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Bible Verses About Ablution: Of priests

19 verses · 10 aspects

Verses on Of priests

  1. Then present Aaron and his sons at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and wash them with water.

  2. “You are to make a bronze basin with a bronze stand for washing. Set it between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and put water in it,

  3. with which Aaron and his sons are to wash their hands and feet.

  4. Whenever they enter the Tent of Meeting or approach the altar to minister by presenting an offering made by fire to the LORD, they must wash with water so that they will not die.

  5. Thus they are to wash their hands and feet so that they will not die; this shall be a permanent statute for Aaron and his descendants for the generations to come.”

  6. Then bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and wash them with water.

  7. and from it Moses, Aaron, and his sons washed their hands and feet.

  8. They washed whenever they entered the Tent of Meeting or approached the altar, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

  9. Then Moses presented Aaron and his sons and washed them with water.

  10. He is to wear the sacred linen tunic, with linen undergarments. He must tie a linen sash around him and put on the linen turban. These are holy garments, and he must bathe himself with water before he wears them.

  11. He is to bathe himself with water in a holy place and put on his own clothes. Then he must go out and sacrifice his burnt offering and the people’s burnt offering to make atonement for himself and for the people.

  12. The man who released the goat as the scapegoat must wash his clothes and bathe himself with water; afterward he may reenter the camp.

  13. The one who burns them must wash his clothes and bathe himself with water, and afterward he may reenter the camp.

  14. Then the priest must wash his clothes and bathe his body in water; after that he may enter the camp, but he will be ceremonially unclean until evening.

  15. The one who burned the heifer must also wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and he too will be ceremonially unclean until evening.

  16. Then a man who is ceremonially clean is to gather up the ashes of the heifer and store them in a ceremonially clean place outside the camp. They must be kept by the congregation of Israel for preparing the water of purification; this is for purification from sin.

  17. The man who has gathered up the ashes of the heifer must also wash his clothes, and he will be ceremonially unclean until evening. This is a permanent statute for the Israelites and for the foreigner residing among them.

  18. The man who is ceremonially clean is to sprinkle the unclean person on the third day and on the seventh day. After he purifies the unclean person on the seventh day, the one being cleansed must wash his clothes and bathe in water, and that evening he will be clean.

  19. He also made ten basins for washing and placed five on the south side and five on the north. The parts of the burnt offering were rinsed in them, but the priests used the Sea for washing.