When you go out as an army against your enemies, guard yourselves against anything impure. ¹ 

Joshua told the people, “Ritually consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will perform miraculous deeds among you.”

But Peter said, “Certainly not, Lord, for I have never eaten anything defiled and ritually unclean!” ¹ 

The voice ¹  spoke to him again, a second time, “What God has made clean, you must not consider ²  ritually unclean!” ³ 

But I said, ‘Certainly not, Lord, for nothing defiled or ritually unclean ¹  has ever entered my mouth!’

But the voice replied a second time from heaven, ‘What God has made clean, you must not consider ¹  ritually unclean!’

These are the ones that are unclean to you among all the swarming things. Anyone who touches them when they die will be unclean until evening.

However, a spring or a cistern which collects water ¹  will be clean, but one who touches their carcass will be unclean.

“‘Now if an animal ¹  that you may eat dies, ²  whoever touches its carcass will be unclean until the evening.

to distinguish between the unclean and the clean, between the living creatures that may be eaten and the living creatures that must not be eaten.’”

The whole time he has the infection ¹  he will be continually unclean. He must live in isolation, and his place of residence must be outside the camp.

“‘Any bed the man with a discharge lies on will be unclean, ¹  and any furniture he sits on will be unclean. ² 

If what is vowed is an unclean animal from which an offering must not be presented to the Lord, then he must stand the animal before the priest,

And whatever first ripe fruit in their land they bring to the Lord will be yours; everyone who is ceremonially clean in your household may eat of it.

And whatever the unclean person touches will be unclean, and the person who touches it will be unclean until evening.’”

You must wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you will be ceremonially clean, and afterward you may enter the camp.’”

They ¹  searched for their records in the genealogical materials, but did not find them. ²  They were therefore excluded ³  from the priesthood.

They searched for their records in the genealogical materials, but none were found. They were therefore excluded ¹  from the priesthood.

They will not remain in the Lord’s land. Ephraim will return to Egypt; they will eat ritually unclean food in Assyria.

Now the Jewish feast of Passover ¹  was near, and many people went up to Jerusalem ²  from the rural areas before the Passover to cleanse themselves ritually. ³