'Defile' in the Bible

‘Do not defile yourselves by any of these things; for by all these the nations which I am casting out before you have become defiled.

so that the land will not spew you out, should you defile it, as it has spewed out the nation which has been before you.

Thus you are to keep My charge, that you do not practice any of the abominable customs which have been practiced before you, so as not to defile yourselves with them; I am the Lord your God.’”

I will also set My face against that man and will cut him off from among his people, because he has given some of his offspring to Molech, so as to defile My sanctuary and to profane My holy name.

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them:‘No one shall defile himself for a dead person among his people,

also for his virgin sister, who is near to him because she has had no husband; for her he may defile himself.

He shall not defile himself as a relative by marriage among his people, and so profane himself.

nor shall he approach any dead person, nor defile himself even for his father or his mother;