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Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Acts 9:37 NT

  In those days, she became sick, and died. When they had washed her, they laid her in an upper room.

• Ezekiel 16:4 OT

  As for your birth, in the day you were born your navel was not cut. You weren’t washed in water to cleanse you. You weren’t salted at all, nor wrapped in blankets at all.

• Matthew 6:17 NT

  But you, when you fast, anoint your head, and wash your face;

• Genesis 18:4 OT

  Now let a little water be fetched, wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.

• Genesis 19:2 OT

  and he said, “See now, my lords, please come into your servant’s house, stay all night, wash your feet, and you can rise up early, and go on your way.” They said, “No, but we will stay in the street all night.”

• Genesis 24:32 OT

  The man came into the house, and he unloaded the camels. He gave straw and feed for the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him.

• Genesis 43:24 OT

  The man brought the men into Joseph’s house, and gave them water, and they washed their feet. He gave their donkeys fodder.

• Exodus 30:19 OT

  Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet in it.

• Exodus 30:21 OT

  So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they not die. This shall be a statute forever to them, even to him and to his descendants throughout their generations.”

• Judges 19:21 OT

  So he brought him into his house, and gave the donkeys fodder. Then they washed their feet, and ate and drank.

• 2 Samuel 11:8 OT

  David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” Uriah departed out of the king’s house, and a gift from the king was sent after him.

• Song of Solomon 5:3 OT

  I have taken off my robe. Indeed, must I put it on? I have washed my feet. Indeed, must I soil them?

• Luke 7:38 NT

  Standing behind at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears, and she wiped them with the hair of her head, kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.

• Luke 7:44 NT

  Turning to the woman, he said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I entered into your house, and you gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head.

• John 13:5 NT

  Then he poured water into the basin, and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him.

• Exodus 30:18-21 OT

  “You shall also make a basin of bronze, and its base of bronze, in which to wash. You shall put it between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it. Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet in it.…

• Exodus 40:30-32 OT

  He set the basin between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and put water therein, with which to wash. Moses, Aaron, and his sons washed their hands and their feet there. When they went into the Tent of Meeting, and when they came near to…

• Deuteronomy 21:6 OT

  All the elders of that city which is nearest to the slain man shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley.

• Psalms 26:6 OT

  I will wash my hands in innocence, so I will go about your altar, Yahweh,

• Matthew 27:24 NT

  So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, “I am innocent of the blood of this righteous person. You see to it.”

• Leviticus 14:8 OT

  “He who is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and bathe himself in water; and he shall be clean. After that he shall come into the camp, but shall dwell outside his tent seven days.

• Leviticus 14:9 OT

  It shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off. He shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his body in water. Then he shall be clean.

• Leviticus 15:5-13 OT

  Whoever touches his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening. He who sits on anything on which the man who has the discharge sat shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be…

• Leviticus 17:15 OT

  “ ‘Every person that eats what dies of itself, or that which is torn by animals, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening. Then he shall be clean.