Bible Verses About Separation

Bible Verses AboutSeparation

Bible verses about Separation

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Understanding separation through scripture is vital for spiritual growth. The Bible highlights different types of separation: from sin, from the world, and even physical separation for spiritual pursuits. Exploring these verses reveals God's desire for us to be set apart for His holy purposes. It's not about isolation, but about aligning our hearts and minds with His will. Through studying separation, we gain discernment, learn to prioritize God's kingdom, and cultivate a deeper intimacy with Him. Embracing the scriptural understanding of separation empowers us to live lives that reflect His light and truth in a world often pulling us away from Him.

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All fowls that creep, going upon all four, shall be an abomination unto you.

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Leviticus 11:20KJV
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And they said, Thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not.

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Genesis 42:13KJV
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And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham’s servant, and his men.

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Genesis 24:59KJV
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All fowls that creep, going upon all four, shall be an abomination unto you.

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Leviticus 11:20KJV
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And they said, Thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not.

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Genesis 42:13KJV
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And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham’s servant, and his men.

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Genesis 24:59KJV
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And if he that hath the issue spit upon him that is clean; then he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.

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Leviticus 15:8KJV
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And whosoever beareth ought of the carcase of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even.

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Leviticus 11:25KJV
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But if ye will not hearken unto us, to be circumcised; then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone.

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Genesis 34:17KJV
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And the priest shall take the sodden shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them upon the hands of the Nazarite, after the hair of his separation is shaven:

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Numbers 6:19KJV
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Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.

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Leviticus 20:25KJV
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And the king went forth, and all the people after him, and tarried in a place that was far off.

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2 Samuel 15:17KJV
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The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it be a woollen garment, or a linen garment;

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Leviticus 13:47KJV
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These also shall be unclean unto you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise after his kind,

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Leviticus 11:29KJV
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But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.

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2 Samuel 12:23KJV
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For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.

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Numbers 23:9KJV
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But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,

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Deuteronomy 14:12KJV
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And if it be on her bed, or on any thing whereon she sitteth, when he toucheth it, he shall be unclean until the even.

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Leviticus 15:23KJV
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Whosoever shall make like unto that, to smell thereto, shall even be cut off from his people.

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Exodus 30:38KJV
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If there be among you any man, that is not clean by reason of uncleanness that chanceth him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp:

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Deuteronomy 23:10KJV
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Now it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.

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Nehemiah 13:3KJV
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He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.

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Psalms 10:11KJV
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But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country.

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Genesis 25:6KJV
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Then David went over to the other side, and stood on the top of an hill afar off; a great space being between them:

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1 Samuel 26:13KJV
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But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.

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Isaiah 59:2KJV
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And Aaron shall come into the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall put off the linen garments, which he put on when he went into the holy place, and shall leave them there:

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Leviticus 16:23KJV
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And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.

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Genesis 21:28KJV
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All the days of the vow of his separation there shall no razor come upon his head: until the days be fulfilled, in the which he separateth himself unto the Lord, he shall be holy, and shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow.

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Numbers 6:5KJV
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All the days of his separation he is holy unto the Lord.

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Numbers 6:8KJV
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Whosoever compoundeth any like it, or whosoever putteth any of it upon a stranger, shall even be cut off from his people.

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Exodus 30:33KJV
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It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.

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Proverbs 25:24KJV
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Then Samuel told the people the manner of the kingdom, and wrote it in a book, and laid it up before the Lord. And Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house.

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1 Samuel 10:25KJV
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I said, I shall not see the Lord, even the Lord, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

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Isaiah 38:11KJV
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And the king went forth, and all the people after him, and tarried in a place that was far off.

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2 Samuel 15:17KJV
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And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his father’s house.

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1 Samuel 18:2KJV
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For the Lord hath made Jordan a border between us and you, ye children of Reuben and children of Gad; ye have no part in the Lord: so shall your children make our children cease from fearing the Lord.

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Joshua 22:25KJV
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So he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and he said unto them, See that ye fall not out by the way.

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Genesis 45:24KJV
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And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home:

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1 Samuel 6:10KJV
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Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three cities for thee.

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Deuteronomy 19:7KJV
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And he said unto them, Depart yet for three days, then come again to me. And the people departed.

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1 Kings 12:5KJV
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And the priest shall take the sodden shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them upon the hands of the Nazarite, after the hair of his separation is shaven:

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Numbers 6:19KJV
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The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it be a woollen garment, or a linen garment;

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Leviticus 13:47KJV
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Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water.

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Deuteronomy 12:24KJV
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And Moses let his father in law depart; and he went his way into his own land.

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Exodus 18:27KJV
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And her husband went with her along weeping behind her to Bahurim. Then said Abner unto him, Go, return. And he returned.

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2 Samuel 3:16KJV
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We be twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.

