Sanitation
82 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
14 sections
Carcasses
- Leviticus 5:2 Or if a person touches anything unclean— whether the carcass of any unclean wild animal or livestock or crawling creature— even if he is unaware of it, he is unclean and guilty.
- Leviticus 10:4–5 Moses summoned Mishael and Elzaphan, sons of Aaron’s uncle Uzziel, and said to them, “Come here; carry the bodies of your cousins outside the camp, away from the front of the sanctuary.” …
- Leviticus 11:24–28 These creatures will make you unclean. Whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean until evening, …
- Leviticus 11:31–40 These animals are unclean for you among all the crawling creatures. Whoever touches them when they are dead shall be unclean until evening. …
- Leviticus 22:4 If a descendant of Aaron has a skin disease or a discharge, he may not eat the sacred offerings until he is clean. Whoever touches anything defiled by a corpse or by a man who has an emission of semen,
- Leviticus 22:6 the man who touches any of these will remain unclean until evening. He must not eat from the sacred offerings unless he has bathed himself with water.
- Numbers 9:6 But there were some men who were unclean due to a dead body, so they could not observe the Passover on that day. And they came before Moses and Aaron that same day
- Numbers 9:10 “Tell the Israelites: ‘When any one of you or your descendants is unclean because of a dead body, or is away on a journey, he may still observe the Passover to the LORD.
- Numbers 19:11–16 Whoever touches any dead body will be unclean for seven days. …
- Numbers 31:19 All of you who have killed a person or touched the dead are to remain outside the camp for seven days. On the third day and the seventh day you are to purify both yourselves and your captives.
- Deuteronomy 21:22–23 If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is executed, and you hang his body on a tree, …
Childbirth
- Leviticus 12:3 And on the eighth day the flesh of the boy’s foreskin is to be circumcised.
- Ezekiel 16:4 On the day of your birth your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water for cleansing. You were not rubbed with salt or wrapped in cloths.
Contagion
- Leviticus 5:2–3 Or if a person touches anything unclean— whether the carcass of any unclean wild animal or livestock or crawling creature— even if he is unaware of it, he is unclean and guilty. …
- Leviticus 7:19 Meat that touches anything unclean must not be eaten; it is to be burned up. As for any other meat, anyone who is ceremonially clean may eat it.
- Leviticus 7:21 If one touches anything unclean, whether human uncleanness, an unclean animal, or any unclean, detestable thing, and then eats any of the meat of the peace offering that belongs to the LORD, that person must be cut off from his people.”
- Leviticus 11:24–28 These creatures will make you unclean. Whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean until evening, …
- Leviticus 11:31–40 These animals are unclean for you among all the crawling creatures. Whoever touches them when they are dead shall be unclean until evening. …
- Leviticus 13:2–59 “When someone has a swelling or rash or bright spot on his skin that may be an infectious skin disease, he must be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons who is a priest. …
- Leviticus 14:2–3 “This is the law for the one afflicted with a skin disease on the day of his cleansing, when he is brought to the priest. …
- 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 14:34–48 “When you enter the land of Canaan, which I am giving you as your possession, and I put a contamination of mildew into a house in that land, …
- Leviticus 14:54–57 This is the law for any infectious skin disease, for a scaly outbreak, …
- Leviticus 15:2–13 “Say to the Israelites, ‘When any man has a bodily discharge, the discharge is unclean. …
- Leviticus 15:16–28 When a man has an emission of semen, he must bathe his whole body with water, and he will be unclean until evening. …
- Leviticus 15:32–33 This is the law of him who has a discharge, of the man who has an emission of semen whereby he is unclean, …
- Leviticus 22:4–8 If a descendant of Aaron has a skin disease or a discharge, he may not eat the sacred offerings until he is clean. Whoever touches anything defiled by a corpse or by a man who has an emission of semen, …
- Numbers 5:2–4 “Command the Israelites to send away from the camp anyone with a skin disease, anyone who has a bodily discharge, and anyone who is defiled by a dead body. …
- Numbers 9:6 But there were some men who were unclean due to a dead body, so they could not observe the Passover on that day. And they came before Moses and Aaron that same day
- Numbers 9:10 “Tell the Israelites: ‘When any one of you or your descendants is unclean because of a dead body, or is away on a journey, he may still observe the Passover to the LORD.
