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2 Corinthians 6 17
Therefore, come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord; do not touch any unclean thing, and I will welcome you.
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Zechariah 2:6-7
“ Listen! Listen! Flee from the land of the north”— this is the LORD’s declaration—“ for I have scattered you like the four winds of heaven”— this is the LORD’s declaration.“ Listen, Zion! Escape, you who are living with Daughter Babylon.”
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Isaiah 48:20
Leave Babylon, flee from the Chaldeans! Declare with a shout of joy, proclaim this, let it go out to the end of the earth; announce,“ The LORD has redeemed his servant Jacob!”
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Revelation 18:4
Then I heard another voice from heaven: Come out of her, my people, so that you will not share in her sins or receive any of her plagues.
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Jeremiah 50:8
Escape from Babylon; depart from the Chaldeans’ land. Be like the rams that lead the flock.
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Ezekiel 44:23
They are to teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and explain to them the difference between the clean and the unclean.
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1 Peter 1 14-1 Peter 1 16
As obedient children, do not be conformed to the desires of your former ignorance.But as the one who called you is holy, you also are to be holy in all your conduct;for it is written, Be holy, because I am holy.
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Jeremiah 51:6
Leave Babylon; save your lives, each of you! Don’t perish because of her guilt. For this is the time of the LORD’s vengeance— he will pay her what she deserves.
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Leviticus 22:2-33
“ Tell Aaron and his sons to deal respectfully with the holy offerings of the Israelites that they have consecrated to me, so they do not profane my holy name; I am the LORD.Say to them: If any man from any of your descendants throughout your generations is in a state of uncleanness yet approaches the holy offerings that the Israelites consecrate to the LORD, that person will be cut off from my presence; I am the LORD.No man of Aaron’s descendants who has a skin disease or a discharge is to eat from the holy offerings until he is clean. Whoever touches anything made unclean by a dead person or by a man who has an emission of semen,or whoever touches any swarming creature that makes him unclean or any person who makes him unclean— whatever his uncleanness—the man who touches any of these will remain unclean until evening and is not to eat from the holy offerings unless he has bathed his body with water.When the sun has set, he will become clean, and then he may eat from the holy offerings, for that is his food.He must not eat an animal that died naturally or was mauled by wild beasts, making himself unclean by it; I am the LORD.They must keep my instruction, or they will be guilty and die because they profane it; I am the LORD who sets them apart.“ No one outside a priest’s family is to eat the holy offering. A foreigner staying with a priest or a hired worker is not to eat the holy offering.But if a priest purchases someone with his own silver, that person may eat it, and those born in his house may eat his food.If the priest’s daughter is married to a man outside a priest’s family, she is not to eat from the holy contributions.But if the priest’s daughter becomes widowed or divorced, has no children, and returns to her father’s house as in her youth, she may share her father’s food. But no outsider may share it.If anyone eats a holy offering in error, he is to add a fifth to its value and give the holy offering to the priest.The priests must not profane the holy offerings the Israelites give to the LORDby letting the people eat their holy offerings and having them bear the penalty of restitution. For I am the LORD who sets them apart.”The LORD spoke to Moses:“ Speak to Aaron, his sons, and all the Israelites and tell them: Any man of the house of Israel or of the resident aliens in Israel who presents his offering— whether they present payment of vows or freewill gifts to the LORD as burnt offerings—must offer an unblemished male from the cattle, sheep, or goats in order for you to be accepted.You are not to present anything that has a defect, because it will not be accepted on your behalf.“ When a man presents a fellowship sacrifice to the LORD to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering from the herd or flock, it has to be unblemished to be acceptable; there must be no defect in it.You are not to present any animal to the LORD that is blind, injured, maimed, or has a running sore, festering rash, or scabs; you may not put any of them on the altar as a food offering to the LORD.You may sacrifice as a freewill offering any animal from the herd or flock that has an elongated or stunted limb, but it is not acceptable as a vow offering.You are not to present to the LORD anything that has bruised, crushed, torn, or severed testicles; you must not sacrifice them in your land.Neither you nor a foreigner are to present food to your God from any of these animals. They will not be accepted for you because they are deformed and have a defect.”The LORD spoke to Moses:“ When an ox, sheep, or goat is born, it is to remain with its mother for seven days; from the eighth day on, it will be acceptable as an offering, a food offering to the LORD.But you are not to slaughter an animal from the herd or flock on the same day as its young.When you offer a thanksgiving sacrifice to the LORD, offer it so that you may be accepted.It is to be eaten on the same day. Do not let any of it remain until morning; I am the LORD.“ You are to keep my commands and do them; I am the LORD.You must not profane my holy name; I must be treated as holy among the Israelites. I am the LORD who sets you apart,the one who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God; I am the LORD.”
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Isaiah 1:16
“ Wash yourselves. Cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from my sight. Stop doing evil.
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Ezra 1:7-11
King Cyrus also brought out the articles of the LORD’s house that Nebuchadnezzar had taken from Jerusalem and had placed in the house of his gods.King Cyrus of Persia had them brought out under the supervision of Mithredath the treasurer, who counted them out to Sheshbazzar the prince of Judah.This was the inventory: 30 gold basins, 1,000 silver basins, 29 silver knives,30 gold bowls, 410 various silver bowls, and 1,000 other articles.The gold and silver articles totaled 5,400. Sheshbazzar brought all of them when the exiles went up from Babylon to Jerusalem.
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Romans 14:14
I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself. Still, to someone who considers a thing to be unclean, to that one it is unclean.
