If I wash myself with snow water, and cleanse my hands with soap,

Who can understand his errors? Acquit me of that which is hidden;

I will wash my hands in innocence; thus I will go around Your altar, O Jehovah,

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

Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, O God of my salvation, and my tongue shall shout aloud of Your righteousness.

Surely I have made my heart pure in vain, and washed my hands in innocence.

For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is stained before Me, says the Lord Jehovah.

When Pilate saw that he could not prevail at all, but rather that a tumult was rising, he took water and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just Person. 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 imposed until the time when things were set right.