PURIFICATION

Passages on this topic · 112

• Genesis 35:2

  Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, change your garments.

• Exodus 19:10

  Yahweh said to Moses, “Go to the people, and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their garments,

• Exodus 19:14

  Moses went down from the mountain to the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.

• Exodus 19:15

  He said to the people, “Be ready by the third day. Don’t have sexual relations with a woman.”

• Exodus 24:5

  He sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of cattle to Yahweh.

• Exodus 24:6

  Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.

• Exodus 24:7

  He took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people, and they said, “All that Yahweh has spoken will we do, and be obedient.”

• Exodus 24:8

  Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, “Look, this is the blood of the covenant, which Yahweh has made with you concerning all these words.”

• Exodus 29:4

  You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and shall wash them with water.

• Exodus 30:18

  “You shall also make a basin of brass, and its base of brass, in which to wash. You shall put it between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it.

• Exodus 30:19

  Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet in it.

• Exodus 30:20

  When they go into the Tent of Meeting, they shall wash with water, that they not die; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

• Exodus 30:21

  So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they not die: and it shall be a statute forever to them, even to him and to his descendants throughout their generations.”

• Exodus 40:12

  “You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and shall wash them with water.

• Exodus 40:30

  He set the basin between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and put water therein, with which to wash.

• Exodus 40:31

  Moses, Aaron, and his sons washed their hands and their feet there.

• Exodus 40:32

  When they went into the Tent of Meeting, and when they came near to the altar, they washed, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

• Leviticus 1:9

  but its innards and its legs he shall wash with water. The priest shall burn all of it on the altar, for a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.

• Leviticus 1:13

  but the innards and the legs he shall wash with water. The priest shall offer the whole, and burn it on the altar. It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.

• 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 8:6

  Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them with water.

• Leviticus 9:14

  He washed the innards and the legs, and burned them on the burnt offering on the altar.

• 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 14:6

  As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water.

• Leviticus 14:7

  He shall sprinkle on him who is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird go into the open field.

• Leviticus 14:8

  “He who is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and bathe himself in water; and he shall be clean. After that he shall come into the camp, but shall dwell outside his tent seven days.

• Leviticus 14:9

  It shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off. He shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his body in water, then he shall be clean.

• 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 15:16

  “‘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 15:18

  If a man lies with a woman and there is an emission of semen, they shall both bathe themselves in 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 16:4

  He shall put on the holy linen coat. He shall have the linen breeches on his body, and shall put on the linen sash, and he shall be clothed with the linen turban. They are the holy garments. He shall bathe his body in water, and put them on.

• Leviticus 16:24

  Then he shall bathe himself in water in a holy place, and put on his garments, and come out and offer his burnt offering and the burnt offering of the people, and make atonement for himself and for the people.

• 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 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.

• Numbers 8:6

  “Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them.

• Numbers 8:7

  You shall do this to them, to cleanse them: sprinkle the water of cleansing on them, let them shave their whole bodies with a razor, and let them wash their clothes, and cleanse themselves.

• Numbers 8:21

  The Levites purified themselves from sin, and they washed their clothes; and Aaron offered them for a wave offering before Yahweh; and Aaron made atonement for them to cleanse them.

• 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 19:13

  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 19:17

  “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 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.”

• Numbers 31:21

  Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who went to the battle, “This is the statute of the law which Yahweh has commanded Moses:

• Numbers 31:22

  however the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

• Numbers 31:23

  everything that may withstand the fire, you shall make to go through the fire, and it shall be clean; nevertheless it shall be purified with the water for impurity. All that doesn’t withstand the fire you shall make to go through the water.

• Numbers 31:24

  You shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean. Afterward you shall come into the camp.”

• Deuteronomy 21:6

  All the elders of that city, who are nearest to the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley.

• 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.

• 2 Chronicles 4:6

  He also made ten basins, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them. The things that belonged to the burnt offering were washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in.

• Esther 2:12

  Each young woman’s turn came to go in to King Ahasuerus after her purification for twelve months (for so were the days of their purification accomplished, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet fragrances and with preparations for beautifying women).

• Psalms 26:6

  I will wash my hands in innocence, so I will go about your altar, Yahweh;

• Psalms 51:7

  Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

• Ezekiel 36:25

  I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.

• Matthew 15:2

  “Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat bread.”

• Matthew 27:24

  So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, “I am innocent of the blood of this righteous person. You see to it.”

• Mark 7:2

  Now when they saw some of his disciples eating bread with defiled, that is unwashed, hands, they found fault.

• Mark 7:3

  (For the Pharisees and all the Jews, don’t eat unless they wash their hands and forearms, holding to the tradition of the elders.

• Mark 7:4

  They don’t eat when they come from the marketplace unless they bathe themselves, and there are many other things, which they have received to hold to: washings of cups, pitchers, bronze vessels, and couches.)

• Mark 7:5

  The Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why don’t your disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unwashed hands?”

• Mark 7:6

  He answered them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

• Mark 7:7

  But they worship me in vain, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’

• Mark 7:8

  “For you set aside the commandment of God, and hold tightly to the tradition of men — the washing of pitchers and cups, and you do many other such things.”

• Mark 7:9

  He said to them, “Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition.

• 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

• Luke 11:38

  When the Pharisee saw it, he marveled that he had not first washed himself before dinner.

• John 11:55

  Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand. Many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves.

• Acts 21:24

  Take them, and purify yourself with them, and pay their expenses for them, that they may shave their heads. Then all will know that there is no truth in the things that they have been informed about you, but that you yourself also walk keeping the law.

• Acts 21:26

  Then Paul took the men, and the next day, purified himself and went with them into the temple, declaring the fulfillment of the days of purification, until the offering was offered for every one of them.

• Hebrews 9:10

  being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.

• Hebrews 9:12

  nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the Holy Place, having obtained eternal redemption.

• Hebrews 9:13

  For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctify to the cleanness of the flesh:

• Hebrews 9:14

  how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

• Hebrews 9:19

  For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

• Hebrews 9:20

  saying, “This is the blood of the covenant which God has commanded you.”

• Hebrews 9:21

  Moreover he sprinkled the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry in the same way with the blood.

• Hebrews 9:22

  According to the law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.

• Hebrews 10:22

  let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,