Quotes about Taboo
Anyone in the open field who touches someone who has been killed by the sword or has died of natural causes, or anyone who touches a human bone or a grave, will be unclean for seven days.
— Numbers 19:16
as well as the pig; though it has a divided hoof, it does not chew the cud. It is unclean for you. You must not eat its meat or touch its carcass.
— Deuteronomy 14:8
A man is not to marry his father’s wife, so that he will not dishonor his father’s marriage bed.
— Deuteronomy 22:30
If any man among you becomes unclean because of a nocturnal emission, he must leave the camp and stay outside.
— Deuteronomy 23:10
You must not bring the wages of a prostitute, whether female or male, into the house of the LORD your God to fulfill any vow, because both are detestable to the LORD your God.
— Deuteronomy 23:18
‘Cursed is he who lies with any animal.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
— Deuteronomy 27:21
‘Cursed is he who sleeps with his sister, the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
— Deuteronomy 27:22
‘Cursed is he who sleeps with his mother-in-law.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
— Deuteronomy 27:23
‘Cursed is he who sleeps with his mother-in-law.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
— Deuteronomy 27:23
That is why, to this day, the priests of Dagon and all who enter the temple of Dagon in Ashdod do not step on the threshold.
— 1 Samuel 5:5
They die in their youth, among the male shrine prostitutes.
— Job 36:14
In you they have uncovered the nakedness of their fathers; in you they violate women during their menstrual impurity.
— Ezekiel 22:10