Quotes About Cleanliness

Then a man who is ceremonially clean is to gather up the ashes of the heifer and store them in a ceremonially clean place outside the camp. They must be kept by the congregation of Israel for preparing the water of purification; this is for purification from sin.

Whoever touches any dead body will be unclean for seven days.

and any open container without a lid fastened on it is unclean.

For the purification of the unclean person, take some of the ashes of the burnt sin offering, put them in a jar, and pour fresh water over them.

This is a permanent statute for the people: The one who sprinkles the water of purification must wash his clothes, and whoever touches the water of purification will be unclean until evening.

On the seventh day you are to wash your clothes, and you will be clean. After that you may enter the camp.”

You must not eat any detestable thing.

You may eat any animal that has a split hoof divided in two and that chews the cud.

as well as the pig; though it has a divided hoof, it does not chew the cud. It is unclean for you. You must not eat its meat or touch its carcass.

the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, or the bat.

All flying insects are unclean for you; they may not be eaten.

You are not to eat any carcass; you may give it to the foreigner residing within your gates, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a holy people belonging to the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its motherís milk.

Eat it within your gates; both the ceremonially unclean and clean may eat it as they would a gazelle or a deer.

And you must have a digging tool in your equipment so that when you relieve yourself you can dig a hole and cover up your excrement.

For the LORD your God walks throughout your camp to protect you and deliver your enemies to you. Your camp must be holy, lest He see anything unclean among you and turn away from you.

I have not eaten any of the sacred portion while in mourning, or removed any of it while unclean, or offered any of it for the dead. I have obeyed the LORD my God; I have done everything You commanded me.

He stationed gatekeepers at the gates of the house of the LORD, so that nothing unclean could enter for any reason.

ëI am pure, without transgression; I am clean, with no iniquity in me.

He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to an idol or swear deceitfully.

“Ah, Lord GOD,” I said, “I have never defiled myself. From my youth until now I have not eaten anything found dead or mauled by wild beasts. No unclean meat has ever entered my mouth.”

They are to teach My people the difference between the holy and the common, and show them how to discern between the clean and the unclean.

The priests may not eat any bird or animal found dead or torn by wild beasts.

“Why do Your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They do not wash their hands before they eat.”

These are what defile a man, but eating with unwashed hands does not defile him.”