- Numbers 19:11–16 Whoever touches any dead body will be unclean for seven days. …
- Numbers 19:22 Anything the unclean person touches will become unclean, and anyone who touches it will be unclean until evening.”
- Numbers 31:19–20 All of you who have killed a person or touched the dead are to remain outside the camp for seven days. On the third day and the seventh day you are to purify both yourselves and your captives. …
- Deuteronomy 23:10–11 If any man among you becomes unclean because of a nocturnal emission, he must leave the camp and stay outside. …
- Deuteronomy 24:8 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.
Disinfection
- Leviticus 2:13 And you shall season each of your grain offerings with salt. You must not leave the salt of the covenant of your God out of your grain offering; you are to add salt to each of your offerings.
- Leviticus 7:19 Meat that touches anything unclean must not be eaten; it is to be burned up. As for any other meat, anyone who is ceremonially clean may eat it.
- Leviticus 11:24–40 These creatures will make you unclean. Whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean until evening, …
- Leviticus 13:6 The priest will examine him again on the seventh day, and if the sore has faded and has not spread on the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean; it is a rash. The person must wash his clothes and be clean.
- Leviticus 13:34 On the seventh day the priest shall examine the scaly outbreak, and if it has not spread on the skin and does not appear to be deeper than the skin, the priest is to pronounce him clean. He must wash his clothes, and he will be clean.
- Leviticus 13:47–59 If any fabric is contaminated with mildew— any wool or linen garment, …
- 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 14:34–48 “When you enter the land of Canaan, which I am giving you as your possession, and I put a contamination of mildew into a house in that land, …
- Leviticus 14:54–57 This is the law for any infectious skin disease, for a scaly outbreak, …
- Leviticus 15:2–13 “Say to the Israelites, ‘When any man has a bodily discharge, the discharge is unclean. …
- Leviticus 15:16–28 When a man has an emission of semen, he must bathe his whole body with water, and he will be unclean until evening. …
- Numbers 31:19–20 All of you who have killed a person or touched the dead are to remain outside the camp for seven days. On the third day and the seventh day you are to purify both yourselves and your captives. …
- Numbers 31:22–24 Only the gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, and lead— …
Filth, Disposition of
- Exodus 29:14 But burn the flesh of the bull and its hide and dung outside the camp; it is a sin offering.
- Exodus 29:34 And if any of the meat of ordination or any bread is left until the morning, you are to burn up the remainder. It must not be eaten, because it is sacred.
- Leviticus 4:11–12 But the hide of the bull and all its flesh, with its head and legs and its entrails and dung— …
- Leviticus 4:21 Then he is to take the bull outside the camp and burn it, just as he burned the first bull. It is the sin offering for the assembly.
- Leviticus 6:30 But no sin offering may be eaten if its blood has been brought into the Tent of Meeting to make atonement in the Holy Place; it must be burned.
- Leviticus 7:17 But any meat of the sacrifice remaining until the third day must be burned up.
- Leviticus 7:19 Meat that touches anything unclean must not be eaten; it is to be burned up. As for any other meat, anyone who is ceremonially clean may eat it.
- Leviticus 8:17 But the bull with its hide, flesh, and dung he burned outside the camp, as the LORD had commanded him.
- Leviticus 8:32 Then you must burn up the remainder of the meat and bread.
- Leviticus 9:11 But he burned up the flesh and the hide outside the camp.
- Leviticus 16:27–28 The bull for the sin offering and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought into the Most Holy Place to make atonement, must be taken outside the camp; and their hides, flesh, and dung must be burned up. …
- Leviticus 19:6 It shall be eaten on the day you sacrifice it, or on the next day; but what remains on the third day must be burned up.
- Deuteronomy 23:12–13 You must have a place outside the camp to go and relieve yourself. …
- Hebrews 13:11 Although the high priest brings the blood of animals into the Holy Place as a sacrifice for sin, the bodies are burned outside the camp.
Food
- Leviticus 3:17 This is a permanent statute for the generations to come, wherever you live: You must not eat any fat or any blood.”
