Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
General references
Bible References
Purge
Leviticus 14:4
the priest will order that two ritually clean birds be brought, along with a piece of cedar wood, a red cord, and a sprig of hyssop.
Numbers 19:18
A person who is clean will take a sprig of hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle the tent, all the furnishings, and all the people who were in the tent with the dead body. He must also sprinkle any person who has touched a human bone or a grave and any person who has touched someone who has been killed or who has died naturally.
Hebrews 9:19
When Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the Law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people,
And
Hebrews 9:13
The blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes from the burning of a young cow, sprinkled on the unclean made them outwardly clean.
1 John 1:7
If we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
Revelation 1:5
And from Jesus Christ, who is the Faithful Witness, and the firstborn from the dead, and the Ruler of the kings of the earth. To the one who loves us and released us from our sins by his blood.
Whiter
Isaiah 1:18
Come now, let us reason together (make things right) (correct matters) between us! Says Jehovah. Though your sins are like scarlet, they will become as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they will become as white as wool.
Ephesians 5:26
This is so he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word.
Revelation 7:13
One of the elders asked me: Who are these dressed in white robes? And where are they from?
General references
Leviticus 15:5
Those who touch his bed must wash their clothes and their bodies. They will be unclean until evening.
Leviticus 16:30
On that day the ritual is to be performed to purify them from all their sins, so that they will be ritually clean.
Numbers 19:6
The priest will take some cedar wood, a hyssop sprig, and some red yarn and throw them onto the burning cow.