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Defilement

 

Defilement

Forbidden to the Jews - Le 11:44,45

THINGS LIABLE TO CEREMONIAL

• The person
- Le 5:3
• Garments
- Le 13:59
• Furniture, &c
- Le 15:9,10; Nu 19:14,15
• Houses
- Le 14:44
• The land
- Le 18:25; De 21:23
• The sanctuary
- Le 20:3; Zep 3:4

CEREMONIAL CAUSED BY

• Eating unclean things
- Le 11:8; Ac 10:11,14
• Eating things that died
- Le 17:15
• Touching a dead body or a bone
- Nu 9:6,7; 19:11,16
• Touching a grave
- Nu 19:16
• Touching a dead beast
- Le 5:2; 11:24-28
• Being alone with a dead body
- Nu 19:14
• Mourning for the dead
- Le 21:1-3
• Having a leprosy
- Le 13:3,11; Nu 5:2,3
• Having an issue, &c
- Le 15:2; Nu 5:2
• Touching anything defiled by an issue, &c
- Le 15:5-11
• Going into a leprous house
- Le 14:46
• Sacrificing the red heifer
- Nu 19:7
• Burning the red heifer
- Nu 19:8
• Gathering the ashes of the red heifer
- Nu 19:10
• Touching an unclean person
- Nu 19:22
• Child bearing
- Le 12:2

Causes of, improperly enlarged by tradition - Mr 7:2; Mt 15:20

MORAL, CAUSED BY

• Following the sins of the heathen
- Le 18:24
• Seeking after wizards
- Le 19:31
• Giving children to Molech
- Le 20:3
• Making and serving idols
- Eze 20:17,18; 22:3,4; 23:7
• Blood shedding
- Isa 59:3

Moral, punished - Le 18:24,25,28,29

Those under, removed from the camp - Nu 5:3,4; De 23:14

PRIESTS

• To decide in all cases of
- Le 10:10; 13:3
• Specially required to avoid
- Le 21:1-6,11,12
• Not to eat holy things while under
- Le 22:2,4-6
• Punished for eating of the holy things while under
- Le 22:3

Cleansed by legal offerings - Nu 19:18,19; Heb 9:13

Neglecting purification from, punished by cutting off - Nu 19:13,20

Ceremonial, abolished under the gospel - Ac 10:15; Ro 14:14; Col 2:20-22

ILLUSTRATIVE

• Of sin
- Mt 15:11,18; Jude 1:8
• Of unholy doctrines
- 1Co 3:16,17
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