Commandments About Impurity
11 biblical commandments from the Torah related to impurity.
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Carry out the laws of impurity of the dead
Numbers 19:14
'This is the law when a man dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent and everyone who is in the tent shall be unclean for seven days.
The unclean person must not remove his signs of impurity
Deuteronomy 24:8
"Be careful against an infection of leprosy, that you diligently observe and do according to all that the Levitical priests teach you; as I have commanded them, so you shall be careful to do.
The leprous person must not shave signs of impurity in his hair
Leviticus 13:33
then he shall shave himself, but he shall not shave the scale; and the priest shall isolate the person with the scale seven more days.
Observe the laws of menstrual impurity
Leviticus 15:19
When a woman has a discharge, if her discharge in her body is blood, she shall continue in her menstrual impurity for seven days; and whoever touches her shall be unclean until evening.
Observe the laws of impurity caused by childbirth
Leviticus 12:2
"Speak to the sons of Israel, saying: 'When a woman gives birth and bears a male child, then she shall be unclean for seven days, as in the days of her menstruation she shall be unclean.
Observe the laws of impurity caused by a woman's running issue
Leviticus 15:25
'Now if a woman has a discharge of her blood many days, not at the period of her menstrual impurity, or if she has a discharge beyond that period, all the days of her impure discharge she shall continue as though in her menstrual impurity; she is unclean.
Observe the laws of impurity caused by a man's running issue
Leviticus 15:3
'This, moreover, shall be his uncleanness in his discharge: it is his uncleanness whether his body allows its discharge to flow or whether his body obstructs its discharge.
Observe the laws of impurity caused by a dead beast
Leviticus 11:39
'Also if one of the animals dies which you have for food, the one who touches its carcass becomes unclean until evening.
Observe the laws of impurity caused by the eight listed creatures
Leviticus 11:29
'Now these are to you the unclean among the swarming things which swarm on the earth: the mole, and the mouse, and the great lizard in its kinds,
Observe the laws of impurity of a seminal emission
Leviticus 15:16
'Now if a man has a seminal emission, he shall bathe all his body in water and be unclean until evening.
Observe the laws of impurity concerning liquid and solid foods
Leviticus 11:34
'Any of the food which may be eaten, on which water comes, shall become unclean, and any liquid which may be drunk in every vessel shall become unclean.