17 Bible Verses about People Being Polluted

Jacob learned that his daughter had been disgraced. Since his sons were out in the fields with his livestock, he did nothing until they came back.

Jacob's sons wanted to get even with Shechem and his father because of what happened to their sister.

The sons of Jacob came upon the slain. They plundered the city, because their sister had been defiled.

Without mercy Jehovah destroyed every village in Judah. He tore down the forts that defended the land. He brought disgrace on the kingdom and its rulers.

I let them defile themselves with their own offerings, and I let them sacrifice their first-born sons. This was to punish them and show them that I am Jehovah.'

The Babylonians came to her, to the bed of love, and defiled her with their acts of prostitution. When they had defiled her, she became disgusted with them.

I will treat you with contempt and cover you with filth. People will stare at you in horror.

Woe to you! You are as the tombs that do not appear and men walk over them and do not know it.

See that no one misses the grace of God; that no bitter root spring up to cause trouble and defile many.

The tongue is like fire, the place of iniquity among our members. It defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of our life. It is set ablaze like the ever-burning fires in the Valley of Hinnom (Greek: Gehenna: symbolic of total destruction).

If you touch anything unclean such as an unclean dead body of a wild or tame animal or the body of an unclean, swarming creature and then ignore what you did, you are unclean and will be guilty.

When someone touches anything unclean, whether human uncleanness, or an unclean animal, or any unclean detestable thing, and eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings which belong to Jehovah, that person shall be cut off from his people.'

They are wandering like blind men in the streets. They are polluted with blood. Men may not touch their robes.

Everyone who killed a person or touched a dead body must stay outside the camp seven days. You and your prisoners of war must use the ritual water on the third and seventh days in order to take away your sin.

The priest must then wash his clothes and his body. After that, he may go into the camp. But he will be unclean until evening.

The person who burned the calf must also wash his clothes and his body. He will be unclean until evening.

The one who collected the ashes must wash his clothes. He remains unclean until evening. This regulation is valid for all time to come, both for the Israelites and for the foreigners living among them.