Genesis 35:2

New Century Version

So Jacob said to his family and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods you have, and make yourselves clean, and change your clothes.

Cross References

Genesis 18:19

I have chosen him so he would command his children and his descendants to live the way the Lord wants them to, to live right and be fair. Then I, the Lord, will give Abraham what I promised him.”

Genesis 31:19

While Laban was gone to cut the wool from his sheep, Rachel stole the idols that belonged to him.

Genesis 31:30

I know you want to go back to your home, but why did you steal my idols?”

Genesis 31:34

Rachel had hidden the idols inside her camel’s saddle and was sitting on them. Although Laban looked through the whole tent, he did not find them.

Genesis 34:2

When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the ruler of the land, saw her, he took her and forced her to have sexual relations with him.

Genesis 35:22

While Israel was there, Reuben had sexual relations with Israel’s slave woman Bilhah, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons.

2 Samuel 7:23

There is no nation like your people Israel. They are the only people on earth that God chose to be his own. You made your name well known. You did great and wonderful miracles for them. You went ahead of them and forced other nations and their gods out of the land. You freed your people from slavery in Egypt.

2 Kings 17:29

But each nation made gods of its own and put them in the cities where they lived and in the temples where gods were worshiped. These temples had been built by the Samaritans.

2 Kings 5:10

Elisha sent Naaman a messenger who said, “Go and wash in the Jordan River seven times. Then your skin will be healed, and you will be clean.”

1 Chronicles 16:26

All the gods of the nations are only idols, but the Lord made the skies.

Job 1:5

After a feast was over, Job would send and have them made clean. Early in the morning Job would offer a burnt offering for each of them, because he thought, “My children may have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” Job did this every time.

Psalm 51:2

Wash away all my guilt and make me clean again.

Psalm 51:7

Take away my sin, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

Exodus 19:10

The Lord said to Moses, “Go to the people and have them spend today and tomorrow preparing themselves. They must wash their clothes

Exodus 19:14

After Moses went down from the mountain to the people, he made them prepare themselves for service to God, and they washed their clothes.

Exodus 23:13

“Be sure to do all that I have said to you. You must not even say the names of other gods; those names must not come out of your mouth.

Ecclesiastes 5:1

Be careful when you go to worship at the Temple. It is better to listen than to offer foolish sacrifices without even knowing you are doing wrong.

Isaiah 1:16

Wash yourselves and make yourselves clean. Stop doing the evil things I see you do. Stop doing wrong.

Isaiah 52:11

You people, leave, leave; get out of Babylon! Touch nothing that is unclean. You men who carry the Lord’s things used in worship, leave there and make yourselves pure.

Jeremiah 13:27

I have seen the terrible things you have done: your acts of adultery and your snorting, your prostitution, your hateful acts on the hills and in the fields. How terrible it will be for you, Jerusalem. How long will you continue being unclean?”

Jeremiah 16:20

Can people make gods for themselves? They will not really be gods!”

Jeremiah 5:7

The Lord said, “Tell me why I should forgive you. Your children have left me and have made promises to idols that are not gods at all. I gave your children everything they needed, but they still were like an unfaithful wife to me. They spent much time in houses of prostitutes.

Ezekiel 18:31

Get rid of all the sins you have done, and get for yourselves a new heart and a new way of thinking. Why do you want to die, people of Israel?

Ezekiel 20:7

I said to them, “Each one of you must throw away the hateful idols you have seen and liked. Don’t make yourselves unclean with the idols of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.”

Ezekiel 36:25

Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your uncleanness and your idols.

Daniel 5:4

As they were drinking, they praised their gods, which were made from gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.

Leviticus 15:5

Anyone who touches his bed must wash his clothes and bathe in water, and the person will be unclean until evening.

Leviticus 17:16

If he does not wash his clothes and bathe his body, he will be guilty of sin.’ ”

Numbers 31:24

On the seventh day wash your clothes, and you will be clean. After that you may come into the camp.”

Acts 19:26

But look at what this man Paul is doing. He has convinced and turned away many people in Ephesus and in almost all of Asia! He says the gods made by human hands are not real.

1 Corinthians 10:7

Do not worship idols, as some of them did. Just as it is written in the Scriptures: “They sat down to eat and drink, and then they got up and sinned sexually.”

2 Corinthians 7:1

Dear friends, we have these promises from God, so we should make ourselves pure—free from anything that makes body or soul unclean. We should try to become holy in the way we live, because we respect God.

Galatians 4:8

In the past you did not know God. You were slaves to gods that were not real.

Deuteronomy 11:28

But you will be cursed if you disobey the commands of the Lord your God. So do not disobey the commands I am giving you today, and do not worship other gods you do not know.

Deuteronomy 32:16

They made God jealous with foreign gods and angry with hateful idols.

Deuteronomy 5:7

“You must not have any other gods except me.

Deuteronomy 6:14

Do not worship other gods as the people around you do,

Deuteronomy 7:25

Burn up their idols in the fire. Do not wish for the silver and gold they have, and don’t take it for yourselves, or you will be trapped by it. The Lord your God hates it.

Hebrews 10:22

let us come near to God with a sincere heart and a sure faith, because we have been made free from a guilty conscience, and our bodies have been washed with pure water.

James 4:8

Come near to God, and God will come near to you. You sinners, clean sin out of your lives. You who are trying to follow God and the world at the same time, make your thinking pure.

Joshua 23:7

Don’t become friends with the people living among us who are not Israelites. Don’t say the names of their gods or make anyone swear by them. Don’t serve or worship them.

Joshua 24:14

Then Joshua said to the people, “Now respect the Lord and serve him fully and sincerely. Throw away the gods that your ancestors worshiped on the other side of the Euphrates River and in Egypt. Serve the Lord.

Joshua 24:15

But if you don’t want to serve the Lord, you must choose for yourselves today whom you will serve. You may serve the gods that your ancestors worshiped when they lived on the other side of the Euphrates River, or you may serve the gods of the Amorites who lived in this land. As for me and my family, we will serve the Lord.”

Joshua 24:2

Then Joshua said to all the people, “Here’s what the Lord, the God of Israel, says to you: ‘A long time ago your ancestors lived on the other side of the Euphrates River. Terah, the father of Abraham and Nahor, worshiped other gods.

Joshua 24:20

If you leave the Lord and serve other gods, he will send you great trouble. The Lord may have been good to you, but if you turn against him, he will destroy you.”

Joshua 24:23

Then Joshua said, “Now throw away the gods that you have. Love the Lord, the God of Israel, with all your heart.”

Jude 1:23

Take others out of the fire, and save them. Show mercy mixed with fear to others, hating even their clothes which are dirty from sin.

Judges 10:16

Then the Israelites threw away the foreign gods among them, and they worshiped the Lord again. So he felt sorry for them when he saw their suffering.

Ruth 1:15

Naomi said to Ruth, “Look, your sister-in-law is going back to her own people and her own gods. Go back with her.”

1 Samuel 16:5

Samuel answered, “Yes, I come in peace. I have come to make a sacrifice to the Lord. Set yourselves apart to the Lord and come to the sacrifice with me.” Then he set Jesse and his sons apart to the Lord, and he invited them to come to the sacrifice.

1 Samuel 7:3

Samuel spoke to the whole group of Israel, saying, “If you’re turning back to the Lord with all your hearts, you must remove your foreign gods and your idols of Ashtoreth. You must give yourselves fully to the Lord and serve only him. Then he will save you from the Philistines.”