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Bible Verses About Ablution

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  1. A man who is clean is to collect the ashes of the heifer and store them outside the camp in a clean place. They are to be kept for the community of the people of Isra'el to prepare water for purification from sin.

  2. The one who collected the ashes of the heifer is to wash his clothes and be unclean until evening. For the people of Isra'el and for the foreigner staying with them this will be a permanent regulation.

  3. The clean person will sprinkle the unclean person on the third and seventh days. On the seventh day he will purify him; then he will wash his clothes and himself in water; and he will be clean at evening.

  4. All the leaders of the town nearest the murder victim are to wash their hands over the cow whose neck was broken in the vadi.

  5. So he brought him home and gave food to the donkeys. Then they washed their feet, and ate and drank.

  6. Then David said to Uriyah, "Go down to your house and wash your feet." Uriyah left the king's palace and was followed by a present of food from the king.

  7. He also made ten basins for washing and put five on the right and five on the left. Items needed for the burnt offerings would be cleansed in these, but the Sea was for the cohanim to wash in.

  8. I will wash my hands in innocence and walk around your altar, ADONAI,

  9. [She] I've removed my coat; must I put it back on? I've washed my feet; must I dirty them again?

  10. As for your birth - on the day you were born nobody cut your umbilical cord, washed you in water to clean you off, rubbed salt on you or wrapped you in cloth.

  11. But you, when you fast, wash your face and groom yourself,

  12. "Why is it that your talmidim break the Tradition of the Elders? They don't do n'tilat-yadayim before they eat!"

  13. When Pilate saw that he was accomplishing nothing, but rather that a riot was starting, he took water, washed his hands in front of the crowd, and said, "My hands are clean of this man's blood; it's your responsibility."

  14. and saw that some of his talmidim ate with ritually unclean hands, that is, without doing n'tilat-yadayim.

  15. (For the P'rushim, and indeed all the Judeans, holding fast to the Tradition of the Elders, do not eat unless they have given their hands a ceremonial washing.

  16. Also, when they come from the marketplace they do not eat unless they have rinsed their hands up to the wrist; and they adhere to many other traditions, such as washing cups, pots and bronze vessels.)

  17. The P'rushim and the Torah-teachers asked him, "Why don't your talmidim live in accordance with the Tradition of the Elders, but instead eat with ritually unclean hands?"

  18. "You depart from God's command and hold onto human tradition. Indeed,"

  19. he said to them, "you have made a fine art of departing from God's command in order to keep your tradition!

  20. stood behind Yeshua at his feet and wept until her tears began to wet his feet. Then she wiped his feet with her own hair, kissed his feet and poured the perfume on them.

  21. Then, turning to the woman, he said to Shim`on, "Do you see this woman? I came into your house -- you didn't give me water for my feet, but this woman has washed my feet with her tears and dried them with her hair!

  22. and the Parush was surprised that he didn’t begin by doing n’tilat yadayim before the meal.

  23. However, the Lord said to him, “Now then, you P’rushim, you clean the outside of the cup and plate; but inside, you are full of robbery and wickedness.

  24. Then he poured some water into a basin and began to wash the feet of the talmidim and wipe them off with the towel wrapped around him.

  25. It happened that just at that time, she took sick and died. After washing her, they laid her in a room upstairs.