Sentences with phrase «ritually unclean»

Ablution was also required in a number of life situations, e.g. after the consumption of ritually unclean food, after emission of semen, after sexual intercourse, and after contact with ritually unclean persons or things.

@Russ In the Biblical sense, «abomination» means ritually unclean.

7:37 - 38).74 Jesus clearly regarded women as persons of dignity and worth by his many healing of women, by his acceptance, and forgiveness of undesirable and ritually unclean women, and by his implicit challenges to male sexual devaluation of women.75

Or the state that women are ritually unclean for seven days after giving birth to a boy baby but it's fourteen days for a girl baby?

In Jesus and the Victory of God (Fortress Press), Wright urges us to see these healings in their original context: «For a first - century Jew, most if not all of the works of healing could be seen as the restoration to membership in Israel of those who, through sickness or whatever, had been excluded as ritually unclean.»