Nehemiah 12:30
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30 And the priests and the Levites (A)purified themselves, and they purified the people and the gates and the wall.
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Job 1:5
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5 And when the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send and (A)consecrate them, and he would rise early in the morning and (B)offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my children have sinned, and (C)cursed[a] God in their hearts.” Thus Job did continually.
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Ezra 6:21
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21 It was eaten by the people of Israel who had returned from exile, and (A)also by every one who had joined them and separated himself (B)from the uncleanness of the peoples of the land to worship the Lord, the God of Israel.
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2 Chronicles 29:5
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5 and said to them, “Hear me, Levites! Now (A)consecrate yourselves, and consecrate the house of the Lord, the God of your fathers, and carry out the filth[a] from the Holy Place.
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- 2 Chronicles 29:5 Hebrew impurity
Exodus 19:10
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10 the Lord said to Moses, “Go to the people and (A)consecrate them today and tomorrow, and let them (B)wash their garments
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Hebrews 5:3
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3 Because of this he is obligated to offer sacrifice for his own sins (A)just as he does for those of the people.
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Hebrews 5:1
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5 For every high priest chosen from among men (A)is appointed to act on behalf of men (B)in relation to God, (C)to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins.
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Nehemiah 13:30
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30 (A)Thus I cleansed them from everything foreign, and I established the duties of the priests and Levites, each in his work;
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Nehemiah 13:22
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22 Then I commanded the Levites (A)that they should purify themselves and come and guard the gates, to keep the Sabbath day holy. (B)Remember this also in my favor, O my God, and spare me according to the greatness of your steadfast love.
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2 Chronicles 29:34
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34 But the priests were too few and could not flay all the burnt offerings, so until other priests had consecrated themselves, (A)their brothers the Levites helped them, until the work was finished—(B)for the Levites were more upright in heart than the priests in consecrating themselves.
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Numbers 19:2-20
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2 “This is the statute of the law that the Lord has commanded: Tell the people of Israel to bring you a red heifer without defect, in which there is no blemish, (A)and on which a yoke has never come. 3 And you shall give it to Eleazar the priest, and (B)it shall be taken outside the camp and slaughtered before him. 4 And Eleazar the priest shall take some of its blood with his finger, and (C)sprinkle some of its blood toward the front of the tent of meeting seven times. 5 And the heifer shall be burned in his sight. (D)Its skin, its flesh, and its blood, with its dung, shall be burned. 6 And the priest shall take (E)cedarwood and hyssop and scarlet yarn, and throw them into the fire burning the heifer. 7 Then the priest (F)shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward he may come into the camp. But the priest shall be unclean until evening. 8 (G)The one who burns the heifer (H)shall wash his clothes in water and bathe his body in water and shall be unclean until evening. 9 And a man who is clean shall gather up (I)the ashes of the heifer and deposit them outside the camp in a (J)clean place. And they shall be kept for the water for (K)impurity for the congregation of the people of Israel; it is a sin offering. 10 And the one who gathers the ashes of the heifer (L)shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening. And this shall be a perpetual statute for the people of Israel, and for the stranger who sojourns among them.
11 (M)“Whoever touches the dead body of any person shall be unclean seven days. 12 He (N)shall cleanse himself with the water on the third day and on the seventh day, and so be clean. But if he does not cleanse himself on the third day and on the seventh day, he will not become clean. 13 Whoever touches a dead person, the body of anyone who has died, and does not cleanse himself, (O)defiles the tabernacle of the Lord, (P)and that person shall be cut off from Israel; because the water for impurity was not thrown on him, he shall be unclean. His uncleanness is still on him.
14 “This is the law when someone dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent and everyone who is in the tent shall be unclean seven days. 15 And every (Q)open vessel that has no cover fastened on it is unclean. 16 (R)Whoever in the open field touches someone who was killed with a sword or who died naturally, or touches a human bone or a (S)grave, shall be unclean seven days. 17 For the unclean they shall take (T)some ashes of the burnt sin offering, and fresh[a] water shall be added in a vessel. 18 Then a clean person shall take (U)hyssop and dip it in the water and sprinkle it on the tent and on all the furnishings and on the persons who were there and on whoever touched the bone, or the slain or the dead or the grave. 19 And the clean person shall sprinkle it on the unclean (V)on the third day and on the seventh day. (W)Thus on the seventh day he shall cleanse him, and he shall (X)wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and at evening he shall be clean.
20 “If the man who is unclean does not cleanse himself, (Y)that person shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, since he has defiled the sanctuary of the Lord. Because the water for impurity has not been thrown on him, he is unclean.
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- Numbers 19:17 Hebrew living
Exodus 19:15
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15 And he said to the people, “Be ready for the (A)third day; (B)do not go near a woman.”
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Genesis 35:2
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2 So Jacob said to his (A)household and to all who were with him, “Put away (B)the foreign gods that are among you and (C)purify yourselves and change your garments.
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