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He said, “Peaceably. I have come to sacrifice to the Lord; sanctify yourselves and come with me to the sacrifice.” And he sanctified Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice.(A)

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Then Joshua said to the people, “Sanctify yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you.”(A)

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Consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, for I am the Lord your God.(A) Keep my statutes and observe them: I am the Lord; I sanctify you.(B)

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10 the Lord said to Moses, “Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow. Have them wash their clothes(A)

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28 Examine yourselves, and only then eat of the bread and drink of the cup.(A)

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13 Proceed to sanctify the people and say, ‘Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, for thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: There are devoted things among you, O Israel; you will be unable to stand before your enemies until you take away the devoted things from among you.(A)

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14 So Moses went down from the mountain to the people. He consecrated the people, and they washed their clothes. 15 And he said to the people, “Prepare for the third day; do not go near a woman.”

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16     gather the people.
Consecrate the congregation;
    assemble the aged;
gather the children,
    even infants at the breast.
Let the bridegroom leave his room
    and the bride her canopy.(A)

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Prove me, O Lord, and try me;
    test my heart and mind.(A)
For your steadfast love is before my eyes,
    and I walk in faithfulness to you.[a](B)

I do not sit with the worthless,
    nor do I consort with hypocrites;(C)
I hate the company of evildoers
    and will not sit with the wicked.(D)

I wash my hands in innocence
    and go around your altar, O Lord,(E)

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Footnotes

  1. 26.3 Or in your faithfulness

And when the feast days had run their course, Job would send and sanctify them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all, for Job said, “It may be that my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” This is what Job always did.(A)

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17 For there were many in the assembly who had not sanctified themselves; therefore the Levites had to slaughter the Passover lamb for everyone who was not clean, to make it holy to the Lord.(A) 18 For a multitude of the people, many of them from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the Passover contrary to what was prescribed. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, “May the good Lord pardon all(B) 19 who set their hearts to seek God, the Lord the God of their ancestors, even though not in accordance with the sanctuary’s rules of cleanness.”(C) 20 The Lord heard Hezekiah and healed the people.

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The people went around and gathered it, ground it in mills or beat it in mortars, then boiled it in pots and made cakes of it, and the taste of it was like the taste of cakes baked with oil.

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