50 Bible Verses about Washing

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Exodus 30:17-21

And Jehovah will speak to Moses, saying, Make a brass wash-basin, and its pedestal brass, for washing: and give it between the tent of appointment and between the altar, and give water there. And Aaron and his son washed from it their hands and their feet.read more.
In their coming into the tent of appointment, they shall wash with water, and they shall not die: or in their drawing near to the altar to serve, to burn a sacrifice to Jehovah. And they shall wash their hands and their feet, and they shall not die: and it was to them a law forever, to him and to his seed and to their generations.

Leviticus 13:53-54

And if the priest shall see, and behold, the stroke spread not in the garment, or in the warp or in the woof, or in any vessel of skin; And the priest commanded, and they washed that in which was the stroke, and he shut it up seven days, the second time.

Exodus 40:30-32

And he will put up the washbasin between the tent of appointment and between the altar, and he will give there water to wash. And Moses and Aaron and his sons washed from it their hands and their feet: In their going into the tent of appointment, and in their drawing near to the altar, they will wash; as Jehovah commanded Moses.

Leviticus 6:27

Every one touching upon its flesh shall be consecrated: and when shall be sprinkled from its blood upon his garment, what shall be sprinkled upon it thou shalt wash in the holy place.

Leviticus 14:8-9

And he being cleansed, washed his garments and shaved all his hair, and washed in water and was clean: and afterwards he shall come into the camp and dwelt without his tent seven days. And it was in the seventh day, he shall shave all his hair off his head, and his beard, and the front of his eyes; and all his hair shall he shave off; and he washed his garments, and washed his flesh in water, and was clean.

Leviticus 15:2-13

Speak to the sons of Israel, and say to them, When a man, a man, there shall be a flowing from his flesh, his flowing unclean. And this shall be his uncleanness in his flowing: his flesh running with his flowing, or his flesh sealed up from his flowing, it is his uncleanness. Every bed which he flowing shall lie upon it, shall be unclean: and every vessel which he shall sit upon it, shall be unclean.read more.
And a man who shall touch upon his bed, shall cleanse his garments and shall wash in water, and be unclean till evening. And he sitting upon a vessel which he flowing, shall sit upon it, shall cleanse his garments, and wash in water, and shall be unclean till the evening. And he touching upon the flesh of him flowing, shall wash his garments, and wash in water, and shall be unclean till the evening. And if he flowing shall spit upon the clean; and he washed his garments, and washed in water, and was unclean till the evening. And every seat which he flowing shall ride upon it, shall be unclean. And every one touching upon any thing which shall be under him, shall be unclean till the evening: and he lifting up these things, shall wash his garments, and he washed in water, and was unclean till the evening. And every one which he flowing shall touch upon him (and washed not his hands in water), he washed his garments, and washed in water and was unclean till the evening. And the vessel of earthen which he flowing shall touch upon it, shall be broken: and every vessel of wood shall be washed in water. And when he flowing shall be cleansed from his flowing, and he numbered to him seven days for his cleansing, and he washed his garments and washed his flesh in living water, and was clean.

Leviticus 16:24

And he washed his flesh in water in the holy place, and he put on his garments and came forth, and did his burnt-offering, and the burnt-offering of the people, and expiated for himself, and for the people.

Numbers 31:24

And wash ye your garments in the seventh day, and be purified, and afterwards ye shall come into the camp.

2 Chronicles 4:6

And he will make ten wash-basins, and give five from the right, and five from the left, to wash in them: the work of the burnt-offering they will cleanse in them; and the sea for the priests to wash in it

1 Kings 7:38

And he will make ten wash-basins of brass: the one wash-basin will hold forty baths, four by the cubit the one wash-basin, the one wash-basin upon the one base to the ten bases

John 2:6

And six stone water-buckets were placed there, according to the purification of the Jews, containing each two or three measures.

Matthew 15:17-20

Do ye not yet understand, that everything going into the mouth proceeds to the belly, and is cast out in the privy? But the things going forth out of the mouth come from the heart, and these pollute the man. For from the heart come forth evil reflections, slaughters, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, defamations:read more.
These are the things polluting a man: but to eat with unwashed hands pollutes not a man.

