Thematic Bible: Jewish laws concerning


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his body shall not hang all night on the tree, but you shall most certainly bury him on the same day (for he who is hanged is cursed by God), so that you do not defile your land which the Lord your God gives you as an inheritance.

nor shall he approach any dead person, nor defile himself [by doing so, even] for his father or for his mother;

‘All the time that he separates himself to the Lord he shall not go near a dead body.

But there were certain men who were [ceremonially] unclean because of [touching] the dead body of a man, so they could not observe the Passover on that day; so they came before Moses and Aaron that same day.


Then Haggai said, “If one who is [ceremonially] unclean because of [contact with] a corpse touches any of these [articles of food], will it be unclean?” And the priests answered, “It will be unclean.” [Ceremonial uncleanness, like sin, is infectious.]


“When you go out as an army [to fight] against your enemies, you shall keep yourselves from every evil [thing].


When you approach the battle, the priest shall come forward and speak to the people,

Or what king, when he sets out to meet another king in battle, will not first sit down and consider whether he is strong enough with ten thousand men to encounter the one who is coming against him with twenty thousand?