Dictionary entry

Defilement

R. A. Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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