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• Genesis 43:32

  They served him by himself, and them by themselves, and the Egyptians, that ate with him, by themselves, because the Egyptians don’t eat bread with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination to the Egyptians.

• Leviticus 5:2

  “‘Or if anyone touches any unclean thing, whether it is the carcass of an unclean animal, or the carcass of unclean livestock, or the carcass of unclean creeping things, and it is hidden from him, and he is unclean, then he shall be guilty.

• Leviticus 5:3

  “‘Or if he touches the uncleanness of man, whatever his uncleanness is with which he is unclean, and it is hidden from him; when he knows of it, then he shall be guilty.

• Leviticus 5:4

  “‘Or if anyone swears rashly with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatever it is that a man might utter rashly with an oath, and it is hidden from him; when he knows of it, then he shall be guilty of one of these.

• Leviticus 5:5

  It shall be, when he is guilty of one of these, he shall confess that in which he has sinned:

• Leviticus 5:6

  and he shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh for his sin which he has sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin.

• Leviticus 5:7

  “‘If he can’t afford a lamb, then he shall bring his trespass offering for that in which he has sinned, two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, to Yahweh; one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering.

• Leviticus 5:8

  He shall bring them to the priest, who shall first offer the one which is for the sin offering, and wring off its head from its neck, but shall not sever it completely.

• Leviticus 5:9

  He shall sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering on the side of the altar; and the rest of the blood shall be drained out at the base of the altar. It is a sin offering.

• Leviticus 5:10

  He shall offer the second for a burnt offering, according to the ordinance; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin which he has sinned, and he shall be forgiven.

• Leviticus 5:11

  “‘But if he can’t afford two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, then he shall bring his offering for that in which he has sinned, one tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering. He shall put no oil on it, and he shall not put any frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering.

• Leviticus 5:12

  He shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it as the memorial portion, and burn it on the altar, on the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. It is a sin offering.

• Leviticus 5:13

  The priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin that he has sinned in any of these things, and he will be forgiven; and the rest shall be the priest’s, as the meal offering.’”

• Leviticus 7:18

  If any of the meat of the sacrifice of his peace offerings is eaten on the third day, it will not be accepted, and it shall not be credited to him who offers it. It will be an abomination, and the soul who eats any of it will bear his iniquity.

• Leviticus 7:19

  “‘The meat that touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten. It shall be burned with fire. As for the meat, everyone who is clean may eat it;

• Leviticus 7:20

  but the soul who eats of the meat of the sacrifice of peace offerings, that belongs to Yahweh, having his uncleanness on him, that soul shall be cut off from his people.

• Leviticus 7:21

  When anyone touches any unclean thing, the uncleanness of man, or an unclean animal, or any unclean abomination, and eats some of the meat of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which belong to Yahweh, that soul shall be cut off from his people.’”

• Leviticus 11:8

  Of their meat you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch; they are unclean to you.

• Leviticus 11:24

  “‘By these you will become unclean: whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening.

• Leviticus 11:25

  Whoever carries any part of their carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.

• Leviticus 11:26

  “‘Every animal which parts the hoof, and is not cloven-footed, nor chews the cud, is unclean to you. Everyone who touches them shall be unclean.

• Leviticus 11:27

  Whatever goes on its paws, among all animals that go on all fours, they are unclean to you. Whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening.

• Leviticus 11:28

  He who carries their carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. They are unclean to you.

• Leviticus 11:31

  These are they which are unclean to you among all that creep. Whoever touches them when they are dead, shall be unclean until the evening.

• Leviticus 11:32

  On whatever any of them falls when they are dead, it shall be unclean; whether it is any vessel of wood, or clothing, or skin, or sack, whatever vessel it is, with which any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the evening; then it will be clean.

• Leviticus 11:33

  Every earthen vessel, into which any of them falls, all that is in it shall be unclean, and you shall break it.

• Leviticus 11:34

  All food which may be eaten, that on which water comes, shall be unclean; and all drink that may be drunk in every such vessel shall be unclean.

• Leviticus 11:35

  Everything whereupon part of their carcass falls shall be unclean; whether oven, or range for pots, it shall be broken in pieces: they are unclean, and shall be unclean to you.

• Leviticus 11:36

  Nevertheless a spring or a cistern in which water is gathered shall be clean: but that which touches their carcass shall be unclean.

• Leviticus 11:37

  If part of their carcass falls on any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean.

• Leviticus 11:38

  But if water is put on the seed, and part of their carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you.

• Leviticus 11:39

  “‘If any animal, of which you may eat, dies; he who touches its carcass shall be unclean until the evening.

• Leviticus 11:40

  He who eats of its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. He also who carries its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.

• Leviticus 11:43

  You shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creeps. You shall not make yourselves unclean with them, that you should be defiled thereby.

• Leviticus 12:2

  “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘If a woman conceives, and bears a male child, then she shall be unclean seven days; as in the days of her monthly period she shall be unclean.

