Concordance

“Unclean” in the Bible

171 verses contain “unclean” (including word forms) in the Berean Standard Bible — the first 150 are listed below.

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Genesis 7:2 You are to take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate; a pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate;
Genesis 7:8 The clean and unclean animals, the birds, and everything that crawls along the ground
Leviticus 5:2 Or if a person touches anything unclean—whether the carcass of any unclean wild animal or livestock or crawling creature—even if he is unaware of it, he is unclean and…
Leviticus 5:3 Or if he touches human uncleanness—anything by which one becomes unclean—even if he is unaware of it, when he realizes it, he is guilty.
Leviticus 7:19 Meat that touches anything unclean must not be eaten; it is to be burned up. As for any other meat, anyone who is ceremonially clean may eat it.
Leviticus 7:20 But if anyone who is unclean eats meat from the peace offering that belongs to the LORD, that person must be cut off from his people.
Leviticus 7:21 If one touches anything unclean, whether human uncleanness, an unclean animal, or any unclean, detestable thing, and then eats any of the meat of the peace offering that…
Leviticus 10:10 You must distinguish between the holy and the common, between the clean and the unclean,
Leviticus 11:4 …hough it chews the cud, does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean for…
Leviticus 11:5 The rock badger, though it chews the cud, does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean for you.
Leviticus 11:6 The rabbit, though it chews the cud, does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean for you.
Leviticus 11:7 And the pig, though it has a split hoof completely divided, does not chew the cud; it is unclean for you.
Leviticus 11:8 You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses; they are unclean for you.
Leviticus 11:24 These creatures will make you unclean. Whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean until evening,
Leviticus 11:25 and whoever picks up one of their carcasses must wash his clothes, and he will be unclean until evening.
Leviticus 11:26 Every animal with hooves not completely divided or that does not chew the cud is unclean for you. Whoever touches any of them will be unclean.
Leviticus 11:27 All the four-footed animals that walk on their paws are unclean for you; whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean until evening,
Leviticus 11:28 and anyone who picks up a carcass must wash his clothes, and he will be unclean until evening. They are unclean for you.
Leviticus 11:29 The following creatures that move along the ground are unclean for you: the mole, the mouse, any kind of great lizard,
Leviticus 11:31 These animals are unclean for you among all the crawling creatures. Whoever touches them when they are dead shall be unclean until evening.
Leviticus 11:32 …e of them dies and falls on something, that article becomes unclean; any article of wood, clothing, leather, sackcloth, or any implement used for work must be rinsed…
Leviticus 11:33 If any of them falls into a clay pot, everything in it will be unclean; you must break the pot.
Leviticus 11:34 Any food coming into contact with water from that pot will be unclean, and any drink in such a container will be unclean.
Leviticus 11:35 Anything upon which one of their carcasses falls will be unclean. If it is an oven or cooking pot, it must be smashed; it is unclean and will remain unclean for you.
Leviticus 11:36 Nevertheless, a spring or cistern containing water will remain clean, but one who touches a carcass in it will be unclean.
Leviticus 11:38 but if water has been put on the seed and a carcass falls on it, it is unclean for you.
Leviticus 11:39 If an animal that you may eat dies, anyone who touches the carcass will be unclean until evening.
Leviticus 11:40 …ver eats from the carcass must wash his clothes and will be unclean until evening, and anyone who picks up the carcass must wash his clothes and will be unclean until…
Leviticus 11:43 Do not defile yourselves by any crawling creature; do not become unclean or defiled by them.
Leviticus 11:47 You must distinguish between the unclean and the clean, between animals that may be eaten and those that may not.’”
Leviticus 12:2 “Say to the Israelites, ‘A woman who becomes pregnant and gives birth to a son will be unclean for seven days, as she is during the days of her menstruation.
Leviticus 12:5 …, however, she gives birth to a daughter, the woman will be unclean for two weeks as she is during her menstruation. Then she must continue in purification from her…
Leviticus 13:3 …sease. After the priest examines him, he must pronounce him…
Leviticus 13:8 The priest will reexamine him, and if the rash has spread on the skin, the priest must pronounce him unclean; he has a skin disease.
Leviticus 13:11 it is a chronic skin disease and the priest must pronounce him unclean. He need not isolate him, for he is unclean.
Leviticus 13:14 But whenever raw flesh appears on someone, he will be unclean.
Leviticus 13:15 When the priest sees the raw flesh, he must pronounce him unclean. The raw flesh is unclean; it is a skin disease.
