Skip to content

Bible Verses About Sanitation

289 verses · 10 aspects

Key Bible Verses

Filter by Book
  1. And whatsoever goeth upon its paws, among all beasts that go on all fours, they are unclean unto you: whoso toucheth their carcass shall be unclean until the even.

  2. And he that beareth the carcass of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: they are unclean unto you.

  3. And these are they which are unclean unto you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth: the weasel, and the mouse, and the great lizard after its kind,

  4. and the gecko, and the land-crocodile, and the lizard, and the sand-lizard, and the chameleon.

  5. These are they which are unclean to you among all that creep: whosoever doth touch them, when they are dead, shall be unclean until the even.

  6. And upon whatsoever any of them, when they are dead, doth fall, it shall be unclean; whether it be any vessel of wood, or raiment, or skin, or sack, whatsoever vessel it be, wherewith any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the even; then shall it be clean.

  7. And every earthen vessel, whereinto any of them falleth, whatsoever is in it shall be unclean, and it ye shall break.

  8. All food therein which may be eaten, that on which water cometh, shall be unclean; and all drink that may be drunk in every such vessel shall be unclean.

  9. And every thing whereupon any part of their carcass falleth shall be unclean; whether oven, or range for pots, it shall be broken in pieces: they are unclean, and shall be unclean unto you.

  10. Nevertheless a fountain or a pit wherein is a gathering of water shall be clean: but that which toucheth their carcass shall be unclean.

  11. And if aught of their carcass fall upon any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean.

  12. But if water be put upon the seed, and aught of their carcass fall thereon, it is unclean unto you.

  13. And if any beast, of which ye may eat, die; he that toucheth the carcass thereof shall be unclean until the even.

  14. And he that eateth of the carcass of it shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: he also that beareth the carcass of it shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even.

  15. And every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth is an abomination; it shall not be eaten.

  16. Whatsoever goeth upon the belly, and whatsoever goeth upon all fours, or whatsoever hath many feet, even all creeping things that creep upon the earth, them ye shall not eat; for they are an abomination.

  17. Ye shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creepeth, neither shall ye make yourselves unclean with them, that ye should be defiled thereby.

  18. This is the law of the beast, and of the bird, and of every living creature that moveth in the waters, and of every creature that creepeth upon the earth;

  19. to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean, and between the living thing that may be eaten and the living thing that may not be eaten.

  20. Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman conceive seed, and bear a man-child, then she shall be unclean seven days; as in the days of the impurity of her sickness shall she be unclean.

  21. And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.

  22. And she shall continue in the blood of her purifying three and thirty days; she shall touch no hallowed thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying be fulfilled.

  23. But if she bear a maid-child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her impurity; and she shall continue in the blood of her purifying threescore and six days.

  24. When a man shall have in the skin of his flesh a rising, or a scab, or a bright spot, and it become in the skin of his flesh the plague of leprosy, then he shall be brought unto Aaron the priest, or unto one of his sons the priests:

  25. and the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of the flesh: and if the hair in the plague be turned white, and the appearance of the plague be deeper than the skin of his flesh, it is the plague of leprosy; and the priest shall look on him, and pronounce him unclean.