Numbers 19:22
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22 Whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean, and anyone who touches it shall be unclean until evening.”(A)
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Haggai 2:13
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13 Then Haggai said, “If one who is unclean by contact with a dead body touches any of these, does it become unclean?” The priests answered, “Yes, it becomes unclean.”(A)
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Leviticus 7:19
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19 “Flesh that touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten; it shall be burned up. As for other flesh, all who are clean may eat such flesh.
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Mark 7:21-23
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21 For it is from within, from the human heart, that evil intentions come: sexual immorality, theft, murder, 22 adultery, avarice, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, pride, folly. 23 All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”
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Matthew 15:19-20
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19 For out of the heart come evil intentions, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.(A) 20 These are what defile a person, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile.”
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Leviticus 15:5
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5 Anyone who touches his bed shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until the evening.
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Leviticus 5:2
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2 Or when any of you touch any unclean thing, whether the carcass of an unclean beast or the carcass of unclean livestock or the carcass of an unclean swarming thing, and are unaware of it, you have become unclean and are guilty.(A)
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