Leviticus 14:8
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The one being cleansed must wash his clothes, shave off all his hair, and bathe with water; then he will be ceremonially clean. Afterward, he may enter the camp, but he must remain outside his tent for seven days.
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and whoever picks up one of their carcasses must wash his clothes, and he will be unclean until evening.
This is what you must do to cleanse them: Sprinkle them with the water of purification. Have them shave their whole bodies and wash their clothes, and so purify themselves.
And this water symbolizes the baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body, but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God—through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
“Sir,” I answered, “you know.” So he replied, “These are the ones who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
When Moses came down from the mountain to the people, he consecrated them, and they washed their clothes.
and offer it on the altar, with the grain offering, to make atonement for him, and he will be clean.
Then Moses presented Aaron and his sons and washed them with water.
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow. They must wash their clothes
So King Uzziah was a leper until the day of his death. He lived in isolation, leprous and cut off from the house of the LORD, while his son Jotham had charge of the royal palace to govern the people of the land.
On the seventh day he must shave off all his hair—his head, his beard, his eyebrows, and the rest of his hair. He must wash his clothes and bathe himself with water, and he will be clean.