Clean and Unclean

The ceremonial purity laws were put in place to set the children of Israel apart to God, and from the other nations around them. Many of these laws were not going to actually clean a person’s moral character. Jesus tells us in the New Testament that these kinds of laws were to teach a principle — that sin is pervasive. And as they kept ceremonially pure, they would worship their God in purity, unlike the pagan nations.