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Cleansing from sin or uncleanness, by means of ritual washing under the old covenant, but through the blood of Jesus Christ under the new covenant.

Purification from uncleanness

After contact with something unclean

Leviticus 11:39-40 See also Leviticus 15:1-12,19-23; Leviticus 17:15-16; Numbers 19:10-20

After disease

Leviticus 15:13-15 See also Leviticus 14:1-32

After childbirth and menstruation

Luke 2:22 See also Leviticus 12:1-8; 2 Samuel 11:2-4

Purification from sin

1 John 1:7 See also Numbers 19:1-9; Job 1:5; Hebrews 1:3; Hebrews 9:16-24; 1 John 1:9

Purification of people

Priests and Levites

Ezra 6:20 See also Exodus 30:18-21; Leviticus 16:24-28; Numbers 8:5-22; Numbers 19:7; 2 Chronicles 4:6; Nehemiah 12:30; Nehemiah 13:22,30

Lay people

Acts 21:24-26 See also Genesis 35:1-2; Numbers 19:20; Numbers 31:19; 2 Chronicles 30:13-20; Isaiah 66:17

Purification of inanimate objects

The temple

2 Chronicles 34:8 See also 2 Chronicles 29:15-19; Nehemiah 13:6-9; Ezekiel 45:18-20

Sacred objects

Exodus 29:36 See also Leviticus 8:15; 1 Chronicles 23:28

Other items

Leviticus 14:48-53 See also Numbers 31:19-24

Purification of precious metals

Psalm 12:6 See also Malachi 3:3

Purification of the inner person

2 Corinthians 7:1 See also Mark 7:2-8; Acts 15:5-11; Titus 2:11-14; James 4:8; 1 Peter 1:22; 1 John 3:3

See also

4303  metals
4351  refining
4826  fire
5226  basin
5297  disease
5390  leprosy
5715  menstruation
6020  sin
7340  clean and unclean
7342  cleanliness
7348  defilement
7390  Levites
7422  ritual
7426  ritual washing
7478  washing
7766  priests
7903  baptism
8266  holiness
8324  purity