Leviticus 15:31

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Summary of Purification Regulations for Bodily Discharges“‘Thus you are to set the Israelites apart from their impurity so that they do not die in their impurity by defiling my tabernacle which is in their midst.

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Referenced Verses

  • Num 5:3 : 3 You must expel both men and women; you must put them outside the camp, so that they will not defile their camps, among which I live.”
  • Num 19:13 : 13 Anyone who touches the corpse of any dead person and does not purify himself defiles the tabernacle of the LORD. And that person must be cut off from Israel, because the water of purification was not sprinkled on him. He will be unclean; his uncleanness remains on him.
  • Num 19:20 : 20 But the man who is unclean and does not purify himself, that person must be cut off from among the community, because he has polluted the sanctuary of the LORD; the water of purification was not sprinkled on him, so he is unclean.
  • Ezek 5:11 : 11 “Therefore, as surely as I live, says the Sovereign LORD, because you defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable idols and with all your abominable practices, I will withdraw; my eye will not pity you, nor will I spare you.
  • Ezek 23:38 : 38 Moreover, they have done this to me: In the very same day they desecrated my sanctuary and profaned my Sabbaths.
  • Ezek 44:5-7 : 5 The LORD said to me:“Son of man, pay attention, watch closely and listen carefully to everything I tell you concerning all the statutes of the LORD’s house and all its laws. Pay attention to the entrances to the temple with all the exits of the sanctuary. 6 Say to the rebellious, to the house of Israel,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Enough of all your abominable practices, O house of Israel! 7 When you bring foreigners, those uncircumcised in heart and in flesh, into my sanctuary, you desecrate it– even my house– when you offer my food, the fat and the blood. You have broken my covenant by all your abominable practices.
  • Ezek 44:23 : 23 Moreover, they will teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and show them how to distinguish between the ceremonially unclean and the clean.
  • Dan 9:27 : 27 He will confirm a covenant with many for one week. But in the middle of that week he will bring sacrifices and offerings to a halt. On the wing of abominations will come one who destroys, until the decreed end is poured out on the one who destroys.”
  • 1 Cor 3:17 : 17 If someone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, which is what you are.
  • Heb 10:29 : 29 How much greater punishment do you think that person deserves who has contempt for the Son of God, and profanes the blood of the covenant that made him holy, and insults the Spirit of grace?
  • Heb 12:14-15 : 14 Do Not Reject God’s Warning Pursue peace with everyone, and holiness, for without it no one will see the Lord. 15 See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God, that no one be like a bitter root springing up and causing trouble, and through it many become defiled.
  • Jude 1:4 : 4 For certain men have secretly slipped in among you– men who long ago were marked out for the condemnation I am about to describe– ungodly men who have turned the grace of our God into a license for evil and who deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
  • Deut 24:8 : 8 Respect for Human Dignity Be careful during an outbreak of leprosy to follow precisely all that the Levitical priests instruct you; as I have commanded them, so you should do.
  • Ps 66:18 : 18 If I had harbored sin in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.
  • Lev 11:47 : 47 to distinguish between the unclean and the clean, between the living creatures that may be eaten and the living creatures that must not be eaten.’”
  • Lev 13:59 : 59 Summary of Infection Regulations This is the law of the diseased infection in the garment of wool or linen, or the warp or woof, or any article of leather, for pronouncing it clean or unclean.
  • Lev 19:30 : 30 Purity, Honor, Respect, and Honesty“‘You must keep my Sabbaths and fear my sanctuary. I am the LORD.
  • Lev 20:3 : 3 I myself will set my face against that man and cut him off from the midst of his people, because he has given some of his children to Molech and thereby defiled my sanctuary and profaned my holy name.
  • Lev 21:23 : 23 but he must not go near the special curtain or step forward to the altar because he has a physical flaw. Thus he must not profane my holy places, for I am the LORD who sanctifies them.’”

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 15:32-33
    2 verses
    81%

    32This is the law for the one with a discharge: for the one who has a seminal emission and becomes unclean by it,

    33for the one who is sick in her menstruation, for the one with a discharge, whether male or female, and for a man who goes to bed with an unclean woman.’”

  • Num 19:11-14
    4 verses
    81%

    11Purification from Uncleanness“‘Whoever touches the corpse of any person will be ceremonially unclean seven days.

    12He must purify himself with water on the third day and on the seventh day, and so will be clean. But if he does not purify himself on the third day and the seventh day, then he will not be clean.

    13Anyone who touches the corpse of any dead person and does not purify himself defiles the tabernacle of the LORD. And that person must be cut off from Israel, because the water of purification was not sprinkled on him. He will be unclean; his uncleanness remains on him.

    14“‘This is the law: When a man dies in a tent, anyone who comes into the tent and all who are in the tent will be ceremonially unclean seven days.

  • Num 5:2-3
    2 verses
    81%

    2“Command the Israelites to expel from the camp every leper, everyone who has a discharge, and whoever becomes defiled by a corpse.

    3You must expel both men and women; you must put them outside the camp, so that they will not defile their camps, among which I live.”

  • Exod 30:20-21
    2 verses
    80%

    20When they enter the tent of meeting, they must wash with water so that they do not die. Also, when they approach the altar to minister by burning incense as an offering made by fire to the LORD,

    21they must wash their hands and their feet so that they do not die. And this will be a perpetual ordinance for them and for their descendants throughout their generations.”

  • Num 19:20-22
    3 verses
    79%

    20But the man who is unclean and does not purify himself, that person must be cut off from among the community, because he has polluted the sanctuary of the LORD; the water of purification was not sprinkled on him, so he is unclean.

