Purification
38 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
7 sections
Figurative
- Psalm 26:6 I wash my hands in innocence that I may go about Your altar, O LORD,
- Psalm 51:7 Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
- Ezekiel 36:25 I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols.
- Hebrews 10:22 let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
Penalty to be Imposed Upon Those Who do not Observe the Ordinances Concerning
- Leviticus 7:20–21 But if anyone who is unclean eats meat from the peace offering that belongs to the LORD, that person must be cut off from his people. …
- Numbers 19:13 Anyone who touches a human corpse and fails to purify himself defiles the tabernacle of the LORD. That person must be cut off from Israel. He remains unclean, because the water of purification has not been sprinkled on him, and …
- Numbers 19:20 But if a person who is unclean does not purify himself, he will be cut off from the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD. The water of purification has not been sprinkled on him; he is unclean.
Scriptures Relating To
- Genesis 35:2 So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and change your garments.
- Exodus 19:10 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow. They must wash their clothes
- Exodus 19:14 When Moses came down from the mountain to the people, he consecrated them, and they washed their clothes.
- Exodus 29:4 Then present Aaron and his sons at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and wash them with water.
- Exodus 30:18–21 “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, …
- Exodus 40:12 Then bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and wash them with water.
- Exodus 40:30–32 He placed the basin between the Tent of Meeting and the altar and put water in it for washing; …
- Leviticus 8:6 Then Moses presented Aaron and his sons and washed them with water.
- Leviticus 14:8–9 The one being cleansed must wash his clothes, shave off all his hair, and bathe with water; then he will be ceremonially clean. Afterward, he may enter the camp, but he must remain outside his tent for seven days. …
- Leviticus 15:4–13 Any bed on which the man with the discharge lies will be unclean, and any furniture on which he sits will be unclean. …
- Leviticus 15:16–27 When a man has an emission of semen, he must bathe his whole body with water, and he will be unclean until evening. …
- Leviticus 16:4 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.
- Leviticus 16:24 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.
- Leviticus 16:26 The man who released the goat as the scapegoat must wash his clothes and bathe himself with water; afterward he may reenter the camp.
- Leviticus 16:28 The one who burns them must wash his clothes and bathe himself with water, and afterward he may reenter the camp.
- Leviticus 17:15 And any person, whether native or foreigner, who eats anything found dead or mauled by wild beasts must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening; then he will be clean.
- Leviticus 22:3 Tell them that for the generations to come, if any of their descendants in a state of uncleanness approaches the sacred offerings that the Israelites consecrate to the LORD, that person must be cut off from My presence. I am the LORD.
- Numbers 8:6–7 “Take the Levites from among the Israelites and make them ceremonially clean. …
- Numbers 8:21 The Levites purified themselves and washed their clothes, and Aaron presented them as a wave offering before the LORD. Aaron also made atonement for them to cleanse them.
- Numbers 19:7–8 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. …
- Numbers 19:19 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 …
- 2 Chronicles 4:6 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.
- Matthew 15:2 “Why do Your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They do not wash their hands before they eat.”
- Mark 7:2–9 and they saw some of His disciples eating with hands that were defiled— that is, unwashed. …
- Hebrews 9:10 They consist only in food and drink and special washings — external regulations imposed until the time of reform.
Traditions of the Elders Concerning
- Matthew 15:2 “Why do Your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They do not wash their hands before they eat.”
- Mark 7:2–5 and they saw some of His disciples eating with hands that were defiled— that is, unwashed. …
- Mark 7:8–9 You have disregarded the commandment of God to keep the tradition of men.” …
- Luke 11:38 But the Pharisee was surprised to see that Jesus did not first wash before the meal.
Washing Hands in Water, Symbolical of Innocency
- Deuteronomy 21:6 Then all the elders of the city nearest the victim shall wash their hands by the stream over the heifer whose neck has been broken,
- Psalm 26:6 I wash my hands in innocence that I may go about Your altar, O LORD,
- Matthew 27:24 When Pilate saw that he was accomplishing nothing, but that instead a riot was breaking out, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd. “I am innocent of this man’s blood,” he said. “You bear the responsibility.”
Washing Parts of Animal Sacrifices in Water
- Leviticus 1:9 The entrails and legs must be washed with water, and the priest shall burn all of it on the altar as a burnt offering, a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
- Leviticus 1:13 The entrails and legs must be washed with water, and the priest shall present all of it and burn it on the altar; it is a burnt offering, a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
- Leviticus 9:14 He washed the entrails and the legs and burned them atop the burnt offering on the altar.
- 2 Chronicles 4:6 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.
Water of
- Numbers 19:17–21 For the purification of the unclean person, take some of the ashes of the burnt sin offering, put them in a jar, and pour fresh water over them. …
- Numbers 31:23 everything that can withstand the fire— must be put through the fire, and it will be clean. But it must still be purified with the water of purification. And everything that cannot withstand the fire must pass through the water.
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.