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# Leviticus 15

Leviticus 15 is chapter 15 of 27 in the Book of Leviticus. Here are all 33 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Other legal uncleannesses.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Leviticus 15 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:
2. Speak to the sons of Israel, and say to them: The man who undergoes a flow of seed shall be unclean.
3. And then he shall be judged subject to this fault, if a filthy fluid, at each moment, adheres to his flesh and gathers there.
4. Every bed on which he sleeps shall be unclean, and every place where he sits.
5. If any man has touched his couch, he shall wash his clothes, and having washed with water, he shall be unclean until evening.
6. If he will have sat where that man has sat, he shall also wash his clothes, and having washed with water, he shall be unclean until evening.
7. Whoever has touched his flesh shall wash his clothes, and having washed with water, he shall be unclean until evening.
8. If such a man has cast his spittle upon him who is clean, he shall wash his clothes, and having washed with water, he shall be unclean until evening.
9. The saddle on which he has sat shall be unclean.
10. And whatever has been under him who has undergone a flow of seed shall be polluted until evening. Whoever carries any of these things shall wash his clothes, and having washed with water, he shall be unclean until evening.
11. All whom such a one has touched, not having washed his hands before, shall wash his clothes, and having washed with water, he shall be unclean until evening.
12. If he has touched an earthen vessel, it shall be broken. But if it is a wooden vessel, it shall be washed with water.
13. If he who suffers from this affliction will have been healed, he shall number seven days after his cleansing, and having washed his clothes and his entire body in living water, he shall be clean.
14. Then, on the eighth day, he shall take two turtledoves or two young pigeons, and he shall advance, in the sight of the Lord, toward the door of the tabernacle of the testimony, and he shall give these to the priest,
15. who shall offer one for sin, and the other as a holocaust. And he shall pray for him before the Lord, so that he may be cleansed from the flow of his seed.
16. A man from whom the seed of sexual intercourse goes out shall wash his entire body with water, and he shall be unclean until evening.
17. The garment or skin which he will have, he shall wash with water, and it shall be unclean until evening.
18. The woman with whom he has had sexual intercourse shall be washed with water, and she shall be unclean until evening.
19. The woman who, at the return of the month, undergoes the flow of blood shall be separated for seven days.
20. All who will touch her shall be unclean until evening.
21. And everything on which she sleeps or sits, in the days of her separation, shall be polluted.
22. Whoever will have touched her bed shall wash his clothes, and having washed himself with water, he shall be unclean until evening.
23. Anyone who will have touched any item on which she has sat shall wash his clothes, and having washed himself with water, he shall be polluted until evening.
24. If a man has sexual intercourse with her in the time of her monthly flow of blood, he shall be unclean for seven days, and every bed on which he sleeps shall be polluted.
25. The woman who undergoes a flow of blood many days beyond her time of menstruation, or whose blood does not cease to flow after the menstrual blood, as long as she is subject to this affliction, she shall be unclean, just as if she were in her time of menstruation.
26. Every bed on which she sleeps, and every item on which she sits, shall be polluted.
27. Whoever will have touched these shall wash his clothes, and having washed himself with water, he shall be unclean until evening.
28. If the blood has stopped and has ceased to flow, she shall number seven days for her purification,
29. and on the eighth day she shall offer for herself, to the priest, two turtledoves or two young pigeons, at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony.
30. And he shall offer one for sin, and the other as a holocaust, and he shall pray for her before the Lord, and for the flow of her uncleanness.
31. Therefore, you shall teach the sons of Israel to be cautious of uncleanness, so that they may not die in their filth, when they will have polluted my tabernacle, which is among them.
32. This is the law of him who undergoes a flow of seed, or who is polluted by sexual intercourse,
33. and of her who is separated in the time of menstruation, or who has a continual flow of blood, and of the man who sleeps with her.

