Genesis 43:24
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24 The steward then brought the men inside Joseph’s house. He gave them water to wash their feet, and gave fodder to their donkeys.
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Leviticus 8:6
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6 Bringing forward Aaron and his sons, Moses first washed them with water.
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Leviticus 22:6
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6 the one who touches such as these shall be unclean until evening and may not eat of the sacred portions until he has first bathed his body in water.(A)
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Tobit 6:3
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3 When the young man went down to wash his feet in the Tigris River, a large fish leaped out of the water and tried to swallow his foot. He shouted in alarm.
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Ezekiel 16:4
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4 [a]As for your birth, on the day you were born your navel cord was not cut; you were not washed with water or anointed; you were not rubbed with salt or wrapped in swaddling clothes.(A)
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- 16:4–5 In this chapter, Ezekiel represents Jerusalem and Samaria as unwanted, abandoned sisters whom the Lord rescues and cares for. Here the prophet depicts Jerusalem as a newborn female, abandoned and left to die, an accepted practice in antiquity for females, who were considered financial liabilities by their families. That the infant has no one, not even her mother, to tie off her umbilical cord, wash her clean, and wrap her in swaddling clothes emphasizes Jerusalem’s death-like isolation and accentuates the Lord’s gracious action in her behalf. The practice of rubbing the skin of newborns with salt is an attested Palestinian custom that survived into the twentieth century.
Ezekiel 16:9
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9 Then I bathed you with water, washed away your blood, and anointed you with oil.(A)
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