A student notes that foot-washing is an act of hospitality, in places like Genesis 18 and elsewhere.
It is also required of priests entering the tabernacle.
These amount to the same thing. Priests are given water to wash as they are welcomed into Yahweh’s house.
Purity rules are, perhaps, not rules of exclusion but an act of welcome.
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