Quotes About Tradition

You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses; they are unclean for you.

Everything in the water that does not have fins and scales shall be detestable to you.

However, you may eat the following kinds of flying insects that walk on all fours: those having jointed legs above their feet for hopping on the ground.

Of these you may eat any kind of locust, katydid, cricket, or grasshopper.

These creatures will make you unclean. Whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean until evening,

Every animal with hooves not completely divided or that does not chew the cud is unclean for you. Whoever touches any of them will be unclean.

The following creatures that move along the ground are unclean for you: the mole, the mouse, any kind of great lizard,

If any of them falls into a clay pot, everything in it will be unclean; you must break the pot.

Whoever eats from the carcass must wash his clothes and will be unclean until evening, and anyone who picks up the carcass must wash his clothes and will be unclean until evening.

“Say to the Israelites, ëA woman who becomes pregnant and gives birth to a son will be unclean for seven days, as she is during the days of her menstruation.

And on the eighth day the flesh of the boyís foreskin is to be circumcised.

If, however, she gives birth to a daughter, the woman will be unclean for two weeks as she is during her menstruation. Then she must continue in purification from her bleeding for sixty-six days.

When the days of her purification are complete, whether for a son or for a daughter, she is to bring to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting a year-old lamb for a burnt offering and a young pigeon or a turtledove for a sin offering.

On the eighth day he is to bring two unblemished male lambs, an unblemished ewe lamb a year old, a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with olive oil, and one log of olive oil.

Then the priest is to pour some of the oil into his left palm

and sprinkle with his right forefinger some of the oil in his left palm seven times before the LORD.

And anyone who sleeps in the house or eats in it must wash his clothes.

He is to take two birds, cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop to purify the house;

Then he shall take the cedar wood, the hyssop, the scarlet yarn, and the live bird, dip them in the blood of the slaughtered bird and the fresh water, and sprinkle the house seven times.

to determine when something is clean or unclean. This is the law regarding skin diseases and mildew.”

Anyone who touches his bed must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.

Anything on which she lies or sits during her menstruation will be unclean,

When a woman has a discharge of her blood for many days at a time other than her menstrual period, or if it continues beyond her period, she will be unclean all the days of her unclean discharge, just as she is during the days of her menstruation.

Any bed on which she lies or any furniture on which she sits during the days of her discharge will be unclean, like her bed during her menstrual period.