26 Bible Verses about Touching Unclean Things
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Or when there is a person who touches anything ceremonially unclean, whether the carcass of an unclean wild animal, or the carcass of an unclean domesticated animal, or the carcass of an unclean creeping thing, even if he did not realize it, but he himself has become unclean and is guilty; or when he touches human uncleanness with regard to anything by which he can become unclean, even if he did not realize it, but he himself has later come to know it and is guilty;
and anyone who touches them will be unclean, and he must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
Leave! Leave! Get out of there! Don't touch anything unclean! Get out of it! Stay pure, you who carry the Lord's holy items!
The meat which touches anything ceremonially unclean must not be eaten; it must be burned up in the fire. As for ceremonially clean meat, everyone who is ceremonially clean may eat the meat.
When a person touches anything unclean (whether human uncleanness, or an unclean animal, or an unclean detestable creature) and eats some of the meat of the peace offering sacrifice which belongs to the Lord, that person will be cut off from his people.'"
You must not eat from their meat and you must not touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.
"'By these you defile yourselves; anyone who touches their carcass will be unclean until the evening,
All that walk on their paws among all the creatures that walk on all fours are unclean to you. Anyone who touches their carcass will be unclean until the evening,
Also the pig is ritually impure to you; though it has divided hooves, it does not chew the cud. You may not eat their meat or even touch their remains.
"'All animals that divide the hoof but it is not completely split in two and do not chew the cud are unclean to you; anyone who touches them becomes unclean.
However, a spring or a cistern which collects water will be clean, but one who touches their carcass will be unclean.
"'Now if an animal that you may eat dies, whoever touches its carcass will be unclean until the evening.
Anyone who touches the corpse of any dead person and does not purify himself defiles the tabernacle of the Lord. And that person must be cut off from Israel, because the water of purification was not sprinkled on him. He will be unclean; his uncleanness remains on him.
And whoever touches the body of someone killed with a sword in the open fields, or the body of someone who died of natural causes, or a human bone, or a grave, will be unclean seven days.
The one who touches the body of the man with a discharge must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
Anyone whom the man with the discharge touches without having rinsed his hands in water must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
And whatever the unclean person touches will be unclean, and the person who touches it will be unclean until evening.'"
"'When a woman has a discharge and her discharge is blood from her body, she is to be in her menstruation seven days, and anyone who touches her will be unclean until evening.
Anyone who touches his bed must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
Anyone who touches her bed must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
If there is something on the bed or on the furniture she sits on, when he touches it he will be unclean until evening,
Anyone who touches anything that was under him will be unclean until evening, and the one who carries those items must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
Anyone who touches any furniture she sits on must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
Then she will remain thirty-three days in blood purity. She must not touch anything holy and she must not enter the sanctuary until the days of her purification are fulfilled.
Then he came up and touched the bier, and those who carried it stood still. He said, "Young man, I say to you, get up!"