“And he that toucheth the flesh of him that hath the issue shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.”
Whoever touches the man who has a discharge must wash their clothes and bathe with water, and they will be unclean till evening. Direct contact with the man himself — not only with his bed or seat — creates the same cloth-washing and until-evening impurity. The person who touches the man with the discharge is not more impure than the person who touches his bed: the direct contact and the mediated contact produce equivalent impurity requiring equivalent purification. The equality of the direct and mediated contact-impurity communicates the consistent principle of the discharge regulations.
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