Nave’s Topical Bible
Purification
47 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
(Sanitary and symbolical)
- For women
- Before marriage
- After childbirth
- After menstruation
- Of the Jews before the Passover celebration
- For those who had recently killed someone in battle
Of Levites, see below
- Of lepers
See LEPROSY
- By fire, for things that resist fire
- By blood
- By abstaining from sexual intercourse
- Washing parts of animal sacrifices in water
- Penalty to be imposed upon those who do not observe the Ordinances concerning
- Water of
- Washing hands in water, symbolical of innocency
- Traditions of the elders concerning
- Of Paul, to show his fidelity to the law
- FIGURATIVE
Psalms 26:6; Psalms 51:7; Ezekiel 36:25; Hebrews 10:22
See ABLUTION
See DEFILEMENT
See SANITATION
- SCRIPTURES RELATING TO
Genesis 35:2; Exodus 19:10,14; Exodus 29:4; Exodus 30:18-21; Exodus 40:12,30-32; Leviticus 8:6; Leviticus 14:8-9; Leviticus 15:4-13,16-27; Leviticus 16:4,24,26,28; Leviticus 17:15; Leviticus 22:3; Numbers 8:6-7,21; Numbers 19:7-8,19; 2 Chronicles 4:6; Matthew 15:2; Mark 7:2-9; Hebrews 9:10
Bible verses about “Purification”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- Esther 2:12Now when every maid’s turn was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after that she had been twelve months, according to the manner of the women, (for so were the days of their purifications accomplished, to wit, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odours, and with other things for the purifying of the women;)
- Leviticus 12:6And when the days of her purifying are fulfilled, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall bring a lamb of the first year for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtledove, for a sin offering, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, unto the priest:
- Leviticus 12:7Who shall offer it before the Lord, and make an atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed from the issue of her blood. This is the law for her that hath born a male or a female.
- Leviticus 12:8And if she be not able to bring a lamb, then she shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons; the one for the burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering: and the priest shall make an atonement for her, and she shall be clean.
- Luke 2:22And when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord;
- Leviticus 15:19And if a woman have an issue, and her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be put apart seven days: and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the even.
- Leviticus 15:20And every thing that she lieth upon in her separation shall be unclean: every thing also that she sitteth upon shall be unclean.
- Leviticus 15:21And whosoever toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
- Leviticus 15:22And whosoever toucheth any thing that she sat upon shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
- Leviticus 15:23And if it be on her bed, or on any thing whereon she sitteth, when he toucheth it, he shall be unclean until the even.
- Leviticus 15:24And if any man lie with her at all, and her flowers be upon him, he shall be unclean seven days; and all the bed whereon he lieth shall be unclean.
- Leviticus 15:25And if a woman have an issue of her blood many days out of the time of her separation, or if it run beyond the time of her separation; all the days of the issue of her uncleanness shall be as the days of her separation: she shall be unclean.
- Leviticus 15:26Every bed whereon she lieth all the days of her issue shall be unto her as the bed of her separation: and whatsoever she sitteth upon shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her separation.
- Leviticus 15:27And whosoever toucheth those things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
- Leviticus 15:28But if she be cleansed of her issue, then she shall number to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean.
- Leviticus 15:29And on the eighth day she shall take unto her two turtles, or two young pigeons, and bring them unto the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
- Leviticus 15:30And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for her before the Lord for the issue of her uncleanness.
- Leviticus 15:31Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness; that they die not in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is among them.
- Leviticus 15:32This is the law of him that hath an issue, and of him whose seed goeth from him, and is defiled therewith;
- Leviticus 15:33And of her that is sick of her flowers, and of him that hath an issue, of the man, and of the woman, and of him that lieth with her that is unclean.
- 2 Samuel 11:4And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, and he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness: and she returned unto her house.
- John 11:55And the Jews’ passover was nigh at hand: and many went out of the country up to Jerusalem before the passover, to purify themselves.
- Numbers 31:19And do ye abide without the camp seven days: whosoever hath killed any person, and whosoever hath touched any slain, purify both yourselves and your captives on the third day, and on the seventh day.
- Numbers 31:20And purify all your raiment, and all that is made of skins, and all work of goats’ hair, and all things made of wood.
- Numbers 31:21And Eleazar the priest said unto the men of war which went to the battle, This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord commanded Moses;
- Numbers 31:22Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,
- Numbers 31:23Every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make it go through the fire, and it shall be clean: nevertheless it shall be purified with the water of separation: and all that abideth not the fire ye shall make go through the water.
- Numbers 31:24And ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and ye shall be clean, and afterward ye shall come into the camp.
- Exodus 24:5And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the Lord.
- Exodus 24:6And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.
- Exodus 24:7And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the Lord hath said will we do, and be obedient.
- Exodus 24:8And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words.
- Leviticus 14:6As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water:
- Leviticus 14:7And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird loose into the open field.
- Hebrews 9:12Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
- Hebrews 9:13For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
- Hebrews 9:14How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
- Hebrews 9:19For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people,
- Hebrews 9:20Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.
- Hebrews 9:21Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry.