You must not have sexual intercourse with the wife of your fellow citizen to become unclean with her.

Therefore the land has become unclean and I have brought the punishment for its iniquity upon it, so that the land has vomited out its inhabitants.

for the people who were in the land before you have done all these abominations, and the land has become unclean.

So do not make the land vomit you out because you defile it just as it has vomited out the nations that were before you.

and his virgin sister who is near to him, who has no husband; he may defile himself for her.

He must not go where there is any dead person; he must not defile himself even for his father and his mother.

But if the woman has not defiled herself, and is clean, then she will be free of ill effects and will be able to bear children.

“‘This is the law for cases of jealousy, when a wife, while under her husband’s authority, goes astray and defiles herself,

The one who burns it must wash his clothes in water and bathe himself in water. He will be ceremonially unclean until evening.

I will do these things to you because you engaged in prostitution with the nations, polluting yourself with their idols.

Moreover, they have done this to me: In the very same day they desecrated my sanctuary and profaned my Sabbaths.

You rely on your swords and commit abominable deeds; each of you defiles his neighbor’s wife. Will you possess the land?’

So I poured my anger on them because of the blood they shed on the land and because of the idols with which they defiled it.

I have seen a disgusting thing in the temple of Israel: there Ephraim practices temple prostitution and Judah defiles itself.

But you are the ones who will be forced to leave! For this land is not secure! Sin will thoroughly destroy it!

Also, anything they fall on when they die will become unclean – any wood vessel or garment or article of leather or sackcloth. Any such vessel with which work is done must be immersed in water and will be unclean until the evening. Then it will become clean.

and if jealous feelings come over him and he becomes suspicious of his wife, when she is defiled; or if jealous feelings come over him and he becomes suspicious of his wife, when she is not defiled –

But the man who is unclean and does not purify himself, that person must be cut off from among the community, because he has polluted the sanctuary of the Lord; the water of purification was not sprinkled on him, so he is unclean.

“‘They must not come near a dead person or they will be defiled; however, for father, mother, son, daughter, brother or sister, they may defile themselves.

When Jacob heard that Shechem had violated his daughter Dinah, his sons were with the livestock in the field. So Jacob remained silent until they came in.