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Genesis 42:32KJV
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But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.

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2 Samuel 12:23KJV
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For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? is it not in that thou goest with us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth.

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Exodus 33:16KJV
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And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham’s servant, and his men.

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Genesis 24:59KJV
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And he shall cause the house to be scraped within round about, and they shall pour out the dust that they scrape off without the city into an unclean place:

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Leviticus 14:41KJV
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At that time the Lord separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the Lord, to stand before the Lord to minister unto him, and to bless in his name, unto this day.

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Deuteronomy 10:8KJV
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Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!

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Psalms 81:13KJV
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And if he that hath the issue spit upon him that is clean; then he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.

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Leviticus 15:8KJV
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And the vessel of earth, that he toucheth which hath the issue, shall be broken: and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.

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Leviticus 15:12KJV
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Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!

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Psalms 81:13KJV
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Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.

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Psalms 139:19KJV
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For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.

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Numbers 23:9KJV
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A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

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Proverbs 19:13KJV
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And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant,

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Deuteronomy 14:17KJV
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Whosoever compoundeth any like it, or whosoever putteth any of it upon a stranger, shall even be cut off from his people.

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Exodus 30:33KJV
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It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.

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Proverbs 21:9KJV
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The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.

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Genesis 49:26KJV
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And the Lord have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.

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Isaiah 6:12KJV
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Whereas thou camest but yesterday, should I this day make thee go up and down with us? seeing I go whither I may, return thou, and take back thy brethren: mercy and truth be with thee.

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2 Samuel 15:20KJV
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And he that toucheth the flesh of him that hath the issue shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.

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Leviticus 15:7KJV
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And the clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he shall purify himself, and wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at even.

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Numbers 19:19KJV
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So Absalom dwelt two full years in Jerusalem, and saw not the king’s face.

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2 Samuel 14:28KJV
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These also shall be unclean unto you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise after his kind,

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Leviticus 11:29KJV
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All the days of the vow of his separation there shall no razor come upon his head: until the days be fulfilled, in the which he separateth himself unto the Lord, he shall be holy, and shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow.

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Numbers 6:5KJV
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All the days of his separation he is holy unto the Lord.

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Numbers 6:8KJV
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And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept.

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Genesis 21:16KJV
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The lot causeth contentions to cease, and parteth between the mighty.

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Proverbs 18:18KJV
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Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled.

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Deuteronomy 22:9KJV
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And he shall consecrate unto the Lord the days of his separation, and shall bring a lamb of the first year for a trespass offering: but the days that were before shall be lost, because his separation was defiled.

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Numbers 6:12KJV
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And every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth shall be an abomination; it shall not be eaten.

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Leviticus 11:41KJV
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And I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there; to the end thou mayest know that I am the Lord in the midst of the earth.

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Exodus 8:22KJV
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And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we.

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Genesis 26:16KJV
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Whosoever compoundeth any like it, or whosoever putteth any of it upon a stranger, shall even be cut off from his people.

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Exodus 30:33KJV
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Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water.

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Deuteronomy 12:24KJV
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Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination unto you.

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Leviticus 11:12KJV
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He shall be shaven, but the scall shall he not shave; and the priest shall shut up him that hath the scall seven days more:

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Leviticus 13:33KJV
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Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.

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Leviticus 7:26KJV
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And the Lord have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.

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Isaiah 6:12KJV
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And every thing whereupon any part of their carcase falleth shall be unclean; whether it be oven, or ranges for pots, they shall be broken down: for they are unclean, and shall be unclean unto you.

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Leviticus 11:35KJV
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And Judah spake unto him, saying, The man did solemnly protest unto us, saying, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you.

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Genesis 43:3KJV
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And he shall consecrate unto the Lord the days of his separation, and shall bring a lamb of the first year for a trespass offering: but the days that were before shall be lost, because his separation was defiled.

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Numbers 6:12KJV
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Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.

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Leviticus 20:25KJV
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I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.

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Song of Solomon 5:6KJV
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And if any man’s seed of copulation go out from him, then he shall wash all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the even.

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Leviticus 15:16KJV
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And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat.

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Deuteronomy 14:6KJV
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For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.

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Isaiah 18:5KJV
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But those that encamp before the tabernacle toward the east, even before the tabernacle of the congregation eastward, shall be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the children of Israel; and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.

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Numbers 3:38KJV
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As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.

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Psalms 103:12KJV
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And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves?

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Genesis 21:29KJV
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For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:

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Proverbs 7:19KJV
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And this is the law of the Nazarite, when the days of his separation are fulfilled: he shall be brought unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:

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Numbers 6:13KJV
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And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok.

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Genesis 32:22KJV
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Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah.

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Psalms 55:7KJV
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And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham’s servant, and his men.

