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The purity myth book6/29/2023 ![]() In the New Testament, there is little emphasis on ritual purity. Before they can engage in any cultic or ceremonial activity, God's people must be consecrated or had to sanctify themselves ( Exodus 19:10 Exodus 19:14 Joshua 7:13 1 Sam 16:5 Job 1:5 ). Yet the idea of purity does surface in a number of instances. Purity is not a cultic term in fact, it does not appear in the rules for holiness detailed in Leviticus. In Exodus 23:7, an innocent person is portrayed as someone who is righteous as measured by the demands of the law. Purity is related to guiltless, blameless, or innocent behavior. Purity consists of "clean hands" ( Gen 20:5 ), innocence ( Psalm 26:6 73:13 ), and an "empty stomach" ( Amos 4:6 ). It stands over against such conduct or attitudes as unfaithfulness to God's covenant ( Hosea 8:1 ), rebellion against God's law (v. The verb appears about forty times, most occurrences with an ethical, moral, or forensic sense. In the Old Testament, the basic sense of the Hebrew word for purity is probably an emptying out or being clean. ![]()
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