Numbers 5:2
5:2 “Command the Israelites to expel
from the camp every leper,
everyone who has a discharge,
and whoever becomes defiled by a corpse.
Numbers 6:6-7
6:6 “‘All the days that he separates himself to the Lord he must not contact a dead body.
6:7 He must not defile himself even for his father or his mother or his brother or his sister if they die, because the separation for his God is on his head.
Numbers 19:11
Purification from Uncleanness
19:11 “‘Whoever touches the corpse of any person will be ceremonially unclean seven days.
Numbers 19:16
19:16 And whoever touches the body of someone killed with a sword in the open fields,
or the body of someone who died of natural causes,
or a human bone, or a grave, will be unclean seven days.
Numbers 19:18
19:18 Then a ceremonially clean person must take hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, on all its furnishings, and on the people who were there, or on the one who touched a bone, or one killed, or one who died, or a grave.
Leviticus 21:11
21:11 He must not go where there is any dead person;
he must not defile himself even for his father and his mother.
John 18:28
Jesus Brought Before Pilate
18:28 Then they brought Jesus from Caiaphas to the Roman governor’s residence. (Now it was very early morning.) They did not go into the governor’s residence so they would not be ceremonially defiled, but could eat the Passover meal.