Quotes about Purity
These creatures will make you unclean. Whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean until evening,
- Leviticus 11:24
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 11:26
All the four-footed animals that walk on their paws are unclean for you; whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean until evening,
- Leviticus 11:27
The following creatures that move along the ground are unclean for you: the mole, the mouse, any kind of great lizard,
- Leviticus 11:29
Any food coming into contact with water from that pot will be unclean, and any drink in such a container will be unclean.
- Leviticus 11:34
Nevertheless, a spring or cistern containing water will remain clean, but one who touches a carcass in it will be unclean.
- Leviticus 11:36
If a carcass falls on any seed for sowing, the seed is clean;
- Leviticus 11:37
but if water has been put on the seed and a carcass falls on it, it is unclean for you.
- Leviticus 11:38
Do not defile yourselves by any crawling creature; do not become unclean or defiled by them.
- Leviticus 11:43
For I am the LORD your God; consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, because I am holy. You must not defile yourselves by any creature that crawls along the ground.
- Leviticus 11:44
For I am the LORD, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt so that I would be your God; therefore be holy, because I am holy.
- Leviticus 11:45
You must distinguish between the unclean and the clean, between animals that may be eaten and those that may not.’”
- Leviticus 11:47