26 Bible Verses about Touching Unclean Things
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Or if someone touches anything unclean—a carcass of an unclean wild animal, or unclean livestock, or an unclean swarming creature—without being aware of it, he is unclean and guilty. Or if he touches human uncleanness—any uncleanness by which one can become defiled—without being aware of it, but later recognizes it, he is guilty.
Everyone who touches them will be unclean; he must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.
Leave, leave, go out from there!
Do not touch anything unclean;
go out from her, purify yourselves,
you who carry the vessels of the Lord.
“Meat that touches anything unclean must not be eaten; it is to be burned up. Everyone who is clean may eat any other meat.
If someone touches anything unclean, whether human uncleanness, an unclean animal, or any unclean, detestable creature, and eats meat from the Lord’s fellowship sacrifice, that person must be cut off from his people.”
Do not eat any of their meat or touch their carcasses—they are unclean for you.
“These will make you unclean. Whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean until evening,
All the four-footed animals that walk on their paws are unclean for you. Whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean until evening,
and the pig, though it has hooves, it does not chew the cud—
it is unclean for you.
You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses.
All animals that have hooves but do not have a divided hoof and do not chew the cud are unclean for you. Whoever touches them becomes unclean.
A spring or cistern containing water will remain clean, but someone who touches a carcass in it will become unclean.
“If one of the animals that you use for food dies, anyone who touches its carcass will be unclean until evening.
Anyone who touches a body of a person who has died, and does not purify himself, defiles the tabernacle of the Lord. That person will be cut off from Israel. He remains unclean because the water for impurity has not been sprinkled on him, and his uncleanness is still on him.
Anyone in the open field who touches a person who has been killed by the sword or has died, or who even touches a human bone, or a grave, will be unclean for seven days.
Whoever touches the body of the man with a discharge is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.
If the man with the discharge touches anyone without first rinsing his hands in water, the person who was touched is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.
Anything the unclean person touches will become unclean, and anyone who touches it will be unclean until evening.”
“When a woman has a discharge, and it consists of blood from her body, she will be unclean because of her menstruation for seven days. Everyone who touches her will be unclean until evening.
Anyone who touches his bed is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.
Everyone who touches her bed is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.
If discharge is on the bed or the furniture she was sitting on, when he touches it he will be unclean until evening.
Whoever touches anything that was under him will be unclean until evening, and whoever carries such things is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.
Everyone who touches any furniture she was sitting on is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.
She will continue in purification from her bleeding for 33 days. She must not touch any holy thing or go into the sanctuary until completing her days of purification.
Then He came up and touched the open coffin, and the pallbearers stopped. And He said, “Young man, I tell you, get up!”
