Instructions About Bodily Discharges

¹ Then¹ Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

1. Or “And”

² “Speak to the ⌞Israelites⌟,¹ and you shall say to them, ‘⌞Any man⌟² when a fluid discharge occurs³ from his body, his fluid discharge is unclean.

1. Literally “sons/children of Israel”
2. Literally “a man a man”
3. Or “becomes” or “shall be”

³ And this becomes his uncleanness in his fluid discharge: whether his body secretes his fluid discharge or his body blocks his fluid discharge, it is his uncleanness.

⁴ Any bed upon which the person who discharges lies down becomes unclean, and any object upon which he sits becomes unclean.

⁵ And anyone who touches his bed must wash his garments and shall wash¹ himself² with water, and he shall be unclean until evening.

1. Or “bathe”
2. The direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

⁶ And the person who sits on the object upon which the person who discharges has sat must wash his garments, and he shall wash¹ himself² with water, and he shall be unclean until the evening.

1. Or “bathe”
2. The direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

⁷ And the person who touches the body of the person who discharges must wash his garments, and he shall wash¹ himself² with water, and he shall be unclean until the evening.

1. Or “bathe”
2. The direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

⁸ And if the person who discharges spits on one who is¹ clean, then² that one³ shall wash is garments, and he shall wash himself⁴ with water, and he shall be unclean until the evening.

1. The generic article designating a class of persons or things
2. Or “and”
3. Hebrew “he”
4. The direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

⁹ And any saddle upon which the person who discharges rides becomes unclean.

¹⁰ And any person who touches anything that happened to be under him becomes unclean until the evening, and the person who carries them must wash his garments, and he shall wash himself¹ with water, and he shall be unclean until the evening.

1. The direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

¹¹ And anyone whom the person who discharges might touch ⌞without⌟¹ rinsing off his hands with water shall wash his garments, and he shall wash himself² with water, and he shall be unclean until the evening.

1. Literally “and not”
2. The direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

¹² But¹ a clay vessel that the person who discharges touches must be broken, and any ⌞wood object⌟² must be rinsed with water.

1. Or “And”
2. Literally “object of wood”

¹³ “ ‘And when the person who discharges becomes clean from his body fluid discharge, he shall count¹ for himself seven days for his cleansing; then² he shall wash his garments, and he shall wash his body with ⌞fresh⌟³ water, and he shall be clean.

1. Literally “and he shall count”
2. Or “and”
3. Or “running”; literally “living”

¹⁴ Then¹ on the eighth day he shall take for himself two turtledoves or two ⌞young doves⌟,² and he shall come ⌞before⌟³ Yahweh at the tent of assembly’s entrance, and he shall give them to the priest.

1. Or “And”
2. Literally “sons of dove”
3. Literally “to the faces of”

¹⁵ And the priest shall ⌞sacrifice⌟¹ one as a sin offering and ⌞the other⌟² as a burnt offering, and so the priest shall make atonement for him ⌞before⌟³ Yahweh from his body fluid discharge.

1. Literally “do” or “make”
2. Literally “the one”
3. Literally “to the faces of”

¹⁶ “ ‘And if an emission of semen goes out from anyone, then¹ he shall wash all of his body with water, and he shall be unclean until the evening.

1. Or “and”

¹⁷ And any garment and anything leather on which is an emission of semen shall be washed with water, and it shall be unclean until the evening.

¹⁸ If¹ there is a woman with whom a man lies down and there is an emission of semen, then² they shall wash themselves³ with water, and they shall be unclean until the evening.

1. Or “And”
2. Or “and”
3. The direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

¹⁹ “ ‘And when a woman ⌞is menstruating⌟,¹ her body fluid discharge occurs in² her body; for seven days she shall be in her menstruation, and any person who touches her shall become unclean until the evening.

1. Literally “is discharging blood”
2. Or “from”

²⁰ And anything upon which she lies down during her menstruation shall become unclean, and anything upon which she sits shall become unclean.

²¹ And any person who touches her bed must wash his garments, and he shall wash himself¹ with water, and he shall be unclean until the evening.

1. The direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

²² And any person who touches any object on which she sat must wash his garments, and he shall wash himself¹ with water, and he shall be unclean until the evening.

1. The direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

²³ And if it is on the bed or on the object on which she sits, at his touching it he becomes unclean until the evening.

²⁴ And if a man indeed lies with her and her menstruation occurs on him, then¹ he shall be unclean for seven days, and any bed on which he lies down becomes unclean.

1. Or “and”

²⁵ “ ‘And when a woman discharges a body fluid consisting of her blood for many days, but not at the time of her menstruation, or when she discharges in addition to¹ her menstruation, all the days of her unclean body fluid discharge she shall become unclean as in the days of her menstruation.

1. Or “beyond”

²⁶ Any bed on which she lies during all the days of her body fluid discharge shall become for her as her bed of menstruation, and any object on which she sits becomes unclean as her menstruation’s uncleanness.

²⁷ And any person who touches them becomes unclean, and he shall wash his garments, and he shall wash himself¹ with water, and he shall be unclean until the evening.

1. The direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

²⁸ “ ‘And if she is clean from her body fluid discharge, then¹ she shall count for herself seven days, and afterward she becomes clean.

1. Or “and”

²⁹ And on the eighth day she shall take for herself two turtledoves or two ⌞young doves⌟,¹ and she shall bring them to the priest at the tent of assembly’s entrance.

1. Literally “sons of dove”

³⁰ And the priest shall ⌞sacrifice⌟¹ the one as a sin offering and the ⌞other⌟² as a burnt offering, and so the priest shall make atonement for her ⌞before⌟³ Yahweh from her unclean body fluid discharge.’

1. Literally “do” or “make”
2. Literally “one”
3. Literally “the the faces of”

³¹ “And you shall keep the ⌞Israelites⌟¹ separate from their uncleanness so that they might not die because of² their uncleanness by their making my tabernacle, which is in their midst, unclean.

1. Literally “sons/children of Israel”
2. Or “by” or “in”

³² “This is the regulation of the one with the body fluid discharge and the one from whom an emission of semen goes out so that he becomes unclean by it

³³ and ⌞concerning⌟¹ the menstruating woman in her bleeding² and the person who discharges his body fluid, for the male and for the female and for a man who lies with an unclean woman.”

1. Literally “of”
2. See similar idiom at 12:2