    21“‘So this will be a perpetual ordinance for them: The one who sprinkles the water of purification must wash his clothes, and the one who touches the water of purification will be unclean until evening.

    22And whatever the unclean person touches will be unclean, and the person who touches it will be unclean until evening.’”

  • Lev 15:30
    79%

    30and the priest is to make one a sin offering and the other a burnt offering. So the priest is to make atonement for her before the LORD from her discharge of impurity.

  • Lev 15:26-27
    2 verses
    79%

    26Any bed she lies on all the days of her discharge will be to her like the bed of her menstruation, any furniture she sits on will be unclean like the impurity of her menstruation,

    27and anyone who touches them will be unclean, and he must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

  • Num 18:22
    78%

    22No longer may the Israelites approach the tent of meeting, or else they will bear their sin and die.

  • Lev 22:3-6
    4 verses
    78%

    3Say to them,‘Throughout your generations, if any man from all your descendants approaches the holy offerings which the Israelites consecrate to the LORD while he is impure, that person must be cut off from before me. I am the LORD.

    4No man from the descendants of Aaron who is diseased or has a discharge may eat the holy offerings until he becomes clean. The one who touches anything made unclean by contact with a dead person, or a man who has a seminal emission,

    5or a man who touches a swarming thing by which he becomes unclean, or touches a person by which he becomes unclean, whatever that person’s impurity–

    6the person who touches any of these will be unclean until evening and must not eat from the holy offerings unless he has bathed his body in water.

  • Lev 15:1-3
    3 verses
    78%

    1Male Bodily Discharges The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron:

    2“Speak to the Israelites and tell them,‘When any man has a discharge from his body, his discharge is unclean.

    3Now this is his uncleanness in regard to his discharge– whether his body secretes his discharge or blocks his discharge, he is unclean. All the days that his body has a discharge or his body blocks his discharge, this is his uncleanness.

  • Lev 10:10
    78%

    10as well as to distinguish between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean,

  • Lev 22:9
    78%

    9They must keep my charge so that they do not incur sin on account of it and therefore die because they profane it. I am the LORD who sanctifies them.

  • Num 18:32
    78%

    32And you will bear no sin concerning it when you offer up the best of it. And you must not profane the holy things of the Israelites, or else you will die.’”

  • Num 8:6-7
    2 verses
    77%

    6“Take the Levites from among the Israelites and purify them.

    7And do this to them to purify them: Sprinkle water of purification on them; then have them shave all their body and wash their clothes, and so purify themselves.

  • Lev 16:16-17
    2 verses
    77%

    16So he is to make atonement for the holy place from the impurities of the Israelites and from their transgressions with regard to all their sins, and thus he is to do for the Meeting Tent which resides with them in the midst of their impurities.

    17Nobody is to be in the Meeting Tent when he enters to make atonement in the holy place until he goes out, and he has made atonement on his behalf, on behalf of his household, and on behalf of the whole assembly of Israel.

  • Lev 21:1
    77%

    1Rules for the Priests The LORD said to Moses:“Say to the priests, the sons of Aaron– say to them,‘For a dead person no priest is to defile himself among his people,

  • Lev 15:15-16
    2 verses
    77%

    15and the priest is to make one of them a sin offering and the other a burnt offering. So the priest is to make atonement for him before the LORD for his discharge.

    16“‘When a man has a seminal emission, he must bathe his whole body in water and be unclean until evening,

  • Lev 15:7
    77%

    7The one who touches the body of the man with a discharge must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

  • Lev 18:24
    76%

    24Warning against the Abominations of the Nations“‘Do not defile yourselves with any of these things, for the nations which I am about to drive out before you have been defiled with all these things.

  • Lev 18:30
    76%

    30You must obey my charge not to practice any of the abominable statutes that have been done before you, so that you do not defile yourselves by them. I am the LORD your God.’”

  • Lev 15:10
    76%

    10Anyone who touches anything that was under him will be unclean until evening, and the one who carries those items must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

  • Lev 15:21-22
    2 verses
    76%

    21Anyone who touches her bed must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

    22Anyone who touches any furniture she sits on must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

  • Num 31:24
    76%

    24You must wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you will be ceremonially clean, and afterward you may enter the camp.’”

  • Lev 16:19
    76%

    19Then he is to sprinkle on it some of the blood with his finger seven times, and cleanse and consecrate it from the impurities of the Israelites.

  • Lev 14:11
    76%

    11and the priest who pronounces him clean will have the man who is being cleansed stand along with these offerings before the LORD at the entrance of the Meeting Tent.

  • Lev 15:5
    76%

    5Anyone who touches his bed must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

  • Num 8:15
    76%

    15“After this, the Levites will go in to do the work of the tent of meeting. So you must cleanse them and offer them like a wave offering.

  • Lev 11:32
    76%

    32Also, anything they fall on when they die will become unclean– any wood vessel or garment or article of leather or sackcloth. Any such vessel with which work is done must be immersed in water and will be unclean until the evening. Then it will become clean.

  • Lev 16:28
    75%

    28and the one who burns them must wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward he may reenter the camp.

  • Ezek 44:25
    75%

    25“‘They must not come near a dead person or they will be defiled; however, for father, mother, son, daughter, brother or unmarried sister, they may defile themselves.

  • Lev 22:15
    75%

    15They must not profane the holy offerings which the Israelites contribute to the LORD,

  • Lev 17:16
    75%

    16But if he does not wash his clothes and does not bathe his body, he will bear his punishment for iniquity.’”