## Leviticus 15 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Locutusque est Dominus ad Moysen et Aaron, dicens:
2. Loquimini filiis Israël, et dicite eis: Vir, qui patitur fluxum seminis, immundus erit.
3. Et tunc judicabitur huic vitio subjacere, cum per singula momenta adhæserit carni ejus, atque concreverit fœdus humor.
4. Omne stratum, in quo dormierit, immundum erit, et ubicumque sederit.
5. Si quis hominum tetigerit lectum ejus, lavabit vestimenta sua, et ipse lotus aqua, immundus erit usque ad vesperum.
6. Si sederit ubi ille sederat, et ipse lavabit vestimenta sua: et lotus aqua, immundus erit usque ad vesperum.
7. Qui tetigerit carnem ejus, lavabit vestimenta sua: et ipse lotus aqua, immundus erit usque ad vesperum.
8. Si salivam hujuscemodi homo jecerit super eum qui mundus est, lavabit vestimenta sua: et lotus aqua, immundus erit usque ad vesperum.
9. Sagma, super quo sederit, immundum erit:
10. et quidquid sub eo fuerit, qui fluxum seminis patitur, pollutum erit usque ad vesperum. Qui portaverit horum aliquid, lavabit vestimenta sua: et ipse lotus aqua, immundus erit usque ad vesperum.
11. Omnis, quem tetigerit qui talis est, non lotis ante manibus, lavabit vestimenta sua, et lotus aqua, immundus erit usque ad vesperum.
12. Vas fictile quod tetigerit confringetur: vas autem ligneum lavabitur aqua.
13. Si sanatus fuerit qui hujuscemodi sustinet passionem, numerabit septem dies post emundationem sui, et lotis vestibus et toto corpore in aquis viventibus, erit mundus.
14. Die autem octavo sumet duos turtures, aut duos pullos columbæ, et veniet in conspectum Domini ad ostium tabernaculi testimonii, dabitque eos sacerdoti:
15. qui faciet unum pro peccato et alterum in holocaustum: rogabitque pro eo coram Domino, ut emundetur a fluxi seminis sui.
16. Vir de quo egreditur semen coitus, lavabit aqua omne corpus suum: et immundus erit usque ad vesperum.
17. Vestem et pellem, quam habuerit, lavabit aqua, et immunda erit usque ad vesperum.
18. Mulier, cum qua coierit, lavabitur aqua, et immunda erit usque ad vesperum.
19. Mulier, quæ redeunte mense patitur fluxum sanguinis, septem diebus separabitur.
20. Omnis qui tetigerit eam, immundus erit usque ad vesperum:
21. et in quo dormierit vel sederit diebus separationis suæ, polluetur.
22. Qui tetigerit lectum ejus, lavabit vestimenta sua: et ipse lotus aqua, immundus erit usque ad vesperum.
23. Omne vas, super quo illa sederit, quisquis attigerit, lavabit vestimenta sua: et ipse lotus aqua, pollutus erit usque ad vesperum.
24. Si coierit cum ea vir tempore sanguinis menstrualis, immundus erit septem diebus: et omne stratum, in quo dormierit, polluetur.
25. Mulier, quæ patitur multis diebus fluxum sanguinis non in tempore menstruali, vel quæ post menstruum sanguinem fluere non cessat, quamdiu subjacet huic passioni, immunda erit quasi sit in tempore menstruo.
26. Omne stratum, in quo dormierit, et vas in quo sederit, pollutum erit.
27. Quicumque tetigerit ea, lavabit vestimenta sua: et ipse lotus aqua, immundus erit usque ad vesperam.
28. Si steterit sanguis, et fluere cessaverit, numerabit septem dies purificationis suæ:
29. et die octavo offeret pro se sacerdoti duos turtures, aut duos pullos columbarum, ad ostium tabernaculi testimonii:
30. qui unum faciet pro peccato, et alterum in holocaustum, rogabitque pro ea coram Domino, et pro fluxu immunditiæ ejus.
31. Docebitis ergo filios Israël ut caveant immunditiam, et non moriantur in sordibus suis, cum polluerint tabernaculum meum quod est inter eos.
32. Ista est lex ejus, qui patitur fluxum seminis, et qui polluitur coitu,
33. et quæ menstruis temporibus separatur, vel quæ jugi fluit sanguine, et hominis qui dormierit cum ea.

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 2: These legal uncleannesses were instituted in order to give the people a horror of carnal impurities.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).