'Defiling' in the Bible

“You must keep the Israelites from their uncleanness, so that they do not die by defiling My tabernacle that is among them.

You are not to have sexual intercourse with your neighbor’s wife, defiling yourself with her.

You are not to have sexual intercourse with any animal, defiling yourself with it; a woman is not to present herself to an animal to mate with it; it is a perversion.

I will turn against that man and cut him off from his people, because he gave his offspring to Molech, defiling My sanctuary and profaning My holy name.

“If someone suddenly dies near him, defiling his consecrated head of hair, he must shave his head on the day of his purification; he is to shave it on the seventh day.

I told him that I am going to judge his family forever because of the iniquity he knows about: his sons are defiling the sanctuary, and he has not stopped them.

Remember them, my God, for defiling the priesthood as well as the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites.

“Therefore say to the house of Israel: This is what the Lord God says: Are you defiling yourselves the way your fathers did, and prostituting yourselves with their detestable things?

These things will be done to you because you acted like a prostitute with the nations, defiling yourself with their idols.

Whenever they placed their threshold next to My threshold and their doorposts beside My doorposts, with only a wall between Me and them, they were defiling My holy name by the detestable acts they committed. So I destroyed them in My anger.