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1 Peter 2 11
Dear friends, I urge you as strangers and exiles to abstain from sinful desires that wage war against the soul.
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Ezra 8:25-30
I weighed out to them the silver, the gold, and the articles— the contribution for the house of our God that the king, his counselors, his leaders, and all the Israelites who were present had offered.I weighed out to them 24 tons of silver, silver articles weighing 7,500 pounds, 7,500 pounds of gold,twenty gold bowls worth a thousand gold coins, and two articles of fine gleaming bronze, as valuable as gold.Then I said to them,“ You are holy to the LORD, and the articles are holy. The silver and gold are a freewill offering to the LORD God of your ancestors.Guard them carefully until you weigh them out in the chambers of the LORD’s house before the leading priests, Levites, and heads of the Israelite families in Jerusalem.”So the priests and Levites took charge of the silver, the gold, and the articles that had been weighed out, to bring them to the house of our God in Jerusalem.
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Acts 10:28
Peter said to them,“ You know it’s forbidden for a Jewish man to associate with or visit a foreigner, but God has shown me that I must not call any person impure or unclean.
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Ephesians 5:11
Don’t participate in the fruitless works of darkness, but instead expose them.
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Jeremiah 51:45
Come out from among her, my people! Save your lives, each of you, from the LORD’s burning anger.
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Haggai 2:13-14
Then Haggai asked,“ If someone defiled by contact with a corpse touches any of these, does it become defiled?” The priests answered,“ It becomes defiled.”Then Haggai replied,“ So is this people, and so is this nation before me— this is the LORD’s declaration. And so is every work of their hands; even what they offer there is defiled.
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Acts 10:14
“ No, Lord!” Peter said.“ For I have never eaten anything impure and ritually unclean.”
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Leviticus 5:2-3
Or if someone touches anything unclean— a carcass of an unclean wild animal, or unclean livestock, or an unclean swarming creature— without being aware of it, he is unclean and incurs guilt.Or if he touches human uncleanness— any uncleanness by which one can become defiled— without being aware of it, but later recognizes it, he incurs guilt.
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Leviticus 10:3
Moses said to Aaron,“ This is what the LORD has spoken: I will demonstrate my holiness to those who are near me, and I will reveal my glory before all the people.” And Aaron remained silent.
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Leviticus 11:26-27
All animals that have hooves but do not have a divided hoof and do not chew the cud are unclean for you. Whoever touches them becomes unclean.All the four-footed animals that walk on their paws are unclean for you. Whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean until evening,
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1 Peter 2 5
you yourselves, as living stones, a spiritual house, are being built to be a holy priesthood to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
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Leviticus 11:45
For I am the LORD, who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be your God, so you must be holy because I am holy.
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Leviticus 11:47
in order to distinguish between the unclean and the clean, between the animals that may be eaten and those that may not be eaten.”
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Leviticus 15:5-33
Anyone who touches his bed is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.Whoever sits on furniture that the man with the discharge was sitting on is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.Whoever touches the body of the man with a discharge is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.If the man with the discharge spits on anyone who is clean, he is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.Any saddle the man with the discharge rides on will be unclean.Whoever touches anything that was under him will be unclean until evening, and whoever carries such things is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.If the man with the discharge touches anyone without first rinsing his hands in water, the person who was touched is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.Any clay pot that the man with the discharge touches must be broken, while any wooden utensil is to be rinsed with water.“ When the man with the discharge has been cured of it, he is to count seven days for his cleansing, wash his clothes, and bathe his body in fresh water; he will be clean.He must take two turtledoves or two young pigeons on the eighth day, come before the LORD at the entrance to the tent of meeting, and give them to the priest.The priest is to sacrifice them, one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering. In this way the priest will make atonement for him before the LORD because of his discharge.“ When a man has an emission of semen, he is to bathe himself completely with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.Any clothing or leather on which there is an emission of semen is to be washed with water, and it will remain unclean until evening.If a man sleeps with a woman and has an emission of semen, both of them are to bathe with water, and they will remain unclean until evening.“ When a woman has a discharge, and it consists of blood from her body, she will be unclean because of her menstruation for seven days. Everyone who touches her will be unclean until evening.Anything she lies on during her menstruation will become unclean, and anything she sits on will become unclean.Everyone who touches her bed is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.Everyone who touches any furniture she was sitting on is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.If discharge is on the bed or the furniture she was sitting on, when he touches it he will be unclean until evening.If a man sleeps with her, and blood from her menstruation gets on him, he will be unclean for seven days, and every bed he lies on will become unclean.“ When a woman has a discharge of her blood for many days, though it is not the time of her menstruation, or if she has a discharge beyond her period, she will be unclean all the days of her unclean discharge, as she is during the days of her menstruation.Any bed she lies on during the days of her discharge will be like her bed during menstrual impurity; any furniture she sits on will be unclean as in her menstrual period.Everyone who touches them will be unclean; he must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.When she is cured of her discharge, she is to count seven days, and after that she will be clean.On the eighth day she must take two turtledoves or two young pigeons and bring them to the priest at the entrance to the tent of meeting.The priest is to sacrifice one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering. In this way the priest will make atonement for her before the LORD because of her unclean discharge.“ You must keep the Israelites from their uncleanness, so that they do not die by defiling my tabernacle that is among them.This is the law for someone with a discharge: a man who has an emission of semen, becoming unclean by it;a woman who is in her menstrual period; anyone who has a discharge, whether male or female; and a man who sleeps with a woman who is unclean.”
