1 Samuel 20:26

Good News Translation

but Saul said nothing that day, because he thought, “Something has happened to him, and he is not ritually pure.”

Cross References

Leviticus 11:24

If you touch the dead bodies of the following animals, you will be unclean until evening: all animals with hoofs, unless their hoofs are divided and they chew the cud, and all four-footed animals with paws. If you carry their dead bodies, you must wash your clothes, but you will still be unclean until evening.

Leviticus 11:31

Whoever touches them or their dead bodies will be unclean until evening.

Leviticus 11:40

And if any of you eat any part of the animal, you must wash your clothes, but you will still be unclean until evening; any of you who carry the dead body must wash your clothes, but you will still be unclean until evening.

Leviticus 15:5

Anyone who touches his bed

Numbers 19:16

If any touch a person who has been killed or has died a natural death outdoors or if any touch a human bone or a grave, they become unclean for seven days.

1 Samuel 16:5

“Yes,” he answered. “I have come to offer a sacrifice to the Lord. Purify yourselves and come with me.” He also told Jesse and his sons to purify themselves, and he invited them to the sacrifice.

1 Samuel 20:27

On the following day, the day after the New Moon Festival, David's place was still empty, and Saul asked Jonathan, “Why didn't David come to the meal either yesterday or today?”