Treasury of Scripture
Thus shall
Leviticus 11:47 To make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the beast that may be eaten and the beast that may not be eaten.
Leviticus 13:59 This is the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment of woolen or linen, either in the warp, or woof, or any thing of skins...
Numbers 5:3 Both male and female shall you put out, without the camp shall you put them; that they defile not their camps...
Deuteronomy 24:8 Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that you observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you...
Psalm 66:18 If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:
Ezekiel 44:23 And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean...
Hebrews 10:29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose you, shall he be thought worthy, who has trodden under foot the Son of God...
Hebrews 12:14,15 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord...
Jude 1:4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men...
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Leviticus 19:30 You shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.
Leviticus 21:23 Only he shall not go in to the veil, nor come near to the altar, because he has a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries...
Numbers 5:3 Both male and female shall you put out, without the camp shall you put them; that they defile not their camps...
Numbers 19:13,20 Whoever touches the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifies not himself, defiles the tabernacle of the LORD...
Ezekiel 5:11 Why, as I live, said the Lord GOD; Surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things...
Ezekiel 23:38 Moreover this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths.
Ezekiel 44:5-7 And the LORD said to me, Son of man, mark well, and behold with your eyes...
Daniel 9:27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week...
1 Corinthians 3:17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.
These laws were principally intended to impress the minds of the Israelites with reverence for the sanctuary; and, on the one hand, to shew them what need they had of circumspection, and purity of heart and life, in order to worship the holy God with acceptance; and, on the other hand, that being sinners in a world full of temptations and defilements, they would continually need forgiveness, through the great atonement typified by all the sacrifices, and the sanctification of the Spirit, showed forth by all the purifications. While they were encamped in the desert, it would not be very burdensome to bring the prescribed oblations; but after they were settled in Canaan, many of them at a great distance from the tabernacle, this would become much more difficult. We may, however, observe, continues Mr. Scott, that many of the cases stated only required such washings as might any where be performed, and that those, respecting which sacrifices were appointed, would more rarely occur. We may also suppose, that provided these were brought, when the person who had been unclean first came to the sanctuary, it would suffice: though distance or other hindrances prevented its being done immediately, at the expiration of the seven days.
