When a man has sexual intercourse with a woman and there is a seminal emission,<n id="1" /> they must bathe in water and be unclean until evening.p>

This is the law of the one with a discharge: the one who has a seminal emission<n id="1" /> and becomes unclean by it,<n id="2" />

In the middle of the night he was startled<n id="1" /> and turned over.<n id="2" /> Now<n id="3" /> he saw a woman<n id="4" /> lying beside him!<n id="5" />

<p class="poetry">The evergreens also rejoice over your demise,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">as do the cedars of Lebanon, singing,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;Since you fell asleep,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">no woodsman comes up to chop us down!&#8217;<n id="4" />p>

<p class="bodytext">In the evening the quail<n id="1" /> came up and covered the camp, and in the morning a layer of dew was all around the camp.

When<n id="1" /> the layer of dew had evaporated,<n id="2" /> there on the surface of the desert was a thin flaky substance,<n id="3" /> thin like frost on the earth.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;When a man has a seminal emission,<n id="1" /> he must bathe his whole body in water<n id="2" /> and be unclean until evening,

and he must wash in water any clothing or leather that has semen on it, and it will be unclean until evening.

and a man has sexual relations<n id="1" /> with her<n id="2" /> without her husband knowing it,<n id="3" /> and it is hidden that she has defiled herself, since<n id="4" /> there was no witness against her, nor was she caught &#8211;

<p class="poetry">&#8220;Look up at the hilltops and consider this.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">You have had sex with other gods on every one of them.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">You waited for those gods like a thief lying in wait in the desert.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">You defiled the land by your wicked prostitution to other gods.<n id="4" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;When a man has sexual intercourse with a woman,<n id="1" /> although she is a slave woman designated for another man and she has not yet been ransomed, or freedom has not been granted to her, there will be an obligation to pay compensation.<n id="2" /> They must not be put to death, because she was not free.

No man<n id="1" /> from the descendants of Aaron who is diseased or has a discharge<n id="2" /> may eat the holy offerings until he becomes clean. The one<n id="3" /> who touches anything made unclean by contact with a dead person,<n id="4" /> or a man who has a seminal emission,<n id="5" />