When Jacob heard that his daughter Dinah had been defiled, his sons were in the fields with his livestock; so he did nothing about it until they came home.

Because their sister Dinah had been defiled, Jacob’s sons replied deceitfully as they spoke to Shechem and his father Hamor.

The sons of Jacob came upon the dead bodies and looted the city where their sister had been defiled.

Turbulent as the waters, you will no longer excel, for you went up onto your father’s bed, onto my couch and defiled it.

If you make an altar of stones for me, do not build it with dressed stones, for you will defile it if you use a tool on it.

Do not defile yourselves by any of these creatures. Do not make yourselves unclean by means of them or be made unclean by them.

“‘Do not have sexual relations with your neighbor’s wife and defile yourself with her.

“‘Do not have sexual relations with an animal and defile yourself with it. A woman must not present herself to an animal to have sexual relations with it; that is a perversion.

“‘Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, because this is how the nations that I am going to drive out before you became defiled.

Even the land was defiled; so I punished it for its sin, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.

for all these things were done by the people who lived in the land before you, and the land became defiled.

And if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it vomited out the nations that were before you.

Keep my requirements and do not follow any of the detestable customs that were practiced before you came and do not defile yourselves with them. I am the Lord your God.’”

“‘Do not turn to mediums or seek out spiritists, for you will be defiled by them. I am the Lord your God.

I myself will set my face against him and will cut him off from his people; for by sacrificing his children to Molek, he has defiled my sanctuary and profaned my holy name.

“‘You must therefore make a distinction between clean and unclean animals and between unclean and clean birds. Do not defile yourselves by any animal or bird or anything that moves along the ground—those that I have set apart as unclean for you.

He must not make himself unclean for people related to him by marriage, and so defile himself.

“‘They must not marry women defiled by prostitution or divorced from their husbands, because priests are holy to their God.

“‘If a priest’s daughter defiles herself by becoming a prostitute, she disgraces her father; she must be burned in the fire.

He must not marry a widow, a divorced woman, or a woman defiled by prostitution, but only a virgin from his own people,

so that he will not defile his offspring among his people. I am the Lord, who makes him holy.’”

“‘If a descendant of Aaron has a defiling skin disease or a bodily discharge, he may not eat the sacred offerings until he is cleansed. He will also be unclean if he touches something defiled by a corpse or by anyone who has an emission of semen,

Send away male and female alike; send them outside the camp so they will not defile their camp, where I dwell among them.”

They must rededicate themselves to the Lord for the same period of dedication and must bring a year-old male lamb as a guilt offering. The previous days do not count, because they became defiled during their period of dedication.

By presenting the best part of it you will not be guilty in this matter; then you will not defile the holy offerings of the Israelites, and you will not die.’”