Quotes About Purity

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

and 32,000 women who had not slept with a man.

you must drive out before you all the inhabitants of the land, destroy all their carved images and cast idols, and demolish all their high places.

Instead, this is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their idols in the fire.

You must burn up the images of their gods; do not covet the silver and gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, or you will be ensnared by it; for it is detestable to the LORD your God.

And you must not bring any detestable thing into your house, or you, like it, will be set apart for destruction. You are to utterly detest and abhor it, because it is set apart for destruction.

Destroy completely all the places where the nations you are dispossessing have served their gods—atop the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree.

Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, burn up their Asherah poles, cut down the idols of their gods, and wipe out their names from every place.

You shall not worship the LORD your God in this way.

but you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.

You must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.

you must surely put the inhabitants of that city to the sword. Devote to destruction all its people and livestock.

You must not eat any detestable thing.

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.

but you may not eat anything that does not have fins and scales; it is unclean for you.

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

But you may eat any clean bird.

But if an animal has a defect, is lame or blind, or has any serious flaw, you must not sacrifice it to the LORD your God.

But you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.

No leaven is to be found in all your land for seven days, and none of the meat you sacrifice in the evening of the first day shall remain until morning.

Do not set up any wooden Asherah pole next to the altar you will build for the LORD your God,

and do not set up for yourselves a sacred pillar, which the LORD your God hates.

You shall not sacrifice to the LORD your God an ox or a sheep with any defect or serious flaw, for that is detestable to the LORD your God.

The hands of the witnesses shall be the first in putting him to death, and after that, the hands of all the people. So you must purge the evil from among you.