- Leviticus 7:15–19 The meat of the sacrifice of his peace offering of thanksgiving must be eaten on the day he offers it; none of it may be left until morning. …
- Leviticus 7:23–27 “Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘You are not to eat any of the fat of an ox, a sheep, or a goat. …
- Leviticus 11:2–23 “Say to the Israelites, ‘Of all the beasts of the earth, these ones you may eat: …
- Leviticus 11:26–27 Every animal with hooves not completely divided or that does not chew the cud is unclean for you. Whoever touches any of them will be unclean. …
- Leviticus 11:29–43 The following creatures that move along the ground are unclean for you: the mole, the mouse, any kind of great lizard, …
- Leviticus 11:46–47 This is the law regarding animals, birds, all living creatures that move in the water, and all creatures that crawl along the ground. …
- Leviticus 17:10–15 If anyone from the house of Israel or a foreigner living among them eats any blood, I will set My face against that person and cut him off from among his people. …
- Leviticus 19:5–8 When you sacrifice a peace offering to the LORD, you shall offer it for your acceptance. …
- Leviticus 19:26 You must not eat anything with blood still in it. You must not practice divination or sorcery.
- Leviticus 22:8 He must not eat anything found dead or torn by wild animals, which would make him unclean. I am the LORD.
- Deuteronomy 12:16 but you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.
- Deuteronomy 12:20–25 When the LORD your God expands your territory as He has promised, and you crave meat and say, “I want to eat meat,” you may eat it whenever you want. …
- Deuteronomy 14:3–21 You must not eat any detestable thing. …
- Deuteronomy 14:26 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.
- Deuteronomy 15:22–23 Eat it within your gates; both the ceremonially unclean and clean may eat it as they would a gazelle or a deer. …
Gluttony, Disease Resulting From
- Numbers 11:18–20 And say to the people: Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you will eat meat, because you have cried out in the hearing of the LORD, saying: ‘Who will feed us meat? For we were better off in Egypt!’ Therefore the LORD will …
- Numbers 11:31–33 Now a wind sent by the LORD came up, drove in quail from the sea, and brought them near the camp, about two cubits above the surface of the ground, for a day’s journey in every direction around the camp. …
Penalties Concerning
- Deuteronomy 28:15 If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:
- Deuteronomy 28:21–22 The LORD will make the plague cling to you until He has exterminated you from the land that you are entering to possess. …
- Deuteronomy 28:27 The LORD will afflict you with the boils of Egypt, with tumors and scabs and itch from which you cannot be cured.
- Deuteronomy 28:35 The LORD will afflict you with painful, incurable boils on your knees and thighs, from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.
- Deuteronomy 28:45 All these curses will come upon you. They will pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, since you did not obey the LORD your God and keep the commandments and statutes He gave you.
- Deuteronomy 28:59–62 He will bring upon you and your descendants extraordinary disasters, severe and lasting plagues, and terrible and chronic sicknesses. …
Quarantine
- Leviticus 13:2–5 “When someone has a swelling or rash or bright spot on his skin that may be an infectious skin disease, he must be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons who is a priest. …
- Leviticus 13:31–33 But if the priest examines the scaly infection and it does not appear to be deeper than the skin, and there is no black hair in it, the priest shall isolate the infected person for seven days. …
- Leviticus 13:45–46 A diseased person must wear torn clothes and let his hair hang loose, and he must cover his mouth and cry out, ‘Unclean, unclean!’ …
- Leviticus 14:2–3 “This is the law for the one afflicted with a skin disease on the day of his cleansing, when he is brought to the priest. …
- Leviticus 14:8 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 14:34–38 “When you enter the land of Canaan, which I am giving you as your possession, and I put a contamination of mildew into a house in that land, …
- Leviticus 15:19 When a woman has a discharge consisting of blood from her body, she will be unclean due to her menstruation for seven days, and anyone who touches her will be unclean until evening.
