Leviticus 11:25

And whosoever beareth ought of the carcase of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even.

Cross-references

Leviticus 11:28 repeats the same washing-clothes requirement for animals that walk on paws, reinforcing the purity rule.

Leviticus 11:40 extends the washing rule to eating or carrying a carcass, broadening the scope.

Leviticus 11:31 applies the same rule of uncleanness until evening to touching dead creeping things—identical legal principle.

Leviticus 15:5 prescribes identical washing and uncleanness until evening for touching a discharge bed.

Leviticus 15:7-11 repeatedly mandate washing clothes and uncleanness until evening for various discharge contacts.

Leviticus 17:15 prescribes washing clothes (plus bathing) for eating carrion—very similar ritual purification principle.

In Leviticus 22:6, the same rule applies: touching any unclean carcass requires washing and waiting until evening to eat holy things.

Leviticus 14:8 includes washing clothes in the cleansing ritual for lepers, a parallel purification practice.

Leviticus 14:46 also declares uncleanness until evening from entering a leprous house, but without the washing requirement.

Leviticus 15:13 requires washing clothes after a discharge ends, with a seven-day count, similar but with added time.

Leviticus 16:28 requires washing clothes after burning sin offerings, a related purification ritual.

Psalm 51:7 Allusion

Psalm 51:7 invokes ritual purification with hyssop and washing, directly echoing the laws that require washing after contact with impurity.

Hebrews 9:10 explicitly includes such ceremonial washings among the 'carnal ordinances' that were temporary until Christ.

Numbers 19:21 reinforces the rule: the sprinkler washes his clothes, and whoever touches the water is unclean until evening.

Hebrews 10:22 uses washing as a metaphor for inward cleansing through Christ, contrasting with the physical ritual here.

Numbers 19:10 repeats the same formula for the one who gathers the heifer's ashes: wash clothes, unclean until evening.

Numbers 19:8 uses the same ritual language: washing clothes and uncleanness until evening, here for the one who burns the red heifer.

1 Peter 3:21 directly contrasts baptism with 'putting away the filth of the flesh'—the external washing of Levitical law.

Revelation 7:14 uses washing robes in blood as a metaphor for salvation, contrasting with physical washing from dead animals.

Acts 22:16 Contrast

Acts 22:16 uses washing language for baptism that forgives sins, contrasting with the external ritual washing here for ceremonial impurity.

Numbers 19:7 shows a similar purification ritual: washing clothes and being unclean until evening after handling the red heifer.

Deuteronomy 23:11 applies the same evening-washing principle to nocturnal emissions, extending the uncleanness concept.

Numbers 19:22 Related theme

Numbers 19:22 extends the uncleanness: anyone touching an unclean person is also unclean until evening, same time frame.

Numbers 19:19 describes purification on day seven: wash clothes and bathe, then at evening he is clean — mirroring the unclean-until-evening pattern.

Numbers 31:24 Related theme

Numbers 31:24 commands washing clothes on the seventh day after battle — a ritual purification similar to the carcass-contact rule.

Exodus 19:10 Related theme

Exodus 19:10 commands washing garments as part of consecration before meeting God, a similar ceremonial wash.

Exodus 19:14 Related theme

Exodus 19:14 records the people washing garments in obedience to consecration, echoing the same washing practice.