Mark 7:20-23

And he said, That going out of a man, that pollutes a man. For within, out of the heart of men, go forth evil reflections, adulteries, fornications, murders, Thefts, overreaching, deceit, licentiousness, an evil eye, defamation, pride, foolishness:read more.
All these evils go out from within, and pollute a man.

Mark 7:1-9

And the Pharisees are gathered together to him, and certain of the scribes, having come from Jerusalem, And having seen some of his disciples with common hands, that is, unwashed, eating loaves, they rebuked. (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they vigorously wash hands, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.read more.
And from the market-place, except they be immersed, they eat not. And there are many other things which they received to hold; the immersion of cups, and of measures, and of brazen vases, and of chairs.) Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Wherefore do not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashed hands? And he having answered, said to them, That Esaias prophesied well concerning you, as it has been written, This people honour me with lips, and their heart keeps far from me. And in vain they revere me, teaching doctrines the commands of men. For having left the command of God, ye hold firmly to the tradition of men, the immersion of measures and cups: and many other such like things ye do. And he said to them, Well do ye abrogate the command of God, that ye might keep your tradition.

Matthew 15:1-3

Then came to Jesus from Jerusalem the scribes and Pharisees, saying, Wherefore do thy disciples pass by the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread. And he, having answered, said to them, Wherefore do ye also pass by the command of God by your tradition

Mark 7:14-15

And having called all the crowd, he said to them, Hear me, all ye, and do ye understand: There is nothing from without a man, entering into him, which can defile him: but things coming out from him, these are the things polluting the man.

Matthew 15:10-11

And having called the crowd, he said to them, Hear ye, and understand. Not that coming into the mouth pollutes the man; but that going forth out of the mouth, this pollutes the man.

Luke 11:37-41

And in the speaking, a certain Pharisee asked him that he would dine with him: and having come in he reclined. And the Pharisee having seen, wondered that he was not first washed before dinner. And the Lord said to him, Now ye Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and trencher; and your inside is full of plunder and wickedness.read more.
O foolish, has not he having made the outside, also made the inside? But of the things being, give alms; and, behold, all things are clean to you.

Leviticus 11:24-25

And for these ye shall be unclean: all touching upon their carcass shall be unclean till evening. And every one lifting up from their carcass shall cleanse his garment; and be unclean till evening.

Leviticus 11:28

And be lifting up their carcass shall cleanse his garments, and be unclean till evening: they are unclean to you.

Leviticus 13:6

And the priest saw him in the seventh day, the second time, and behold, the stroke dim, and the stroke spread not in the skin, and the priest cleansed him: it is a scab: and he washed his garments and was clean.

Leviticus 15:4-8

Every bed which he flowing shall lie upon it, shall be unclean: and every vessel which he shall sit upon it, shall be unclean. And a man who shall touch upon his bed, shall cleanse his garments and shall wash in water, and be unclean till evening. And he sitting upon a vessel which he flowing, shall sit upon it, shall cleanse his garments, and wash in water, and shall be unclean till the evening.read more.
And he touching upon the flesh of him flowing, shall wash his garments, and wash in water, and shall be unclean till the evening. And if he flowing shall spit upon the clean; and he washed his garments, and washed in water, and was unclean till the evening.

Leviticus 17:15-16

And every soul which shall eat a carcass and torn in pieces among the native or the stranger, and he washed his garments and washed in water, and was unclean till the evening: and he was clean. And if he shall not wash his garments, and bathe not his flesh, and he shall bear his iniquity.

Deuteronomy 23:10-11

If there shall be in thee a man that shall not be clean from chance of the night, and he shall go forth without the camp; he shall not come in to the midst of the camp: And it was turning to evening, he shall wash in water: and as the sun went down he shall come into the midst of the camp.

2 Kings 5:10

And Elisha will send a messenger to him, saying, Go and wash seven times in Jordan and, thy flesh shall: turn back to thee and be clean.

1 Corinthians 6:9-11

Or know ye not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God Be ye not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites, Nor thieves; nor covetous, nor intoxicated, nor railers, nor rapacious, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And these were some of you: but ye were washed, but ye were consecrated, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

Ephesians 5:25-27

Husbands, love your own wives, as also Christ loved the church, and delivered himself up for it; That he might consecrate it, having cleansed by the washing of water in the word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing: but that it be holy and blameless.

Isaiah 4:4

When Jehovah washed out the excrements of the daughters of Zion, and he shall cleanse the blood of Jerusalem from her midst with the spirit of judgment, and with the spirit of burning.

