'Ceremonial' in the Bible

and they had seen that some of His disciples ate their bread with [ceremonially] impure hands, that is, unwashed [and defiled according to Jewish religious ritual].

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

since it does not enter his heart, but [only] his stomach, and [from there it] is eliminated?” (By this, He declared all foods ceremonially clean.)

Now there were six stone water jars there for Jewish ceremonial washing, each holding twenty or thirty gallons.

Now a dispute came about between some of John's disciples and a certain Jew concerning ceremonial washing.

or of teaching about ceremonial washings, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and the last judgement.

For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have contracted defilement make them holy so as to bring about ceremonial purity,