Bible Verses About Sanitation

Of all the creatures that live in the water, you may eat anything with fins and scales,

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

You may eat any clean bird,

but these you may not eat: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,

the red kite, the falcon, any kind of kite,

any kind of raven,

the ostrich, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk,

the little owl, the great owl, the white owl,

the desert owl, the osprey, the cormorant,

the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, or the bat.

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

But you may eat any clean bird.

You are not to eat any carcass; you may give it to the foreigner residing within your gates, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a holy people belonging to the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.

Then you may spend the money on anything you desire: cattle, sheep, wine, strong drink, or anything you wish. You are to feast there in the presence of the LORD your God and rejoice with your household.

Eat it within your gates; both the ceremonially unclean and clean may eat it as they would a gazelle or a deer.

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

If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is executed, and you hang his body on a tree,

you must not leave the body on the tree overnight, but you must be sure to bury him that day, because anyone who is hung on a tree is under God’s curse. You must not defile the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.

If any man among you becomes unclean because of a nocturnal emission, he must leave the camp and stay outside.

When evening approaches, he must wash with water, and when the sun sets he may return to the camp.

You must have a place outside the camp to go and relieve yourself.

And you must have a digging tool in your equipment so that when you relieve yourself you can dig a hole and cover up your excrement.

In cases of infectious skin diseases, be careful to diligently follow everything the Levitical priests instruct you. Be careful to do as I have commanded them.

‘Cursed is he who sleeps with his father’s wife, for he has violated his father’s marriage bed.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’

‘Cursed is he who lies with any animal.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’