• Leviticus 12:3

  In the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.

• Leviticus 12:4

  She shall continue in the blood of purification thirty-three days. She shall not touch any holy thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying are completed.

• Leviticus 12:5

  But if she bears a female child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her period; and she shall continue in the blood of purification sixty-six days.

• Leviticus 12:6

  “‘When the days of her purification are completed, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall bring to the priest at the door of the Tent of Meeting, a year old lamb for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtledove, for a sin offering:

• Leviticus 12:7

  and he shall offer it before Yahweh, and make atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed from the fountain of her blood. “‘This is the law for her who bears, whether a male or a female.

• Leviticus 12:8

  If she cannot afford a lamb, then she shall take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons; the one for a burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering: and the priest shall make atonement for her, and she shall be clean.’”

• Leviticus 13:3

  and the priest shall examine the plague in the skin of the body: and if the hair in the plague has turned white, and the appearance of the plague is deeper than the body’s skin, it is the plague of leprosy; and the priest shall examine him, and pronounce him unclean.

• Leviticus 13:44

  he is a leprous man. He is unclean. The priest shall surely pronounce him unclean. His plague is on his head.

• Leviticus 13:45

  “The leper in whom the plague is shall wear torn clothes, and the hair of his head shall hang loose. He shall cover his upper lip, and shall cry, ‘Unclean! Unclean!’

• Leviticus 13:46

  All the days in which the plague is in him he shall be unclean. He is unclean. He shall dwell alone. Outside of the camp shall be his dwelling.

• Leviticus 14:46

  “Moreover he who goes into the house while it is shut up shall be unclean until the evening.

• Leviticus 14:47

  He who lies down in the house shall wash his clothes; and he who eats in the house shall wash his clothes.

• Leviticus 14:48

  “If the priest shall come in, and examine it, and behold, the plague hasn’t spread in the house, after the house was plastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed.

• Leviticus 14:49

  To cleanse the house he shall take two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop.

• Leviticus 14:50

  He shall kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water.

• Leviticus 14:51

  He shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times.

• Leviticus 14:52

  He shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, with the living bird, with the cedar wood, with the hyssop, and with the scarlet;

• Leviticus 14:53

  but he shall let the living bird go out of the city into the open field. So shall he make atonement for the house; and it shall be clean.”

• Leviticus 14:54

  This is the law for any plague of leprosy, and for an itch,

• Leviticus 14:55

  and for the destructive mildew of a garment, and for a house,

• Leviticus 14:56

  and for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot;

• Leviticus 14:57

  to teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean. This is the law of leprosy.

• Leviticus 15:1

  Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

• Leviticus 15:2

  “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When any man has a discharge from his body, because of his discharge he is unclean.

• Leviticus 15:3

  This shall be his uncleanness in his discharge: whether his body runs with his discharge, or his body has stopped from his discharge, it is his uncleanness.

• Leviticus 15:4

  “‘Every bed whereon he who has the discharge lies shall be unclean; and everything he sits on shall be unclean.

• Leviticus 15:5

  Whoever touches his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

• Leviticus 15:6

  He who sits on anything whereon the man who has the discharge sat shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

• Leviticus 15:7

  “‘He who touches the body of him who has the discharge shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

• Leviticus 15:8

  “‘If he who has the discharge spits on him who is clean, then he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

• Leviticus 15:9

  “‘Whatever saddle he who has the discharge rides on shall be unclean.

• Leviticus 15:10

  Whoever touches anything that was under him shall be unclean until the evening. He who carries those things shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

• Leviticus 15:11

  “‘Whoever he who has the discharge touches, without having rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

• Leviticus 15:12

  “‘The earthen vessel, which he who has the discharge touches, shall be broken; and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.

• Leviticus 15:13

  “‘When he who has a discharge is cleansed of his discharge, then he shall count to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes; and he shall bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean.

• Leviticus 15:14

  “‘On the eighth day he shall take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and come before Yahweh to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and give them to the priest:

• Leviticus 15:15

  and the priest shall offer them, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering. The priest shall make atonement for him before Yahweh for his discharge.

• Leviticus 15:16

  “‘If any man has an emission of semen, then he shall bathe all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the evening.

• Leviticus 15:17

  Every garment, and every skin, whereon the semen is, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the evening.

• Leviticus 15:19

  “‘If a woman has a discharge, and her discharge in her flesh is blood, she shall be in her impurity seven days: and whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening.

• Leviticus 15:20

  “‘Everything that she lies on in her impurity shall be unclean. Everything also that she sits on shall be unclean.

• Leviticus 15:21

  Whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

• Leviticus 15:22

  Whoever touches anything that she sits on shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

• Leviticus 15:23

  If it is on the bed, or on anything whereon she sits, when he touches it, he shall be unclean until the evening.

• Leviticus 15:24

  “‘If any man lies with her, and her monthly flow is on him, he shall be unclean seven days; and every bed whereon he lies shall be unclean.

• Leviticus 15:25

  “‘If a woman has a discharge of her blood many days not in the time of her period, or if she has a discharge beyond the time of her period; all the days of the discharge of her uncleanness shall be as in the days of her period: she is unclean.

• Leviticus 15:26

  Every bed whereon she lies all the days of her discharge shall be to her as the bed of her period: and everything whereon she sits shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her period.

• Leviticus 15:27

  Whoever touches these things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

• Leviticus 15:28

  “‘But if she is cleansed of her discharge, then she shall count to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean.

• Leviticus 15:29

  On the eighth day she shall take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and bring them to the priest, to the door of the Tent of Meeting.

• Leviticus 15:30

  The priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make atonement for her before Yahweh for the uncleanness of her discharge.

• Leviticus 15:31

  “‘Thus you shall separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness, so they will not die in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is among them.’”

• Leviticus 15:32

  This is the law of him who has a discharge, and of him who has an emission of semen, so that he is unclean thereby;

• Leviticus 15:33

  and of her who has her period, and of a man or woman who has a discharge, and of him who lies with her who is unclean.

• Leviticus 16:26

  “He who lets the goat go for the scapegoat shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.

• Leviticus 16:28

  He who burns them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.

• Leviticus 17:15

  “‘Every person that eats what dies of itself, or that which is torn by animals, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening: then he shall be clean.

• Leviticus 17:16

  But if he doesn’t wash them, or bathe his flesh, then he shall bear his iniquity.’”

• Leviticus 22:2

  “Tell Aaron and his sons to separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, which they make holy to me, and that they not profane my holy name. I am Yahweh.

• Leviticus 22:3

  “Tell them, ‘If anyone of all your offspring throughout your generations approaches the holy things, which the children of Israel make holy to Yahweh, having his uncleanness on him, that soul shall be cut off from before me. I am Yahweh.

• Leviticus 22:4

  “‘Whoever of the offspring of Aaron is a leper or has an issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he is clean. Whoever touches anything that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose offspring goes from him;

• Leviticus 22:5

  or whoever touches any creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatever uncleanness he has;

• Leviticus 22:6

  the person that touches any such shall be unclean until the evening, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he bathe his body in water.

• Leviticus 22:7

  When the sun is down, he shall be clean; and afterward he shall eat of the holy things, because it is his bread.

• Leviticus 22:8

  That which dies of itself, or is torn by animals, he shall not eat, defiling himself by it. I am Yahweh.

• Numbers 19:7

  Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the evening.

• Numbers 19:8

  He who burns her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the evening.

• Numbers 19:9

  “A man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up outside of the camp in a clean place; and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water for impurity. It is a sin offering.

• Numbers 19:10

  He who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. It shall be to the children of Israel, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them, for a statute forever.

• Numbers 19:11

  “He who touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days.

• Numbers 19:12

  He shall purify himself with water on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean; but if he doesn’t purify himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.

• Numbers 19:13

  Whoever 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.

• Numbers 19:14

  “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 seven days.

• Numbers 19:15

  Every open vessel, which has no covering bound on it, is unclean.

• Numbers 19:16

  “Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

• Numbers 19:17

  “For the unclean, they shall take of the ashes of the burning of the sin offering; and running water shall be poured into a vessel.

• Numbers 19:18

  A clean person shall take hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, on all the vessels, on the persons who were there, and on him who touched the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave.

• Numbers 19:19

  The clean person shall sprinkle on the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day. On the seventh day, he shall purify him. He shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at evening.

• Numbers 19:20

  But 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.

• Numbers 19:21

  It shall be a perpetual statute to them. 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 19:22

  “Whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the soul that touches it shall be unclean until evening.”

• Numbers 31:19

  “Encamp outside of the camp seven days. Whoever has killed any person, and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves on the third day and on the seventh day, you and your captives.

• Numbers 31:20

  As to every garment, and all that is made of skin, and all work of goats’ hair, and all things made of wood, you shall purify yourselves.”

• Deuteronomy 23:10

  If there is among you any man who is not clean by reason of that which happens him by night, then shall he go outside of the camp. He shall not come within the camp;

• Deuteronomy 23:11

  but it shall be, when evening comes, he shall bathe himself in water. When the sun is down, he shall come within the camp.

• 2 Samuel 11:4

  David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in to him, and he lay with her (for she was purified from her uncleanness); and she returned to her house.

• Ezekiel 44:25

  They shall go in to no dead person to defile themselves; but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister who has had no husband, they may defile themselves.

• Ezekiel 44:26

  After he is cleansed, they shall reckon to him seven days.

• Luke 2:22

  When the days of their purification according to the law of Moses were fulfilled, they brought him up to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord

• John 18:28

  They led Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. It was early, and they themselves didn’t enter into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.