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Leviticus 15

Sexual Uncleanness.^*

1The LORD said to Moses and Aaron:

2^* Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When any man has a genital discharge, he is thereby unclean.^a

3Such is his uncleanness from this discharge, whether his body^* drains freely with the discharge or is blocked up from the discharge. His uncleanness is on him all the days that his body discharges or is blocked up from his discharge; this is his uncleanness.

4Any bed on which the man with the discharge lies is unclean, and any article on which he sits is unclean.

5Anyone who touches his bed shall wash his garments, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

6Whoever sits on an article on which the man with the discharge was sitting shall wash his garments, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

7Whoever touches the body of the man with the discharge shall wash his garments, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

8If the man with the discharge spits on a clean person, the latter shall wash his garments, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

9Any saddle on which the man with the discharge rides is unclean.

10Whoever touches anything that was under him shall be unclean until evening; whoever carries any such thing shall wash his garments, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.^b

11Anyone whom the man with the discharge touches with his unrinsed hands shall wash his garments, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

12Earthenware touched by the man with the discharge shall be broken; and every wooden article shall be rinsed with water.

13When a man with a discharge becomes clean^* of his discharge, he shall count seven days^c for his purification. Then he shall wash his garments and bathe his body in fresh water, and so he will be clean.

14On the eighth day he shall take two turtledoves or two pigeons,^d and going before the LORD, to the entrance of the tent of meeting, he shall give them to the priest,

15who shall offer them up, the one as a purification offering and the other as a burnt offering. Thus shall the priest make atonement before the LORD for the man because of his discharge.

16^* When a man has an emission of semen, he shall bathe his whole body in water and be unclean until evening.^e

17Any piece of cloth or leather with semen on it shall be washed with water and be unclean until evening.

18If a man has sexual relations with a woman, they shall both bathe in water and be unclean until evening.

19^* When a woman has a flow of blood from her body, she shall be in a state of menstrual uncleanness for seven days. Anyone who touches her shall be unclean until evening.^f

20Anything on which she lies or sits during her menstrual period shall be unclean.

21Anyone who touches her bed shall wash his garments, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

22Whoever touches any article on which she was sitting shall wash his garments, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

23Whether an object^* is on the bed or on something she sat upon, when the person touches it, that person shall be unclean until evening.

24If a man lies with her, he contracts her menstrual uncleanness and shall be unclean for seven days;^g every bed on which he then lies also becomes unclean.

25^* When a woman has a flow of blood for several days outside her menstrual period, or when her flow continues beyond the ordinary period, as long as she suffers this unclean flow she shall be unclean, just as during her menstrual period.^h

26Any bed on which she lies during such a flow becomes unclean, as it would during her menstrual period, and any article on which she sits becomes unclean just as during her menstrual period.

27Anyone who touches them becomes unclean; that person shall wash his garments, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

28ⁱ When she becomes clean from her flow, she shall count seven days; after this she becomes clean.

29On the eighth day she shall take two turtledoves or two pigeons and bring them to the priest at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

30The priest shall offer one of them as a purification offering and the other as a burnt offering. Thus shall the priest make atonement before the LORD for her because of her unclean flow.

31You shall warn the Israelites of their uncleanness, lest they die through their uncleanness by defiling my tabernacle,^j which is in their midst.

32This is the ritual for the man with a discharge, or who has an emission of semen, and thereby becomes unclean;

33as well as for the woman who has her menstrual period; or one who has a discharge, male or female; and also for the man who lies with an unclean woman.

Leviticus 16

The Day of Atonement.

1^* After the death of Aaron’s two sons,^a who died when they encroached on the LORD’s presence, the LORD spoke to Moses

2and said to him: Tell your brother Aaron that he is not to come whenever he pleases^* into the inner sanctuary, inside the veil,^b in front of the cover on the ark, lest he die, for I reveal myself in a cloud above the ark’s cover.

3Only in this way may Aaron enter the inner sanctuary. He shall bring a bull of the herd for a purification offering and a ram for a burnt offering.

