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27 and anyone who touches them will be unclean, and he must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.[a]

Purity Regulations for Female Bodily Discharges

28 “‘If[b] she becomes clean from her discharge, then she is to count off for herself seven days, and afterward she will be clean. 29 Then on the eighth day she must take for herself two turtledoves or two young pigeons[c] and she must bring them to the priest at the entrance of the Meeting Tent,

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 15:27 tn See the note on v. 5 above.
  2. Leviticus 15:28 tn Heb “And if….” Although this clause is parallel to v. 13 above, it begins with וְאִם (veʾim, “and if”) here rather than וְכִי (vekhi, “and when/if”) there.
  3. Leviticus 15:29 tn Heb “from the sons of the pigeon,” referring either to “young pigeons” or “various species of pigeon” (contrast J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:168 with J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 14; cf. Lev 1:14 and esp. 5:7-10).

27 Anyone who touches them will be unclean; they must wash their clothes and bathe with water, and they will be unclean till evening.

28 “‘When she is cleansed from her discharge, she must count off seven days, and after that she will be ceremonially clean. 29 On the eighth day she must take two doves or two young pigeons(A) and bring them to the priest at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

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