DEFILEMENT

- Forbidden to the Jews Le 11:44,45 - THINGS LIABLE TO CEREMONIAL . The person Le 5:3 . Garments Le 13:59 . Furniture, Le 15:9,10; Nu 19:14,15 . Houses Le 14:44 . The land Le 18:25; De 21:23 . The sanctuary Le 20:3; Zep 3:4 - CEREMONIAL CAUSED BY . Eating unclean things Le 11:8; Ac 10:11,14 . Eating things that died Le 17:15 . Touching a dead body or a bone Nu 9:6,7; 19:11,16 . Touching a grave Nu 19:16 . Touching a dead beast Le 5:2; 11:24-28 . Being alone with a dead body Nu 19:14 . Mourning for the dead Le 21:1-3 . Having a leprosy Le 13:3,11; Nu 5:2,3 . Having an issue, Le 15:2; Nu 5:2 . Touching anything defiled by an issue, Le 15:5-11 . Going into a leprous house Le 14:46 . Sacrificing the red heifer Nu 19:7 . Burning the red heifer Nu 19:8 . Gathering the ashes of the red heifer Nu 19:10 . Touching an unclean person Nu 19:22 . Child bearing Le 12:2 - Causes of, improperly enlarged by tradition Mr 7:2; Mt 15:20 - MORAL, CAUSED BY . Following the sins of the heathen Le 18:24 . Seeking after wizards Le 19:31 . Giving children to Molech Le 20:3 . Making and serving idols Eze 20:17,18; 22:3,4; 23:7 . Blood shedding Isa 59:3 - Moral, punished Le 18:24,25,28,29 - Those under, removed from the camp Nu 5:3,4; De 23:14 - PRIESTS . To decide in all cases of Le 10:10; 13:3 . Specially required to avoid Le 21:1-6,11,12 . Not to eat holy things while under Le 22:2,4-6 . Punished for eating of the holy things while under Le 22:3 - Cleansed by legal offerings Nu 19:18,19; Heb 9:13 - Neglecting purification from, punished by cutting off Nu 19:13,20 - Ceremonial, abolished under the gospel Ac 10:15; Ro 14:14; Col 2:20-22 - ILLUSTRATIVE . Of sin Mt 15:11,18; Jude 1:8 . Of unholy doctrines 1Co 3:16,17

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DEFILEMENT. → Laws relating to Le 7:18-21; 11:43; 22:2-7 → Caused by
* Leprosy Le 13:3,44-46; 14; 22:4-7
* Gonorrhea Le 15:1-15; 22:4
* Copulation Le 15:17
* Spermatorrhea Le 15:16,17
* Childbirth Le 12:2-8; Lu 2:22
* Menses Le 15:19-33; 2Sa 11:4
* Touching the dead Nu 19:11-22; 31:19,20
* Touching the carcass of any ceremonially unclean animal Le 11:39,40; 17:15,16; 22:8
* Touching carcass of an unclean thing Le 5:2-13; 11:8,24-28,31-38; 14:46-57; 15:5-11; De 23:10,11
* Killing in battle Nu 31:19,20

→ Contact with sinners falsely supposed to cause Joh 18:28 → Of priests Le 16:26,28; Nu 19:7-10; Eze 44:25,26 → Egyptian usage, concerning Ge 43:32 → See ABLUTION → See PURIFICATION → See UNCLEANNESS

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defilement. Defilement, n. pollution, corruption, baseness

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De‐file″ment (?), n. [[Cf. F. défilement. See Defile]] (Mil.) The protection of the interior walls of a fortification from an enfilading fire, as by covering them, or by a high parapet on the exposed side.