'Ritually' in the Bible
(For the Pharisees, in fact all the Jews, will not eat unless they wash their hands ritually, keeping the tradition of the elders.
Then the Pharisees and the scribes asked Him, “Why don’t Your disciples live according to the tradition of the elders, instead of eating bread with ritually unclean hands?”
Now the Jewish feast of Passover was near, and many people went up to Jerusalem from the rural areas before the Passover to cleanse themselves ritually.
But Peter said, "Certainly not, Lord, for I have never eaten anything defiled and ritually unclean!"
The voice spoke to him again, a second time, "What God has made clean, you must not consider ritually unclean!"
He said to them, "You know that it is unlawful for a Jew to associate with or visit a Gentile, yet God has shown me that I should call no person defiled or ritually unclean.
But I said, 'Certainly not, Lord, for nothing defiled or ritually unclean has ever entered my mouth!'
But the voice replied a second time from heaven, 'What God has made clean, you must not consider ritually unclean!'
shouting, "Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against our people, our law, and this sanctuary! Furthermore he has brought Greeks into the inner courts of the temple and made this holy place ritually unclean!"
and while I was doing this, some Jews from Asia found me ritually purified in the temple, without a crowd and without any uproar.
but nothing ritually unclean will ever enter into it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or practices falsehood, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb's book of life.