11 (A)Depart, depart, go out from there;
    touch no unclean thing;
go out from the midst of her; purify yourselves,
    (B)you who bear the vessels of the Lord.

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17 Therefore (A)go out from their midst,
    and be separate from them, says the Lord,
and touch no unclean thing;
    then I will welcome you,

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Up! Up! (A)Flee from the land of the north, declares the Lord. For I have (B)spread you abroad as the four winds of the heavens, declares the Lord. (C)Up! Escape to Zion, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon.

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20 (A)Go out from Babylon, flee from (B)Chaldea,
    declare this (C)with a shout of joy, proclaim it,
send it out to the end of the earth;
    say, (D)“The Lord has redeemed his servant Jacob!”

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11 (A)Take no part in the (B)unfruitful (C)works of darkness, but instead (D)expose them.

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13 Then Haggai said, (A)“If someone who is unclean by contact with a dead body (B)touches any of these, does it become unclean?” The priests answered and said, “It does become unclean.” 14 Then Haggai answered and said, (C)“So is it with this people, and with this nation before me, declares the Lord, and so with every work of their hands. And what they offer there is unclean.

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16 (A)Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean;
    remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes;
(B)cease to do evil,

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(A)Cyrus the king also brought out the vessels of the house of the Lord that (B)Nebuchadnezzar had carried away from Jerusalem and placed in the house of his gods. Cyrus king of Persia brought these out in the charge of (C)Mithredath the treasurer, who counted them out to (D)Sheshbazzar the prince of Judah. And this was the number of them: (E)30 basins of gold, 1,000 basins of silver, 29 censers, 10 30 bowls of gold, 410 bowls of silver, and 1,000 other vessels; 11 all the vessels of gold and of silver were 5,400. All these did Sheshbazzar bring up, when the exiles were brought up from Babylonia to Jerusalem.

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Then I heard another voice from heaven saying,

(A)“Come out of her, my people,
    lest you take part in her sins,
lest you share in her plagues;

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11 Beloved, I urge you (A)as sojourners and exiles (B)to abstain from the passions of the flesh, (C)which wage war against your soul.

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14 As obedient children, (A)do not be conformed to the passions (B)of your former ignorance, 15 but (C)as he who called you is holy, you also be holy (D)in all your conduct, 16 since it is written, (E)“You shall be holy, for I am holy.”

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14 I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus (A)that nothing is unclean in itself, (B)but it is unclean for anyone who thinks it unclean.

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28 And he said to them, “You yourselves know how unlawful it is for a Jew (A)to associate with or to visit anyone of another nation, but (B)God has shown me that I should not call any person common or unclean.

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14 But Peter said, “By no means, Lord; (A)for I have never eaten anything that is (B)common or (C)unclean.”

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23 (A)They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and (B)show them how to distinguish between the unclean and the clean.

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45 “Go out of the midst of her, (A)my people!
    Let every one save his life
    from (B)the fierce anger of the Lord!

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(A)“Flee from the midst of Babylon;
    let every one save his life!
(B)Be not cut off in her punishment,
    (C)for this is the time of the Lord's vengeance,
    the repayment he is rendering her.

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(A)“Flee from the midst of Babylon, (B)and go out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as male goats before the flock.

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25 And I weighed out to them the (A)silver and the gold and the vessels, the offering for the house of our God that the king and his (B)counselors and his lords and all Israel there present had offered. 26 (C)I weighed out into their hand 650 talents[a] of silver, and silver vessels worth 200 talents,[b] and 100 talents of gold, 27 20 bowls of gold worth 1,000 darics,[c] and two vessels of fine bright bronze as precious as gold. 28 And I said to them, (D)“You are holy to the Lord, and (E)the vessels are holy, and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering to the Lord, the God of your fathers. 29 Guard them and keep them until you weigh them before the chief priests and the Levites and the heads of fathers' houses in Israel at Jerusalem, (F)within the chambers of the house of the Lord.” 30 So the priests and the Levites (G)took over the weight of the silver and the gold and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem, to the house of our God.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 8:26 A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms
  2. Ezra 8:26 Revocalization; the number is missing in the Masoretic Text
  3. Ezra 8:27 A daric was a coin weighing about 1/4 ounce or 8.5 grams

