Ritual Purity and Impurity

Ritual Purity and Impurity

"This is the law when a man dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent and everyone who is in the tent shall be unclean for seven days." (Numbers 19:14)

"This is the statute of the law which the LORD has commanded, saying, 'Speak to the sons of Israel that they bring you an unblemished red heifer in which is no defect and on which a yoke has never been placed." (Numbers 19:2)

"So it shall be a perpetual statute for them. And he who sprinkles the water for impurity shall wash his clothes, and he who touches the water for impurity shall be unclean until evening." (Numbers 19:21)

"If the leprosy breaks out farther on the skin, and the leprosy covers all the skin of him who has the infection from his head even to his feet, as far as the priest can see," (Leviticus 13:12)

"Be careful against an infection of leprosy, that you diligently observe and do according to all that the Levitical priests teach you; as I have commanded them, so you shall be careful to do." (Deuteronomy 24:8)

"then he shall shave himself, but he shall not shave the scale; and the priest shall isolate the person with the scale seven more days." (Leviticus 13:33)

"As for the leper who has the infection, his clothes shall be torn, and the hair of his head shall be uncovered, and he shall cover his mustache and cry, 'Unclean! Unclean!'" (Leviticus 13:45)

"This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing. Now he shall be brought to the priest," (Leviticus 14:2)

"It will be on the seventh day that he shall shave off all his hair: he shall shave his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair. He shall then wash his clothes and bathe his body in water and be clean." (Leviticus 14:9)

"When a garment has a mark of leprosy in it, whether it is a wool garment or a linen garment," (Leviticus 13:47)

"When you enter the land of Canaan, which I give you for a possession, and I put a mark of leprosy on a house in the land of your possession," (Leviticus 14:34)

"When a woman has a discharge, if her discharge in her body is blood, she shall continue in her menstrual impurity for seven days; and whoever touches her shall be unclean until evening." (Leviticus 15:19)

"Speak to the sons of Israel, saying: 'When a woman gives birth and bears a male child, then she shall be unclean for seven days, as in the days of her menstruation she shall be unclean." (Leviticus 12:2)

"Now if a woman has a discharge of her blood many days, not at the period of her menstrual impurity, or if she has a discharge beyond that period, all the days of her impure discharge she shall continue as though in her menstrual impurity; she is unclean." (Leviticus 15:25)

"This, moreover, shall be his uncleanness in his discharge: it is his uncleanness whether his body allows its discharge to flow or whether his body obstructs its discharge." (Leviticus 15:3)

"Also if one of the animals dies which you have for food, the one who touches its carcass becomes unclean until evening." (Leviticus 11:39)

"Now these are to you the unclean among the swarming things which swarm on the earth: the mole, and the mouse, and the great lizard in its kinds," (Leviticus 11:29)

"Now if a man has a seminal emission, he shall bathe all his body in water and be unclean until evening." (Leviticus 15:16)

"Any of the food which may be eaten, on which water comes, shall become unclean, and any liquid which may be drunk in every vessel shall become unclean." (Leviticus 11:34)

"Now if a man has a seminal emission, he shall bathe all his body in water and be unclean until evening." (Leviticus 15:16)