4He shall wear the sacred linen tunic, with the linen pants underneath, gird himself with the linen sash and put on the linen turban.^c But since these vestments are sacred, he shall not put them on until he has first bathed his body in water.^d

5From the Israelite community he shall receive two male goats for a purification offering and one ram for a burnt offering.

6Aaron shall offer the bull, his purification offering, to make atonement^* for himself and for his household.

7Taking the two male goats and setting them before the LORD at the entrance of the tent of meeting,

8he shall cast lots^e to determine which one is for the LORD and which for Azazel.^{* f}

9The goat that is determined by lot for the LORD, Aaron shall present and offer up as a purification offering.

10But the goat determined by lot for Azazel he shall place before the LORD alive, so that with it he may make atonement by sending it off to Azazel in the desert.

11Thus shall Aaron offer his bull for the purification offering, to make atonement for himself and for his family. When he has slaughtered it,

12he shall take a censer full of glowing embers from the altar before the LORD, as well as a double handful of finely ground fragrant incense, and bringing them inside the veil,

13there before the LORD he shall put incense on the fire, so that a cloud of incense may shield the cover that is over the covenant, else he will die.

14Taking some of the bull’s blood, he shall sprinkle it with his finger on the front of the ark’s cover and likewise sprinkle some of the blood with his finger seven times in front of the cover.

15Then he shall slaughter the goat of the people’s purification offering, and bringing its blood inside the veil, he shall do with it as he did with the bull’s blood, sprinkling it on the ark’s cover and in front of it.

16Thus he shall purge the inner sanctuary^* of all the Israelites’ impurities and trespasses, including all their sins. He shall do the same for the tent of meeting,^g which is set up among them in the midst of their uncleanness.

17No one else may be in the tent of meeting from the time he enters the inner sanctuary to make atonement until he departs. When he has made atonement for himself and his household, as well as for the whole Israelite assembly,

18^* he shall come out to the altar before the LORD and purge it also. Taking some of the bull’s and the goat’s blood, he shall put it on the horns around the altar,

19and with his finger sprinkle some of the blood on it seven times.^h Thus he shall purify it and sanctify it from the impurities of the Israelites.

The Scapegoat.

20When he has finished purging the inner sanctuary, the tent of meeting and the altar, Aaron shall bring forward the live goat.

21Laying both hands^* on its head, he shall confess over it all the iniquities of the Israelites and their trespasses, including all their sins, and so put them on the goat’s head.ⁱ He shall then have it led into the wilderness by an attendant.

22The goat will carry off all their iniquities to an isolated region.^j

When the goat is dispatched into the wilderness,

23Aaron shall go into the tent of meeting, strip off the linen vestments he had put on when he entered the inner sanctuary, and leave them in the tent of meeting.

24After bathing his body with water in a sacred place, he shall put on his regular vestments, and then come out and offer his own and the people’s burnt offering, in atonement for himself and for the people,

25and also burn the fat of the purification offering on the altar.

26The man who led away the goat for Azazel shall wash his garments and bathe his body in water; only then may he enter the camp.

27The bull and the goat of the purification offering whose blood was brought to make atonement in the inner sanctuary, shall be taken outside the camp,^k where their hides and flesh and dung shall be burned in the fire.

28The one who burns them shall wash his garments and bathe his body in water; only then may he enter the camp.

The Fast.

29^l This shall be an everlasting statute for you: on the tenth day of the seventh month every one of you, whether a native or a resident alien, shall humble yourselves^* and shall do no work.

30For on this day atonement is made for you to make you clean; of all your sins you will be cleansed before the LORD.

31It shall be a sabbath of complete rest for you, on which you must humble yourselves—an everlasting statute.

32This atonement is to be made by the priest who has been anointed and ordained to the priesthood in succession to his father. He shall wear the linen garments, the sacred vestments,

33and purge the most sacred part of the sanctuary, as well as the tent of meeting, and the altar. He shall also make atonement for the priests and all the people of the assembly.

34This, then, shall be an everlasting statute for you: once a year atonement shall be made on behalf of the Israelites for all their sins. And Moses did as the LORD had commanded him.

