. The priest should make atonement for her before the Lord for the discharge of her uncleanness.