For if I should wash myself with snow, and purge myself with pure hands,

Who will understand [his] transgressions? Purge me from my secret [sins].

I will wash my hands in innocence, and compass Your altar, O Lord;

Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

You shall sprinkle me with hyssop, and I shall be purified; You shall wash me, and I shall be made whiter than snow.

Deliver me from blood-guiltiness, O God, the God of my salvation; [and] my tongue shall joyfully declare Your righteousness.

And I said, Verily in vain have I justified my heart, and washed my hands in innocence.

Though you should wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, [still] you are stained by your iniquities before Me, says the Lord.

And Pilate, seeing that nothing was being gained, but rather a riot was starting, taking water, he washed his hands clean in front of the crowd, saying, "I am innocent of the blood of this just [Man]. You see to it."

And all the people answered and said, "His blood [be] on us and on our children."

[concerned] only with foods and drinks, various washings, and fleshly ordinances which are imposed until a time of reformation.