Leviticus 22:6
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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.
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let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
Anyone who touches his bed must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.
So Haggai asked, “If one who is defiled by contact with a corpse touches any of these, does it become defiled?” “Yes, it becomes defiled,” the priests answered.
And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.