Leviticus Chapter 15

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Leviticus, chapter fifteen. The Eternal One spoke to Moses and Aaron,
go talk with the Israelites and tell them that if
a man has any sort of a discharge from his body,
the discharge renders him impure. A man's discharge makes him impure,
regardless of whether his body allows it to flow out
of him or blocks its flow altogether. If the person

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with the discharge lies down in a bed or sits
down on a couch, it becomes impure. Any person who
has contact with that bed or that couch must wash
his clothes and bathe in water. He will remain impure
until dusk. Any person who touches the discharging man must
wash his or her clothes and bathe in water. He
will remain impure until dusk. If the discharging man spits

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on a person who is ritually clean, then that person
must wash his garments and bathe in water. He will
remain impure until dusk. If the discharging man rides on
a saddle, the riding saddle will be impure as well. Therefore,
if anyone touches any of the items that were under
the discharging man, then that person will be impure until dusk.
Whoever picks up and carries any of these items must

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wash his clothes and bathe in water. He will remain
impure until dusk. If the discharging man does not wash
his hands and touches another person, then that person must
wash his clothes and bathe in water. He will remain
impure until dusk. If the discharging man touches a clay cup,
then it must be shattered, but a wooden cup shall
be washed with water. Once the discharging man is healed,

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he must wait seven days to make sure the ailment
doesn't return. Before his ritual cleansing, he will wash his
clothes and bathe in running water so he can be
ritually pure again. And on the eighth day, he is
to bring two turtle doves or young pigeons into my
presence and hand them to the priest at the entrance
of the congregation tent. The priest will present the birds,

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one of them as a purification offering for sin, the
other as a burnt offering. The priest will come before
me and cover the impurity of the man with a discharge.
If a man ejaculates, then he must bathe his whole
body with water and remain impure. Until dusk. If an
item of clothing or leather is touched, then it must
be clean thoroughly with water and will remain impure until dusk.

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If a man ejaculates while lying with a woman, then
both must bathe with water and remain impure until dusk.
When a woman has her menstrual period and discharges her blood,
she must stay in a state of her menstrual impurity
for seven days. Any person who touches her will be
impure until dusk. Anything she lies down on or sits
down on during her menstruation will be impure, and any

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person who touches her bed, or her cushion, or anything
else she sits on, must wash his clothes and bathe
in water. He will remain impure until dusk. If a
man has sexual relations with a woman during her menstrual
period and her menstrual blood gets on a man, he
will be impure for seven days. In Any bed he
lies down upon will be impure as well. If a

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woman discharges blood for several days before her menstrual period
or outside of it, then she will treat those days
as if she were having her menstrual period and will
be impure. Treat every she lies down upon during her
irregular discharge, like the bed she lies down upon while
she is in her menstrual period. Anything she sits down
upon will be considered impure, just it is when she

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is menstru waiting. By this same token, Any person who
touches the items she touches will be impure and must
wash his clothes and bathe in water, and remain impure
until dusk. When the woman's discharge it stops. She will
wait seven days before she is ritually cleansed. On the
eighth day, she will bring two turtle doves or young
pigeons and present them to the priest at the entrance

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of the congregation tent. The priest will present one as
a purification offering for sin, and the other as a
burnt offering. The priest will come before me and cover
the impurity of the woman with a discharge. This is
how you are to separate and deal with the people
of Israel during those times when they are ritually impure,
so that they will not die from their impurity by
defiling my sanctuary that stands among them. These are the

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instructions for what to do when someone has a discharge
of any kind, and for the man who has become
impure from his ejaculation, for the woman who is not
well from her menstrual period, for any man or woman
who has a discharge, and for the man who has
sexual relations with a ritually impure woman,