“Speak to Aaron and his sons so that they (A)abstain from the holy things of the people of Israel, which they (B)dedicate to me, so that they do not (C)profane my holy name: I am the Lord. Say to them, ‘If any one of all your offspring throughout your generations approaches the holy things that the people of Israel dedicate to the Lord, while (D)he has an uncleanness, that person shall be cut off from my presence: I am the Lord. None of the offspring of Aaron who has a leprous disease or a (E)discharge may eat of the holy things (F)until he is clean. (G)Whoever touches anything that is unclean through contact with the dead or (H)a man who has had an emission of semen, and (I)whoever touches a swarming thing by which he may be made unclean or (J)a person from whom he may take uncleanness, whatever his uncleanness may be— the person who touches such a thing shall be unclean until the evening and shall not eat of the holy things unless he has (K)bathed his body in water. When the sun goes down he shall be clean, and afterward he may eat of the holy things, because (L)they are his food. (M)He shall not eat what dies of itself or is torn by beasts, and so make himself unclean by it: I am the Lord.’ They shall therefore keep my charge, (N)lest they bear sin for it and die thereby when they profane it: (O)I am the Lord who sanctifies them.

10 (P)“A lay person shall not eat of a holy thing; no foreign guest of the priest or hired worker shall eat of a holy thing, 11 but if a priest buys a slave[a] as his property for money, the slave[b] may eat of it, and (Q)anyone born in his house may eat of his food. 12 If a priest's daughter marries a layman, she shall not eat of the contribution of the holy things. 13 But if a priest's daughter is widowed or divorced and has no child and (R)returns to her father's house, (S)as in her youth, she may eat of her father's food; yet no lay person shall eat of it. 14 (T)And if anyone eats of a holy thing unintentionally, he shall add (U)the fifth of its value to it and give the holy thing to the priest. 15 They (V)shall not profane the holy things of the people of Israel, which they contribute to the Lord, 16 and so cause them (W)to bear iniquity and guilt, by eating their holy things: (X)for I am the Lord who sanctifies them.”

Acceptable Offerings

17 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 18 “Speak to Aaron and his sons and all the people of Israel and say to them, (Y)When any one of the house of Israel or of the sojourners in Israel presents a burnt offering as his offering, for any of their vows or freewill offerings that they offer to the Lord, 19 if it is to be accepted for you it shall be a (Z)male without blemish, of the bulls or the sheep or the goats. 20 (AA)You shall not offer anything that has a blemish, for it will not be acceptable for you. 21 And when anyone (AB)offers a sacrifice of peace offerings to the Lord (AC)to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering from the herd or from the flock, to be accepted it must be perfect; there shall be no blemish in it. 22 Animals (AD)blind or disabled or mutilated or having a discharge or (AE)an itch or scabs you shall not offer to the Lord or give them to the Lord as a food (AF)offering on the altar. 23 You may present a bull or a lamb that has a part (AG)too long or too short for a freewill offering, but for a vow offering it cannot be accepted. 24 Any animal that has its testicles bruised or crushed or torn or cut you shall not offer to the Lord; you shall not do it within your land, 25 neither shall you offer as (AH)the bread of your God any such animals gotten from a foreigner. Since there is a (AI)blemish in them, because of their mutilation, they will not be accepted for you.”

26 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 27 (AJ)“When an ox or sheep or goat is born, it shall remain seven days with its mother, and from the eighth day on it shall be acceptable as a food offering to the Lord. 28 But you shall not kill an ox or a sheep (AK)and her young in one day. 29 And when you sacrifice a (AL)sacrifice of thanksgiving to the Lord, you shall sacrifice it so that you may be accepted. 30 It shall be eaten on the same day; (AM)you shall leave none of it until morning: I am the Lord.

31 (AN)“So you shall keep my commandments and do them: I am the Lord. 32 (AO)And you shall not profane my holy name, that (AP)I may be sanctified among the people of Israel. (AQ)I am the Lord who sanctifies you, 33 who brought you out of the land of Egypt (AR)to be your God: I am the Lord.”

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 22:11 Or servant; twice in this verse
  2. Leviticus 22:11 Hebrew he

47 (A)to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean and between the living creature that may be eaten and the living creature that may not be eaten.

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26 Every animal that parts the hoof but is not cloven-footed or does not chew the cud is unclean to you. Everyone who touches them shall be unclean. 27 And all that walk on their paws, among the animals that go on all fours, are unclean to you. Whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening,

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Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what the Lord has said: ‘Among (A)those who are near me (B)I will be sanctified, and before all the people I will be glorified.’” (C)And Aaron held his peace.

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or (A)if anyone touches an unclean thing, whether a carcass of an unclean wild animal or a carcass of unclean livestock or a carcass of unclean swarming things, and it is hidden from him and he has become unclean, and he realizes his guilt; or if he touches (B)human uncleanness, of whatever sort the uncleanness may be with which one becomes unclean, and it is hidden from him, when he comes to know it, and realizes his guilt;

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(A)you yourselves like living stones are being built up as (B)a spiritual house, to be (C)a holy priesthood, (D)to offer spiritual sacrifices (E)acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

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