Quotes About Purity

If a man lies with his uncleís wife, he has uncovered the nakedness of his uncle. They will bear their sin; they shall die childless.

You must not follow the statutes of the nations I am driving out before you. Because they did all these things, I abhorred them.

You are therefore to distinguish between clean and unclean animals and birds. Do not become contaminated by any animal or bird, or by anything that crawls on the ground; I have set these apart as unclean for you.

You are to be holy to Me because I, the LORD, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be My own.

He is not to defile himself for those related to him by marriage, and so profane himself.

They must be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God. Because they present to the LORD the offerings made by fire, the food of their God, they must be holy.

A priest must not marry a woman defiled by prostitution or divorced by her husband, for the priest is holy to his God.

You are to regard him as holy, since he presents the food of your God. He shall be holy to you, because I the LORD am holy—I who set you apart.

He must not go near any dead body; he must not defile himself, even for his father or mother.

The woman he marries must be a virgin.

He is not to marry a widow, a divorced woman, or one defiled by prostitution. He is to marry a virgin from his own people,

so that he does not defile his offspring among his people, for I am the LORD who sanctifies him.”

“Say to Aaron, ëFor the generations to come, none of your descendants who has a physical defect may approach to offer the food of his God.

No man who has any defect may approach—no man who is blind, lame, disfigured, or deformed;

no man who has a broken foot or hand,

or who is a hunchback or dwarf, or who has an eye defect, a festering rash, scabs, or a crushed testicle.

No descendant of Aaron the priest who has a defect shall approach to present the offerings made by fire to the LORD. Since he has a defect, he is not to come near to offer the food of his God.

but because he has a defect, he must not go near the veil or approach the altar, so as not to desecrate My sanctuaries. For I am the LORD who sanctifies them.í”

If a descendant of Aaron has a skin disease or a discharge, he may not eat the sacred offerings until he is clean. Whoever touches anything defiled by a corpse or by a man who has an emission of semen,

or whoever touches a crawling creature or a person that makes him unclean, whatever the uncleanness may be—

the man who touches any of these will remain unclean until evening. He must not eat from the sacred offerings unless he has bathed himself with water.

When the sun has set, he will become clean, and then he may eat from the sacred offerings, for they are his food.

He must not eat anything found dead or torn by wild animals, which would make him unclean. I am the LORD.

must offer an unblemished male from the cattle, sheep, or goats in order for it to be accepted on your behalf.