So they yelled louder and, in accordance with their prescribed ritual, ¹  mutilated themselves with swords and spears until their bodies were covered with blood. ² 

The priests and the Levites had purified themselves, every last one, ¹  and they all were ceremonially pure. They sacrificed the Passover lamb for all the exiles, for their colleagues ²  the priests, and for themselves.

(For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they perform a ritual washing, ¹  holding fast to the tradition of the elders.

which I was doing when they found me in the temple, ritually purified, ¹  without a crowd or a disturbance. ² 

They served only for matters of food and drink ¹  and various washings; they are external regulations ²  imposed until the new order came. ³ 

“‘This is the law of the grain offering. The sons of Aaron are to present it ¹  before the Lord in front of the altar,

“‘By these ¹  you defile yourselves; anyone who touches their 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.’”

“This is the law of the diseased person on the day of his purification, when ¹  he is brought to the priest. ² 

This is the law of the one in whom there is a diseased infection, ¹  who does not have sufficient means for his purification.” ² 

to teach when something is unclean and when it is clean. ¹  This is the law for dealing with infectious disease.” ² 

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

This is the law of the one with a discharge: the one who has a seminal emission ¹  and becomes unclean by it, ² 

and his virgin sister who is near to him, ¹  who has no husband; he may defile himself for her.

“‘Whoever touches ¹  the corpse ²  of any person ³  will be ceremonially unclean ⁴  seven days.

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.’”

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

There must never be a sacred prostitute ¹  among the young women ²  of Israel nor a sacred male prostitute ³  among the young men ⁴  of Israel.

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