11 (A)Depart! Depart! Go out from there,
Touch no unclean thing;
Go out from the midst of her,
(B)Be clean,
You who bear the vessels of the Lord.

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11 Depart,(A) depart, go out from there!
    Touch no unclean thing!(B)
Come out from it and be pure,(C)
    you who carry the articles(D) of the Lord’s house.

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17 Therefore

(A)“Come out from among them
And be separate, says the Lord.
Do not touch what is unclean,
And I will receive you.”

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17 Therefore,

“Come out from them(A)
    and be separate,
says the Lord.
Touch no unclean thing,
    and I will receive you.”[a](B)

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 6:17 Isaiah 52:11; Ezek. 20:34,41

Future Joy of Zion and Many Nations

“Up, up! Flee (A)from the land of the north,” says the Lord; “for I have (B)spread you abroad like the four winds of heaven,” says the Lord. “Up, Zion! (C)Escape, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon.”

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“Come! Come! Flee from the land of the north,” declares the Lord, “for I have scattered(A) you to the four winds of heaven,”(B) declares the Lord.(C)

“Come, Zion! Escape,(D) you who live in Daughter Babylon!”(E)

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20 (A)Go forth from Babylon!
Flee from the Chaldeans!
With a voice of singing,
Declare, proclaim this,
Utter it to the end of the earth;
Say, “The Lord has (B)redeemed
His servant Jacob!”

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20 Leave Babylon,
    flee(A) from the Babylonians!
Announce this with shouts of joy(B)
    and proclaim it.
Send it out to the ends of the earth;(C)
    say, “The Lord has redeemed(D) his servant Jacob.”

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11 And have (A)no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather [a]expose them.

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  1. Ephesians 5:11 reprove

11 Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness,(A) but rather expose them.

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13 And Haggai said, “If one who is (A)unclean because of a dead body touches any of these, will it be unclean?”

So the priests answered and said, “It shall be unclean.”

14 Then Haggai answered and said, (B)“ ‘So is this people, and so is this nation before Me,’ says the Lord, ‘and so is every work of their hands; and what they offer there is unclean.

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13 Then Haggai said, “If a person defiled by contact with a dead body touches one of these things, does it become defiled?”

“Yes,” the priests replied, “it becomes defiled.(A)

14 Then Haggai said, “‘So it is with this people(B) and this nation in my sight,’ declares the Lord. ‘Whatever they do and whatever they offer(C) there is defiled.

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(A)King Cyrus also brought out the articles of the house of the Lord, (B)which Nebuchadnezzar had taken from Jerusalem and put in the [a]temple of his gods; and Cyrus king of Persia brought them out by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and counted them out to (C)Sheshbazzar the prince of Judah. This is the number of them: thirty gold platters, one thousand silver platters, twenty-nine knives, 10 thirty gold basins, four hundred and ten silver basins of a similar kind, and one thousand other articles. 11 All the articles of gold and silver were five thousand four hundred. All these Sheshbazzar took with the captives who were brought from Babylon to Jerusalem.

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  1. Ezra 1:7 Lit. house

Moreover, King Cyrus brought out the articles belonging to the temple of the Lord, which Nebuchadnezzar had carried away from Jerusalem and had placed in the temple of his god.[a](A) Cyrus king of Persia had them brought by Mithredath the treasurer, who counted them out to Sheshbazzar(B) the prince of Judah.

This was the inventory:

gold dishes30
silver dishes1,000
silver pans[b]29
10 gold bowls30
matching silver bowls410
other articles1,000

11 In all, there were 5,400 articles of gold and of silver. Sheshbazzar brought all these along with the exiles when they came up from Babylon to Jerusalem.

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  1. Ezra 1:7 Or gods
  2. Ezra 1:9 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.

And I heard another voice from heaven saying, (A)“Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues.

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Warning to Escape Babylon’s Judgment

Then I heard another voice from heaven say:

“‘Come out of her, my people,’[a](A)
    so that you will not share in her sins,
    so that you will not receive any of her plagues;(B)

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  1. Revelation 18:4 Jer. 51:45

Living Before the World

11 Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts (A)which war against the soul,

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Living Godly Lives in a Pagan Society

11 Dear friends,(A) I urge you, as foreigners and exiles,(B) to abstain from sinful desires,(C) which wage war against your soul.(D)

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14 as obedient children, not (A)conforming yourselves to the former lusts, as in your ignorance; 15 (B)but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, 16 because it is written, (C)“Be holy, for I am holy.”

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14 As obedient(A) children, do not conform(B) to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance.(C) 15 But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do;(D) 16 for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.”[a](E)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 1:16 Lev. 11:44,45; 19:2

The Law of Love

14 I know and am convinced by the Lord Jesus (A)that there is nothing unclean of itself; but to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

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14 I am convinced, being fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself.(A) But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for that person it is unclean.(B)

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28 Then he said to them, “You know how (A)unlawful it is for a Jewish man to keep company with or go to one of another nation. But (B)God has shown me that I should not call any man common or unclean.

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28 He said to them: “You are well aware that it is against our law for a Jew to associate with or visit a Gentile.(A) But God has shown me that I should not call anyone impure or unclean.(B)

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14 But Peter said, “Not so, Lord! (A)For I have never eaten anything common or unclean.”

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14 “Surely not, Lord!”(A) Peter replied. “I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.”(B)

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