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Leviticus 21:1
And the Lord said to Moses,“ Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them, No one shall make himself unclean for the dead among his people,
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Leviticus 13:46
He shall remain unclean as long as he has the disease. He is unclean. He shall live alone. His dwelling shall be outside the camp.
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Numbers 9:6-10
And there were certain men who were unclean through touching a dead body, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day, and they came before Moses and Aaron on that day.And those men said to him,“ We are unclean through touching a dead body. Why are we kept from bringing the Lord’s offering at its appointed time among the people of Israel?”And Moses said to them,“ Wait, that I may hear what the Lord will command concerning you.”The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,“ Speak to the people of Israel, saying, If any one of you or of your descendants is unclean through touching a dead body, or is on a long journey, he shall still keep the Passover to the Lord.
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Numbers 12:14
But the Lord said to Moses,“ If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be shamed seven days? Let her be shut outside the camp seven days, and after that she may be brought in again.”
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Numbers 31:19
Encamp outside the camp seven days. Whoever of you has killed any person and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves and your captives on the third day and on the seventh day.
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Numbers 19:11-16
“ Whoever touches the dead body of any person shall be unclean seven days.He shall cleanse himself with the water on the third day and on the seventh day, and so be clean. But if he does not cleanse himself on the third day and on the seventh day, he will not become clean.Whoever touches a dead person, the body of anyone who has died, and does not cleanse himself, defiles the tabernacle of the Lord, and that person shall be cut off from Israel; because the water for impurity was not thrown on him, he shall be unclean. His uncleanness is still on him.“ This is the law when someone dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent and everyone who is in the tent shall be unclean seven days.And every open vessel that has no cover fastened on it is unclean.Whoever in the open field touches someone who was killed with a sword or who died naturally, or touches a human bone or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.
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Leviticus 15:2-27
“ Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When any man has a discharge from his body, his discharge is unclean.And this is the law of his uncleanness for a discharge: whether his body runs with his discharge, or his body is blocked up by his discharge, it is his uncleanness.Every bed on which the one with the discharge lies shall be unclean, and everything on which he sits shall be unclean.And anyone who touches his bed shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.And whoever sits on anything on which the one with the discharge has sat shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.And whoever touches the body of the one with the discharge shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.And if the one with the discharge spits on someone who is clean, then he shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.And any saddle on which the one with the discharge rides shall be unclean.And whoever touches anything that was under him shall be unclean until the evening. And whoever carries such things shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.Anyone whom the one with the discharge touches without having rinsed his hands in water shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.And an earthenware vessel that the one with the discharge touches shall be broken, and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.“ And when the one with a discharge is cleansed of his discharge, then he shall count for himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes. And he shall bathe his body in fresh water and shall be clean.And on the eighth day he shall take two turtledoves or two pigeons and come before the Lord to the entrance of the tent of meeting and give them to the priest.And the priest shall use them, one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. And the priest shall make atonement for him before the Lord for his discharge.“ If a man has an emission of semen, he shall bathe his whole body in water and be unclean until the evening.And every garment and every skin on which the semen comes shall be washed with water and be unclean until the evening.If a man lies with a woman and has an emission of semen, both of them shall bathe themselves in water and be unclean until the evening.“ When a woman has a discharge, and the discharge in her body is blood, she shall be in her menstrual impurity for seven days, and whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening.And everything on which she lies during her menstrual impurity shall be unclean. Everything also on which she sits shall be unclean.And whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.And whoever touches anything on which she sits shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.Whether it is the bed or anything on which she sits, when he touches it he shall be unclean until the evening.And if any man lies with her and her menstrual impurity comes upon him, he shall be unclean seven days, and every bed on which he lies shall be unclean.“ If a woman has a discharge of blood for many days, not at the time of her menstrual impurity, or if she has a discharge beyond the time of her impurity, all the days of the discharge she shall continue in uncleanness. As in the days of her impurity, she shall be unclean.Every bed on which she lies, all the days of her discharge, shall be to her as the bed of her impurity. And everything on which she sits shall be unclean, as in the uncleanness of her menstrual impurity.And whoever touches these things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.
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2 Kings 7 3
Now there were four men who were lepers at the entrance to the gate. And they said to one another,“ Why are we sitting here until we die?
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Deuteronomy 24:8-9
“ Take care, in a case of leprous disease, to be very careful to do according to all that the Levitical priests shall direct you. As I commanded them, so you shall be careful to do.Remember what the Lord your God did to Miriam on the way as you came out of Egypt.