14 occurrences

'Impure' in the Bible

If she bears a female child, she will be impure fourteen days as during her menstrual flow, and she will remain sixty-six days in blood purity.

Say to them, 'Throughout your generations, if any man from all your descendants approaches the holy offerings which the Israelites consecrate to the Lord while he is impure, that person must be cut off from before me. I am the Lord.

On the other hand, you may slaughter and eat meat as you please when the Lord your God blesses you in all your villages. Both the ritually pure and impure may eat it, whether it is a gazelle or an ibex.

Like you eat the gazelle or ibex, so you may eat these; the ritually impure and pure alike may eat them.

However, you may not eat the following animals among those that chew the cud or those that have divided hooves: the camel, the hare, and the rock badger. (Although they chew the cud, they do not have divided hooves and are therefore ritually impure to you).

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.

but whatever does not have fins and scales you may not eat; it is ritually impure to you.

and any winged thing on the ground are impure to you -- they may not be eaten.

You may eat it in your villages, whether you are ritually impure or clean, just as you would eat a gazelle or an ibex.

When you go out as an army against your enemies, guard yourselves against anything impure.

If there is someone among you who is impure because of some nocturnal emission, he must leave the camp; he may not reenter it immediately.

her first husband who divorced her is not permitted to remarry her after she has become ritually impure, for that is offensive to the Lord. You must not bring guilt on the land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.

But if your own land is impure, cross over to the Lord's own land, where the Lord himself lives, and settle down among us. But don't rebel against the Lord or us by building for yourselves an altar aside from the altar of the Lord our God.

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