Leviticus 13:20 …hair in it has turned white, the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is a diseased infection that has broken out in the…
Leviticus 13:22 If it spreads any further on the skin, the priest must pronounce him unclean; it is an infection.
Leviticus 13:25 …t has broken out in the burn. The priest must pronounce him unclean; it is a diseased…
Leviticus 13:27 On the seventh day the priest is to reexamine him, and if it has spread further on the skin, the priest must pronounce him unclean; it is a diseased infection.
Leviticus 13:30 …air in it is yellow and thin, the priest must pronounce him unclean; it is a scaly outbreak, an infectious disease of the head or…
Leviticus 13:36 the priest is to examine him, and if the scaly outbreak has spread on the skin, the priest need not look for yellow hair; the person is unclean.
Leviticus 13:44 the man is diseased; he is unclean. The priest must pronounce him unclean because of the infection on his head.
Leviticus 13:45 A diseased person must wear torn clothes and let his hair hang loose, and he must cover his mouth and cry out, ‘Unclean, unclean!’
Leviticus 13:46 As long as he has the infection, he remains unclean. He must live alone in a place outside the camp.
Leviticus 13:51 …s of how it is used, it is a harmful mildew; the article is…
Leviticus 13:55 …f the mildewed article has not changed in appearance, it is unclean. Even though the mildew has not spread, you must burn it, whether the rot is on the front or…
Leviticus 13:59 This is the law concerning a mildew contamination in wool or linen fabric, weave, or knit, or any leather article, for pronouncing it clean or unclean.”
Leviticus 14:36 …xamine the mildew, so that nothing in the house will become unclean. After this, the priest shall go in to inspect the…
Leviticus 14:40 he must order that the contaminated stones be pulled out and thrown into an unclean place outside the city.
Leviticus 14:41 And he shall have the inside of the house scraped completely and the plaster that is scraped off dumped into an unclean place outside the city.
Leviticus 14:44 the priest must come and inspect it. If the mildew has spread in the house, it is a destructive mildew; the house is unclean.
Leviticus 14:45 It must be torn down with its stones, its timbers, and all its plaster, and taken outside the city to an unclean place.
Leviticus 14:46 Anyone who enters the house during any of the days that it is closed up will be unclean until evening.
Leviticus 14:57 to determine when something is clean or unclean. This is the law regarding skin diseases and mildew.”
Leviticus 15:2 “Say to the Israelites, ‘When any man has a bodily discharge, the discharge is unclean.
Leviticus 15:4 Any bed on which the man with the discharge lies will be unclean, and any furniture on which he sits will be unclean.
Leviticus 15:5 Anyone who touches his bed must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.
Leviticus 15:6 Whoever sits on furniture on which the man with the discharge was sitting must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.
Leviticus 15:7 Whoever touches the body of the man with a discharge must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.
Leviticus 15:8 If the man with the discharge spits on one who is clean, that person must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.
Leviticus 15:9 Any saddle on which the man with the discharge rides will be unclean.
Leviticus 15:10 Whoever touches anything that was under him will be unclean until evening, and whoever carries such things must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be…
Leviticus 15:11 … must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until…
Leviticus 15:16 When a man has an emission of semen, he must bathe his whole body with water, and he will be unclean until evening.
Leviticus 15:17 Any clothing or leather on which there is an emission of semen must be washed with water, and it will remain unclean until evening.
Leviticus 15:18 If a man lies with a woman and there is an emission of semen, both must bathe with water, and they will remain unclean until evening.
Leviticus 15:19 … a discharge consisting of blood from her body, she will be unclean due to her menstruation for seven days, and anyone who touches her will be unclean until…
Leviticus 15:20 Anything on which she lies or sits during her menstruation will be unclean,
Leviticus 15:21 and anyone who touches her bed must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.
Leviticus 15:22 Whoever touches any furniture on which she was sitting must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.
Leviticus 15:23 And whether it is a bed or furniture on which she was sitting, whoever touches it will be unclean until evening.
Leviticus 15:24 If a man lies with her and her menstrual flow touches him, he will be unclean for seven days, and any bed on which he lies will become unclean.
Leviticus 15:25 …l period, or if it continues beyond her period, she will be unclean all the days of her unclean discharge, just as she is during the days of her…
Leviticus 15:26 Any bed on which she lies or any furniture on which she sits during the days of her discharge will be unclean, like her bed during her menstrual period.
Leviticus 15:27 Anyone who touches these things will be unclean; he must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.
