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All animals, whether clean or unclean when alive, when dead will make those who touch them unclean (Lv. 11:28, 31, 39). Even more polluting are human corpses. So holy people, like priests and Nazirites, are forbidden to mourn for the dead, in case they make themselves unclean (Lv. 21:1–12; Nu. 6:1–12). Laity who become unclean by touching a corpse remain so for a week.

Some bodily discharges also make people unclean. Mothers are polluted by the puerperal discharge for forty days after giving birth to a son, and for eighty days after bearing a daughter (Lv. 12). Sexual intercourse pollutes both parties for a day and menstruation makes a woman unclean for a week (Lv. 15:18–19). Long-term discharges from the sexual organs make people unclean for as long as the discharge continues. Skin diseases of various sorts may also make a person unclean. Lv. 13 distinguishes between unclean complaints (e.g. active, sore, peeling conditions) and stable conditions (e.g. baldness) classed as clean. Anyone suffering from a polluting skin condition remains unclean until it clears up. In general, short-term human unclean-ness may be cleared by waiting a day and washing in water. When a condition causing long-term uncleanness clears up (e.g. skin disease), the sufferer has also to offer a sacrifice so as to become ritually clean again (Lv. 14).

All animals, whether clean or unclean when alive, when dead will make those who touch them unclean (Lv. 11:28, 31, 39). Even more polluting are human corpses. So holy people, like priests and Nazirites, are forbidden to mourn for the dead, in case they make themselves unclean (Lv. 21:1–12; Nu. 6:1–12). Laity who become unclean by touching a corpse remain so for a week.

Some bodily discharges also make people unclean. Mothers are polluted by the puerperal discharge for forty days after giving birth to a son, and for eighty days after bearing a daughter (Lv. 12). Sexual intercourse pollutes both parties for a day and menstruation makes a woman unclean for a week (Lv. 15:18–19). Long-term discharges from the sexual organs make people unclean for as long as the discharge continues. Skin diseases of various sorts may also make a person unclean. Lv. 13 distinguishes between unclean complaints (e.g. active, sore, peeling conditions) and stable conditions (e.g. baldness) classed as clean. Anyone suffering from a polluting skin condition remains unclean until it clears up. In general, short-term human unclean-ness may be cleared by waiting a day and washing in water. When a condition causing long-term uncleanness clears up (e.g. skin disease), the sufferer has also to offer a sacrifice so as to become ritually clean again (Lv. 14).

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