Romans 5

The Healing of the Gerasene Demoniac.

1^{* a} They came to the other side of the sea, to the territory of the Gerasenes.

2When he got out of the boat, at once a man^* from the tombs who had an unclean spirit met him.

3The man had been dwelling among the tombs, and no one could restrain him any longer, even with a chain.

4In fact, he had frequently been bound with shackles and chains, but the chains had been pulled apart by him and the shackles smashed, and no one was strong enough to subdue him.

5Night and day among the tombs and on the hillsides he was always crying out and bruising himself with stones.

6Catching sight of Jesus from a distance, he ran up and prostrated himself before him,

7crying out in a loud voice, “What have you to do with me,^* Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, do not torment me!”

8(He had been saying to him, “Unclean spirit, come out of the man!”)

9^* He asked him, “What is your name?” He replied, “Legion is my name. There are many of us.”^b

10And he pleaded earnestly with him not to drive them away from that territory.

11Now a large herd of swine^* was feeding there on the hillside.

12And they pleaded with him, “Send us into the swine. Let us enter them.”

13And he let them, and the unclean spirits came out and entered the swine. The herd of about two thousand rushed down a steep bank into the sea, where they were drowned.

14The swineherds ran away and reported the incident in the town and throughout the countryside. And people came out to see what had happened.

15As they approached Jesus, they caught sight of the man who had been possessed by Legion, sitting there clothed and in his right mind. And they were seized with fear.

16Those who witnessed the incident explained to them what had happened to the possessed man and to the swine.

17Then they began to beg him to leave their district.

18As he was getting into the boat, the man who had been possessed pleaded to remain with him.

19But he would not permit him but told him instead, “Go home^* to your family and announce to them all that the Lord in his pity has done for you.”

20Then the man went off and began to proclaim in the Decapolis what Jesus had done for him; and all were amazed.

Jairus’s Daughter and the Woman with a Hemorrhage.^*

21When Jesus had crossed again [in the boat] to the other side, a large crowd gathered around him, and he stayed close to the sea.^c

22One of the synagogue officials, named Jairus, came forward.^d Seeing him he fell at his feet

23and pleaded earnestly with him, saying, “My daughter is at the point of death. Please, come lay your hands on her^* that she may get well and live.”

24He went off with him, and a large crowd followed him and pressed upon him.

25There was a woman afflicted with hemorrhages for twelve years.

26She had suffered greatly at the hands of many doctors and had spent all that she had. Yet she was not helped but only grew worse.

27She had heard about Jesus and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak.

28^* She said, “If I but touch his clothes, I shall be cured.”

29Immediately her flow of blood dried up. She felt in her body that she was healed of her affliction.

30Jesus, aware at once that power had gone out from him, turned around in the crowd and asked, “Who has touched my clothes?”

31But his disciples said to him, “You see how the crowd is pressing upon you, and yet you ask, ‘Who touched me?’”

32And he looked around to see who had done it.

33The woman, realizing what had happened to her, approached in fear and trembling. She fell down before Jesus and told him the whole truth.

34He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has saved you. Go in peace and be cured of your affliction.”^e

35^* While he was still speaking, people from the synagogue official’s house arrived and said, “Your daughter has died; why trouble the teacher any longer?”

36Disregarding the message that was reported, Jesus said to the synagogue official, “Do not be afraid; just have faith.”

37He did not allow anyone to accompany him inside except Peter, James, and John, the brother of James.

38When they arrived at the house of the synagogue official, he caught sight of a commotion, people weeping and wailing loudly.

39^{* f} So he went in and said to them, “Why this commotion and weeping? The child is not dead but asleep.”

40And they ridiculed him. Then he put them all out. He took along the child’s father and mother and those who were with him and entered the room where the child was.

41^* He took the child by the hand and said to her, “Talitha koum,” which means, “Little girl, I say to you, arise!”

42The girl, a child of twelve, arose immediately and walked around. [At that] they were utterly astounded.

43He gave strict orders that no one should know this and said that she should be given something to eat.

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