Leviticus 15:30 … priest will make atonement for her before the LORD for her unclean…
Leviticus 15:32 This is the law of him who has a discharge, of the man who has an emission of semen whereby he is unclean,
Leviticus 15:33 of a woman in her menstrual period, of any male or female who has a discharge, and of a man who lies with an unclean woman.’”
Leviticus 17:15 … must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening; then he will be…
Leviticus 20:25 You are therefore to distinguish between clean and unclean animals and birds. Do not become contaminated by any animal or bird, or by anything that crawls on the ground;…
Leviticus 22:5 or whoever touches a crawling creature or a person that makes him unclean, whatever the uncleanness may be—
Leviticus 22:6 the man who touches any of these will remain unclean until evening. He must not eat from the sacred offerings unless he has bathed himself with water.
Leviticus 22:8 He must not eat anything found dead or torn by wild animals, which would make him unclean. I am the LORD.
Leviticus 27:11 But if the vow involves any of the unclean animals that may not be brought as an offering to the LORD, the animal must be presented before the priest.
Leviticus 27:27 But if it is among the unclean animals, then he may redeem it according to your valuation and add a fifth of its value. If it is not redeemed, then it shall be sold…
Numbers 9:6 But there were some men who were unclean due to a dead body, so they could not observe the Passover on that day. And they came before Moses and Aaron that same day
Numbers 9:7 and said to Moses, “We are unclean because of a dead body, but why should we be excluded from presenting the LORD’s offering with the other Israelites at the appointed…
Numbers 9:10 “Tell the Israelites: ‘When any one of you or your descendants is unclean because of a dead body, or is away on a journey, he may still observe the Passover to the LORD.
Numbers 18:15 …rely redeem every firstborn son and every firstborn male of unclean…
Numbers 19:7 Then the priest must wash his clothes and bathe his body in water; after that he may enter the camp, but he will be ceremonially unclean until evening.
Numbers 19:8 The one who burned the heifer must also wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and he too will be ceremonially unclean until evening.
Numbers 19:10 …fer must also wash his clothes, and he will be ceremonially unclean until evening. This is a permanent statute for the Israelites and for the foreigner residing among…
Numbers 19:11 Whoever touches any dead body will be unclean for seven days.
Numbers 19:13 …e LORD. That person must be cut off from Israel. He remains unclean, because the water of purification has not been sprinkled on him, and his uncleanness is still on…
Numbers 19:14 This is the law when a person dies in a tent: Everyone who enters the tent and everyone already in the tent will be unclean for seven days,
Numbers 19:15 and any open container without a lid fastened on it is unclean.
Numbers 19:16 …ses, or anyone who touches a human bone or a grave, will be unclean for seven…
Numbers 19:17 For the purification of the unclean person, take some of the ashes of the burnt sin offering, put them in a jar, and pour fresh water over them.
Numbers 19:19 The man who is ceremonially clean is to sprinkle the unclean person on the third day and on the seventh day. After he purifies the unclean person on the seventh day, the…
Numbers 19:20 But if a person who is unclean does not purify himself, he will be cut off from the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD. The water of purification…
Numbers 19:21 …thes, and whoever touches the water of purification will be unclean until…
Numbers 19:22 Anything the unclean person touches will become unclean, and anyone who touches it will be unclean until evening.”
Deuteronomy 12:15 …ORD your God has given you. Both the ceremonially clean and unclean may eat it as they would a gazelle or…
Deuteronomy 12:22 Indeed, you may eat it as you would eat a gazelle or deer; both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat it.
Deuteronomy 14:8 …hey chew the cud, they do not have a divided hoof. They are unclean for you, as well as the pig; though it has a divided hoof, it does not chew the cud. It is unclean…
Deuteronomy 14:10 but you may not eat anything that does not have fins and scales; it is unclean for you.
Deuteronomy 14:19 All flying insects are unclean for you; they may not be eaten.
Deuteronomy 15:22 Eat it within your gates; both the ceremonially unclean and clean may eat it as they would a gazelle or a deer.
Deuteronomy 23:10 If any man among you becomes unclean because of a nocturnal emission, he must leave the camp and stay outside.
Deuteronomy 23:14 …nemies to you. Your camp must be holy, lest He see anything unclean among you and turn away from…
Deuteronomy 26:14 …acred portion while in mourning, or removed any of it while unclean, or offered any of it for the dead. I have obeyed the LORD my God; I have done everything You…
Joshua 22:19 If indeed the land of your inheritance is unclean, then cross over to the land of the LORD’s possession, where the LORD’s tabernacle stands, and take possession of it…
Judges 13:4 Now please be careful not to drink wine or strong drink, and not to eat anything unclean.