- Numbers 5:2–3 “Command the Israelites to send away from the camp anyone with a skin disease, anyone who has a bodily discharge, and anyone who is defiled by a dead body. …
- Numbers 31:11–20 and carried away all the plunder and spoils, both people and animals. …
- Deuteronomy 23:10–11 If any man among you becomes unclean because of a nocturnal emission, he must leave the camp and stay outside. …
Quarantine: Instances of
- Numbers 12:10 As the cloud lifted from above the Tent, suddenly Miriam became leprous, white as snow. Aaron turned toward her, saw that she was leprous,
- Numbers 12:14–15 But the LORD answered Moses, “If her father had but spit in her face, would she not have been in disgrace for seven days? Let her be confined outside the camp for seven days; after that she may be brought back in.” …
- 2 Kings 7:3 Now there were four men with leprosy at the entrance of the city gate, and they said to one another, “Why just sit here until we die?
- 2 Kings 15:5 And the LORD afflicted the king with leprosy until the day he died, so that he lived in a separate house while his son Jotham had charge of the palace and governed the people of the land.
- 2 Chronicles 26:21 So King Uzziah was a leper until the day of his death. He lived in isolation, leprous and cut off from the house of the LORD, while his son Jotham had charge of the royal palace and governed the people of the land.
- Luke 17:12 As He entered one of the villages, He was met by ten lepers. They stood at a distance
Rest Commanded
- Exodus 20:9–11 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, …
- Exodus 31:13–17 “Tell the Israelites, ‘Surely you must keep My Sabbaths, for this will be a sign between Me and you for the generations to come, so that you may know that I am the LORD who sanctifies you. …
- Exodus 34:21–22 Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even in the seasons of plowing and harvesting, you must rest. …
- Exodus 35:2 For six days work may be done, but the seventh day shall be your holy day, a Sabbath of complete rest to the LORD. Whoever does any work on that day must be put to death.
- Leviticus 23:3–8 For six days work may be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, a day of sacred assembly. You must not do any work; wherever you live, it is a Sabbath to the LORD. …
- Leviticus 23:24–42 “Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘On the first day of the seventh month you are to have a day of rest, a sacred assembly announced by trumpet blasts. …
- Leviticus 25:2–12 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: When you enter the land that I am giving you, the land itself must observe a Sabbath to the LORD. …
- Numbers 9:2–3 “The Israelites are to observe the Passover at its appointed time. …
- Numbers 28:16–18 The fourteenth day of the first month is the LORD’s Passover. …
- Numbers 28:25–26 On the seventh day you shall hold a sacred assembly; you must not do any regular work. …
- Numbers 29:1 “On the first day of the seventh month, you are to hold a sacred assembly, and you must not do any regular work. This will be a day for you to sound the trumpets.
- Numbers 29:7 On the tenth day of this seventh month, you are to hold a sacred assembly, and you shall humble yourselves; you must not do any work.
- Deuteronomy 5:12–14 Observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy, as the LORD your God has commanded you. …
Uncleanness
- Leviticus 20:2–6 “Tell the Israelites, ‘Any Israelite or foreigner living in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech must be put to death. The people of the land are to stone him. …
- Leviticus 20:10–21 If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife— with the wife of his neighbor— both the adulterer and the adulteress must surely be put to death. …
- Deuteronomy 27:20–23 ‘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!’ …
Venereal Diseases
- Leviticus 15:2–13 “Say to the Israelites, ‘When any man has a bodily discharge, the discharge is unclean. …
- Leviticus 15:16–28 When a man has an emission of semen, he must bathe his whole body with water, and he will be unclean until evening. …
- Leviticus 15:31–33 You must keep the children of Israel separate from their uncleanness, so that they do not die by defiling My tabernacle, which is among them. …
- Leviticus 22:4 If a descendant of Aaron has a skin disease or a discharge, he may not eat the sacred offerings until he is clean. Whoever touches anything defiled by a corpse or by a man who has an emission of semen,
- Leviticus 22:6 the man who touches any of these will remain unclean until evening. He must not eat from the sacred offerings unless he has bathed himself with water.
Women in Childbirth
- Leviticus 12:2 “Say to the Israelites, ‘A woman who becomes pregnant and gives birth to a son will be unclean for seven days, as she is during the days of her menstruation.
- Leviticus 12:4–5 The woman shall continue in purification from her bleeding for thirty-three days. She must not touch anything sacred or go into the sanctuary until the days of her purification are complete. …
Related topics
DefilementLeprosyFoodCreeping ThingsEthanimPurifications or Baptisms of Individuals Who Were Ceremonially Unclean
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.