Jeremiah 4:14

O Jerusalem, wash from evil to thy heart so that thou shalt be saved. How long shall purposes of thy vanity lodge in the midst of thee?

Exodus 19:10-11

And Jehovah will say to Moses, Go to the people and consecrate them this day, and the morrow; and they washed their garments, And be ye prepared for the third day, for in the third day Jehovah will come down before the eyes of all the people upon mount Sinai.

Exodus 29:4

And Aaron and his sons thou shalt bring near to the door of the tent of the appointment, and wash them in water.

Exodus 40:12-13

And bring near Aaron and his sons to the door of the tent of appointment and wash them in water. And put upon Aaron the garments of the holy place, and anoint him and consecrate him; and he was priest to me.

Leviticus 8:6

And Moses will bring near Aaron and his sons, and will wash them in water.

Numbers 8:6-7

Take the Levites from the midst of the sons of Israel, and cleanse them. And thus thou shalt do to them, to cleanse them: sprinkle upon them the water of sin, and they caused a razor to pass over upon all their flesh, and they washed their garments, and they were cleansed.

Deuteronomy 21:6-7

And all the old men of that city being near to him wounded, shall wash their hands over the heifer having her neck broken in the valley: And they answered and said, Our hands poured not out this blood, and our eyes saw not

Psalm 26:6

I will wash my hands in cleanness, and I will surround thine altar, O Jehovah:

Matthew 27:24

And Pilate, seeing that it profits nothing, but there is rather an uproar, having taken water, he washed his hands before the crowd, saying, I am guiltless of the blood of this just one: ye shall see yourselves.

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Washing » Of feet

Genesis 19:2

And he will say, Behold now, lords, turn aside now to the house of your servant, and pass the night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise early. and go forth to your ways. And they will say, Nay; for in the street we will pass the night

Genesis 24:32

And the man will come into the house and will loosen the camels, and give straw and fodder to the camels, and water to wash his feet, and the feet of the men which are with him.

Genesis 43:24

And the man will bring the men into Joseph's house, and will give water, and they will wash their feet; and he will give fodder to their asses.

2 Samuel 11:8

And David will say to Uriah, Go down to thy house and wash thy feet And Uriah will go forth from the house of the king and a loan of the king will go forth after him.

Washing » Ceremonial

Leviticus 16:28

And he burning them shall wash his clothes and wash his flesh in water, and after this he shall come in to the camp.

2 Chronicles 4:6

And he will make ten wash-basins, and give five from the right, and five from the left, to wash in them: the work of the burnt-offering they will cleanse in them; and the sea for the priests to wash in it

Leviticus 14:8

And he being cleansed, washed his garments and shaved all his hair, and washed in water and was clean: and afterwards he shall come into the camp and dwelt without his tent seven days.

Leviticus 6:27

Every one touching upon its flesh shall be consecrated: and when shall be sprinkled from its blood upon his garment, what shall be sprinkled upon it thou shalt wash in the holy place.

Leviticus 13:54

And the priest commanded, and they washed that in which was the stroke, and he shut it up seven days, the second time.

More verses: Numbers 31:24

Washing » Figurative » Of regeneration

Washing » Of hands

Deuteronomy 21:6

And all the old men of that city being near to him wounded, shall wash their hands over the heifer having her neck broken in the valley:

Psalm 26:6

I will wash my hands in cleanness, and I will surround thine altar, O Jehovah:

Matthew 27:24

And Pilate, seeing that it profits nothing, but there is rather an uproar, having taken water, he washed his hands before the crowd, saying, I am guiltless of the blood of this just one: ye shall see yourselves.

Washing » Of hands, a token of innocence

Deuteronomy 21:6

And all the old men of that city being near to him wounded, shall wash their hands over the heifer having her neck broken in the valley:

Psalm 26:6

I will wash my hands in cleanness, and I will surround thine altar, O Jehovah:

Matthew 27:24

And Pilate, seeing that it profits nothing, but there is rather an uproar, having taken water, he washed his hands before the crowd, saying, I am guiltless of the blood of this just one: ye shall see yourselves.

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Exodus 19:10-11

And Jehovah will say to Moses, Go to the people and consecrate them this day, and the morrow; and they washed their garments,

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