Bible Verses About Sanitation

He shall give orders, and they shall wash that part wherein the leprosy is: and he shall shut it up other seven days.

And when he shall see that the former colour is not returned, nor yet the leprosy spread, he shall judge it unclean: and shall burn it with fire, for the leprosy has taken hold of the outside of the garment, or through the whole.

But if the place of the leprosy be somewhat dark, after the garment is washed, he shall tear it off, and divide it from that which is sound.

And if after this there appear in those places that before were without spot, a flying and wandering leprosy: it must be burnt with fire.

If it cease, he shall wash with water the parts that are pure, the second time: and they shall be clean.

This is the law touching the leprosy of any woollen or linen garment, either in the warp or woof, or any thing of skins: how it ought to be cleaned, or pronounced unclean.

This is the rite of a leper, when he is to be cleansed. He shall be brought to the priest:

Who going out of the camp, when he shall find that the leprosy is cleansed,

And when the man hath washed his clothes, he shall shave all the hair of his body, and shall be washed with water: and being purified he shall enter into the camp, yet so that he tarry without his own tent seven days.

And on the seventh day he shall shave the hair of his head, and his beard and his eyebrows, and the hair of all his body. And having washed again his clothes, and his body,

When you shall come into the land of Chanaan, which I will give you for a possession, if there be the plague or leprosy in a house:

He whose house it is, shall go and tell the priest, saying: It seemeth to me, that there is the plague of leprosy in my house,

And he shall command, that they carry forth all things out of the house, before he go into it, and see whether it have the leprosy, let all things become unclean that are in the house. And afterwards he shall go in to view the leprosy of the house.

And if he see in the walls thereof as it were little dints, disfigured with paleness or redness, and lower than all he rest:

He shall go out of the door of the house, and forthwith shut it up seven days,

And returning on the seventh day, he shall look upon it. If he find that the leprosy is spread,

He shall command, that the stones wherein the leprosy is, be taken out, and cast without the city into an unclean place:

And that the house be scraped on the inside round about, and the dust of the scrapings be scattered without the city into an unclean place:

And that other stones be laid in the place of them that were taken away, and the house be plastered with other mortar.

But if after the stones be taken out, and the dust scraped off, and it be plastered with other earth.

The priest going in perceive that the leprosy is returned, and the walls full of spots, it is a lasting leprosy, and the house is unclean.

And they shall destroy it forthwith, and shall cast the stones and timber thereof, and all the dust without the town into an unclean place.

He that entereth into the house when it is shut, shall be unclean until evening,

And he that sleepeth in it, and eateth any thing, shall wash his clothes.

But if the priest going in perceive that the leprosy is not spread in the house, after it was plastered again, he shall purify it, it being cured.