Leviticus 15:31

God commands Israel to be separated from their uncleanness lest they defile His tabernacle and die. The purpose of these laws is to guard God's holy dwelling among them.

Cross-references · 19

• Num 19:20But the man who shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from the middle of the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of Yahweh. The water for impurity has not been sprinkled on him. He is unclean.
• Num 19:13Whoever touches a dead person, the body of a man who has died, and doesn’t purify himself, defiles Yahweh’s tabernacle; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel; because the water for impurity was not sprinkled on him, he shall be unclean. His uncleanness is yet on him.
• Ezek 5:11Therefore as I live,’ says the Lord Yahweh, ‘surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with all your abominations, therefore I will also diminish you. My eye won’t spare, and I will have no pity.
• Ezek 23:38Moreover this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my Sabbaths.
• Num 5:3Both you shall put male and female outside of the camp; that they not defile their camp, in the middle of which I dwell.”
• 1 Cor 3:17If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, which you are.
• Ezek 44:23They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.
• Jude 1:4For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.
• Heb 10:29How much worse punishment do you think he will be judged worthy of who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?
• Heb 12:14–15Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,
• Dan 9:27He shall make a firm covenant with many for one week: and in the middle of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease; and on the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate; and even to the full end, and that determined, shall wrath be poured out on the desolate.
• Lev 19:30“‘You shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary; I am Yahweh.
• Lev 21:23He shall not come near to the veil, nor come near to the altar, because he has a defect; that he may not profane my sanctuaries, for I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.’”
• Lev 11:47to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean, and between the living thing that may be eaten and the living thing that may not be eaten.’”
• Ezek 44:5–7Yahweh said to me, Son of man, mark well, and see with your eyes, and hear with your ears all that I tell you concerning all the ordinances of Yahweh’s house, and all its laws; and mark well the entrance of the house, with every exit of the sanctuary.
• Lev 20:3I also will set my face against that person, and will cut him off from among his people because he has given of his offspring to Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.
• Lev 13:59This is the law of the plague of mildew in a garment of wool or linen, either in the warp, or the woof, or in anything of skin, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.
• Deut 24:8Be careful in the plague of leprosy, that you observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites teach you. As I commanded them, so you shall observe to do.
• Ps 66:18If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn’t have listened.

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