Bible Verses About Defilement

or who has touched a reptile or insect that can make him unclean, or a man who is unclean for any reason and who can transmit to him his uncleanness -

the person who touches any of these will be unclean until evening and is not to eat the holy things unless he bathes his body in water.

After sunset he will be clean; and afterwards, he may eat the holy things; because they are his food.

Then the cohen is to wash his clothes and himself in water, after which he may re-enter the camp; but the cohen will remain unclean until evening.

The person who burned up the heifer is to wash his clothes and himself in water, but he will remain unclean until evening.

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.

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.

They are not to come to any dead person, because this would make them unclean; however, for father, mother, son, daughter, brother or sister who has had no husband they may make themselves unclean.

After a cohen has been purified, he is to wait seven days.

If, along with the Messiah, you died to the elemental spirits of the world, then why, as if you still belonged to the world, are you letting yourselves be bothered by its rules? —

“Don’t touch this!” “Don’t eat that!” “Don’t handle the other!”

Such prohibitions are concerned with things meant to perish by being used [not by being avoided!], and they are based on man-made rules and teachings.