6 Bible Verses about Defilement, Ceremonial Causes

Therefore you must distinguish the clean animal from the unclean one, and the unclean bird from the clean one. Do not become contaminated by any land animal, bird, or whatever crawls on the ground; I have set these apart as unclean for you.

“By presenting defiled food on My altar.”

You ask: “How have we defiled You?”

When you say: “The Lord’s table is contemptible.”

Daniel determined that he would not defile himself with the king’s food or with the wine he drank. So he asked permission from the chief official not to defile himself.

“Tell the Israelites: When a woman becomes pregnant and gives birth to a male child, she will be unclean seven days, as she is during the days of her menstrual impurity.

If you make a stone altar for Me, you must not build it out of cut stones. If you use your chisel on it, you will defile it.

Do not make the land unclean where you live and where I reside; for I, Yahweh, reside among the Israelites.”