Topic
Pollution
5 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Leviticus 21:6ISBE
They shall be holy unto their God, and not profane the name of their God: for the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and the bread of their God, they do offer: therefore they shall be holy.
- Ezra 2:62ISBE
These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood.
- Malachi 1:7ISBE
Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD is contemptible.
- Matthew 6:11ISBE
Give us this day our daily bread.
- Acts 15:20ISBE
But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 6 references
po-lu'-shun (ga'al, "to pollute"; alisgema, "contamination"): In Mal 1:7, "Ye offer polluted bread," i.e. not actually unclean, but worthless, common (compare Ezr 2:62), bread here being used metonymically for sacrificial offerings generally (compare Le 21:6; Mt 6:11). The phrase in Ac 15:20, "the pollutions of idols," is explained in 15:29 by "things sacrificed (the King James Version "meats offered") to idols."
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.