14 Bible Verses about Cleanliness

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Deuteronomy 23:12-14

"You shall have a place outside the camp, and you shall go out to it. And you shall have a trowel with your tools, and when you sit down outside, you shall dig a hole with it and turn back and cover up your excrement. Because the LORD your God walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver you and to give up your enemies before you, therefore your camp must be holy, so that he may not see anything indecent among you and turn away from you

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Ablution » Cleanliness » Examples of

Genesis 43:24

And when the man had brought the men into Joseph's house and given them water, and they had washed their feet, and when he had given their donkeys fodder,

Exodus 19:14

So Moses went down from the mountain to the people and consecrated the people; and they washed their garments.

2 Samuel 12:20

Then David arose from the earth and washed and anointed himself and changed his clothes. And he went into the house of the LORDand worshiped. He then went to his own house. And when he asked, they set food before him, and he ate.

Mark 7:3

(For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands, holding to the tradition of the elders,

Cleanliness » Encouraged

Ruth 3:3

Wash therefore and anoint yourself, and put on your cloak and go down to the threshing floor, but do not make yourself known to the man until he has finished eating and drinking.

Genesis 35:2

So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, "Put away the foreign gods that are among you and purify yourselves and change your garments.

Leviticus 13:6

And the priest shall examine him again on the seventh day, and if the diseased area has faded and the disease has not spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean; it is only an eruption. And he shall wash his clothes and be clean.

More verses: Numbers 8:7

Cleanliness » Examples of

Genesis 43:24

And when the man had brought the men into Joseph's house and given them water, and they had washed their feet, and when he had given their donkeys fodder,

Exodus 19:14

So Moses went down from the mountain to the people and consecrated the people; and they washed their garments.

2 Samuel 12:20

Then David arose from the earth and washed and anointed himself and changed his clothes. And he went into the house of the LORDand worshiped. He then went to his own house. And when he asked, they set food before him, and he ate.

Mark 7:3

(For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands, holding to the tradition of the elders,

Cleanliness » Figurative

Cleanliness » Regulation relating to, in camp

Deuteronomy 23:12-14

"You shall have a place outside the camp, and you shall go out to it. And you shall have a trowel with your tools, and when you sit down outside, you shall dig a hole with it and turn back and cover up your excrement. Because the LORD your God walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver you and to give up your enemies before you, therefore your camp must be holy, so that he may not see anything indecent among you and turn away from you

Topics on Cleanliness

Cleanliness, Metaphorical Use

Isaiah 4:4

when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and cleansed the bloodstains of Jerusalem from its midst by a spirit of judgment and by a spirit of burning.

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