Judges 13:7 … do not drink wine or strong drink, and do not eat anything unclean, because the boy will be a Nazirite to God from the womb until the day of his…
Judges 13:14 She must not eat anything that comes from the vine, nor drink any wine or strong drink, nor eat anything unclean. She must do everything I have commanded her.”
1 Samuel 20:26 Saul said nothing that day because he thought, “Something has happened to David to make him ceremonially unclean—surely he is unclean.”
2 Chronicles 23:19 He stationed gatekeepers at the gates of the house of the LORD, so that nothing unclean could enter for any reason.
2 Chronicles 29:16 …o cleanse it, and they brought out to the courtyard all the unclean things that they found in the temple of the LORD. Then the Levites took these things and carried them…
2 Chronicles 30:17 …were in charge of slaughtering the Passover lambs for every unclean person to consecrate the lambs to the…
Ezra 2:62 These men searched for their family records, but they could not find them and so were excluded from the priesthood as unclean.
Nehemiah 7:64 These men searched for their family records, but they could not find them and so were excluded from the priesthood as unclean.
Job 14:4 Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one!
Ecclesiastes 9:2 …the wicked, for the good and the bad, for the clean and the unclean, for the one who sacrifices and the one who does not. As it is for the good, so it is for the sinner;…
Isaiah 6:5 Then I said: “Woe is me, for I am ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips dwelling among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Hosts.”
Isaiah 35:8 And there will be a highway called the Way of Holiness. The unclean will not travel it— only those who walk in the Way— and fools will not stray onto it.
Isaiah 52:1 Awake, awake, clothe yourself with strength, O Zion! Put on your garments of splendor, O Jerusalem, holy city! For the uncircumcised and unclean will no longer enter you.
Isaiah 52:11 Depart, depart, go out from there! Touch no unclean thing; come out from it, purify yourselves, you who carry the vessels of the LORD.
Isaiah 64:6 Each of us has become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.
Jeremiah 13:27 …ble acts. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will you remain…
Lamentations 1:17 …that his neighbors become his foes. Jerusalem has become an unclean thing among…
Lamentations 4:15 “Go away! Unclean!” men shouted at them. “Away, away! Do not touch us!” So they fled and wandered. Among the nations it was said, “They can stay here no longer.”
Ezekiel 4:14 … not eaten anything found dead or mauled by wild beasts. No unclean meat has ever entered my…
Ezekiel 7:19 …row their silver into the streets, and their gold will seem unclean. Their silver and gold cannot save them in the day of the wrath of the LORD. They cannot satisfy…
Ezekiel 7:20 …etestable idols. Therefore I will make these into something unclean for…
Ezekiel 20:26 And I pronounced them unclean through their gifts—the sacrifice of every firstborn in the fire—so that I might devastate them, in order that they would know that I am…
Ezekiel 22:26 …mon, and they fail to distinguish between the clean and the unclean. They disregard My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among…
Ezekiel 44:23 They are to teach My people the difference between the holy and the common, and show them how to discern between the clean and the unclean.
Hosea 9:3 They will not remain in the land of the LORD; Ephraim will return to Egypt and eat unclean food in Assyria.
Matthew 10:1 And calling His twelve disciples to Him, Jesus gave them authority over unclean spirits, so that they could drive them out and heal every disease and sickness.
Matthew 12:43 When an unclean spirit comes out of a man, it passes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it.
Mark 1:23 Suddenly a man with an unclean spirit cried out in the synagogue:
Mark 1:26 At this, the unclean spirit threw the man into convulsions and came out with a loud shriek.
Mark 1:27 All the people were amazed and began to ask one another, “What is this? A new teaching with authority! He commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey Him!”
Mark 3:11 And when the unclean spirits saw Him, they fell down before Him and cried out, “You are the Son of God!”
Mark 3:30 Jesus made this statement because they were saying, “He has an unclean spirit.”
Mark 5:2 As soon as Jesus got out of the boat, He was met by a man with an unclean spirit, who was coming from the tombs.
Mark 5:8 For Jesus had already declared, “Come out of this man, you unclean spirit!”
Mark 5:13 He gave them permission, and the unclean spirits came out and went into the pigs, and the herd of about two thousand rushed down the steep bank into the sea and drowned…

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