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Genesis 24:59KJV
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If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,

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Deuteronomy 22:13KJV
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And whosoever beareth ought of the carcase of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even.

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Leviticus 11:25KJV
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Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.

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Deuteronomy 20:15KJV
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Whosoever compoundeth any like it, or whosoever putteth any of it upon a stranger, shall even be cut off from his people.

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Exodus 30:33KJV
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And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by themselves; and said unto his servants, Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove.

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Genesis 32:16KJV
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And if any man’s seed of copulation go out from him, then he shall wash all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the even.

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Leviticus 15:16KJV
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Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee.

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Leviticus 19:19KJV
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Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.

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Genesis 13:11KJV
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For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass.

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Ezra 9:2KJV
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Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah.

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Psalms 55:7KJV
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And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.

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Genesis 13:6KJV
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And the Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:

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Genesis 13:14KJV
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Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.

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Genesis 13:12KJV
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Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day.

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Isaiah 65:5KJV
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Whosoever compoundeth any like it, or whosoever putteth any of it upon a stranger, shall even be cut off from his people.

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Exodus 30:33KJV
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And ye shall be holy men unto me: neither shall ye eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs.

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Exodus 22:31KJV
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Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.

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Genesis 13:11KJV
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And if any man’s seed of copulation go out from him, then he shall wash all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the even.

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Leviticus 15:16KJV
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But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you.

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Leviticus 11:23KJV
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But Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him.

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Genesis 42:4KJV
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And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean;

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Leviticus 10:10KJV
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To teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean: this is the law of leprosy.

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Leviticus 14:57KJV
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For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.

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Leviticus 23:29KJV
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Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When either man or woman shall separate themselves to vow a vow of a Nazarite, to separate themselves unto the Lord:

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Numbers 6:2KJV
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And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people.

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Leviticus 23:30KJV
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And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by themselves; and said unto his servants, Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove.

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Genesis 32:16KJV
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And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his father’s house.

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1 Samuel 18:2KJV
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Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water.

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Deuteronomy 12:24KJV
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As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.

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Psalms 103:12KJV
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And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.

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Genesis 3:8KJV
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I said, I shall not see the Lord, even the Lord, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

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Isaiah 38:11KJV
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This is the law of the Nazarite who hath vowed, and of his offering unto the Lord for his separation, beside that that his hand shall get: according to the vow which he vowed, so he must do after the law of his separation.

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Numbers 6:21KJV
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And every garment, and every skin, whereon is the seed of copulation, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the even.

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Leviticus 15:17KJV
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Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.

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Jeremiah 7:34KJV
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The Lord shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father’s house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria.

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Isaiah 7:17KJV
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And this is the law of the Nazarite, when the days of his separation are fulfilled: he shall be brought unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:

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Numbers 6:13KJV
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And he shall consecrate unto the Lord the days of his separation, and shall bring a lamb of the first year for a trespass offering: but the days that were before shall be lost, because his separation was defiled.

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Numbers 6:12KJV
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And if he that hath the issue spit upon him that is clean; then he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.

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Leviticus 15:8KJV
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Then he called his servant that ministered unto him, and said, Put now this woman out from me, and bolt the door after her.

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2 Samuel 13:17KJV
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If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,

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Deuteronomy 22:13KJV
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Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.

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Psalms 41:9KJV
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And he set the one in Beth–el, and the other put he in Dan.

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1 Kings 12:29KJV
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Then I separated twelve of the chief of the priests, Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them,

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Ezra 8:24KJV
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So Absalom dwelt two full years in Jerusalem, and saw not the king’s face.

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2 Samuel 14:28KJV
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There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest, or an hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.

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Leviticus 22:10KJV
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And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the persons of his house, and his cattle, and all his beasts, and all his substance, which he had got in the land of Canaan; and went into the country from the face of his brother Jacob.

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Genesis 36:6KJV
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And the priest shall take the sodden shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them upon the hands of the Nazarite, after the hair of his separation is shaven:

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Numbers 6:19KJV
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And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place:

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Genesis 19:12KJV

Reflection

Contemplating Separation

The Bible's verses on separation, as explored here, reveal a consistent call to distinguish between the sacred and the profane, righteousness and wickedness. From separating ourselves from harmful influences to maintaining purity in our thoughts and actions, these passages emphasize the importance of discerning God's will and living a life set apart for His purpose. This isn't about isolation or condemnation but about a conscious choice to align ourselves with God's character and avoid the corrupting influence of the world. May these verses prompt deeper reflection on our own lives, challenging us to identify areas where separation is needed and empowering us to pursue holiness. As we intentionally choose to separate from what hinders our relationship with God, we draw closer to Him and experience the abundant blessings of a life lived in obedience and devotion.

May these verses about separation bring wisdom and guidance to your spiritual journey

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