16     gather the people.
(A)Consecrate the congregation;
    assemble the elders;
(B)gather the children,
    even nursing infants.
(C)Let the bridegroom leave his room,
    and the bride her chamber.

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13 Meanwhile all Judah stood before the Lord, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.

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(A)Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, (B)so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

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and said to them, “Hear me, Levites! Now (A)consecrate yourselves, and consecrate the house of the Lord, the God of your fathers, and carry out the filth[a] from the Holy Place.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 29:5 Hebrew impurity

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

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22 Also let the priests who come near to the Lord (A)consecrate themselves, lest the Lord (B)break out against them.”

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10 the Lord said to Moses, “Go to the people and (A)consecrate them today and tomorrow, and let them (B)wash their garments

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15 And Jesus said to them, (A)“Can the wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? (B)The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and (C)then they will fast.

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11 (A)On that day (B)the mourning in Jerusalem will be as great (C)as the mourning for Hadad-rimmon in the plain of Megiddo. 12 The land shall mourn, (D)each family[a] by itself: the family of the house of David by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of (E)Nathan by itself, and their wives by themselves; 13 the family of the house of Levi by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of (F)the Shimeites by itself, and their wives by themselves; 14 and all the families that are left, each by itself, and their wives by themselves.

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  1. Zechariah 12:12 Or clan; throughout verses 12–14

And he issued a proclamation and published through Nineveh, (A)“By the decree of the king and his nobles: Let neither man nor (B)beast, herd nor flock, taste anything. Let them not feed or drink water, but let man and (C)beast be covered with sackcloth, and let them call out mightily to God. (D)Let everyone turn from his evil way and from (E)the violence that is in his hands.

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14 (A)Consecrate a fast;
    (B)call a solemn assembly.
Gather (C)the elders
    and (D)all the inhabitants of the land
to the house of the Lord your God,
    and cry out to the Lord.

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    (A)which comes out like (B)a bridegroom leaving his chamber,
    and, like a strong man, runs its course with joy.

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And when the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send and (A)consecrate them, and he would rise early in the morning and (B)offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my children have sinned, and (C)cursed[a] God in their hearts.” Thus Job did continually.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 1:5 The Hebrew word bless is used euphemistically for curse in 1:5, 11; 2:5, 9

And slaughter the Passover lamb, and (A)consecrate yourselves, and prepare for your brothers, to do according to the word of the Lord by[a] Moses.”

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  1. 2 Chronicles 35:6 Hebrew by the hand of

19 (A)who sets his heart to seek God, the Lord, the God of his fathers, even though not according to the sanctuary's rules of cleanness.”[a]

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  1. 2 Chronicles 30:19 Hebrew not according to the cleanness of holiness

17 For there were many in the assembly who had not consecrated themselves. Therefore the Levites had to slaughter the Passover lamb for everyone who was not clean, to consecrate it to the Lord.

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23 Then the goats for the sin offering were brought to the king and the assembly, (A)and they laid their hands on them, 24 and the priests slaughtered them and made a sin offering with their blood on the altar, (B)to make atonement for all Israel. For the king commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made for all Israel.

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13 Get up! Consecrate the people and say, (A)‘Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow; for thus says the Lord, God of Israel, “There are devoted things in your midst, O Israel. You cannot stand before your enemies until you take away the devoted things from among you.”

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10 “You are standing today, all of you, before the Lord your God: the heads of your tribes,[a] your elders, and your officers, all the men of Israel, 11 your little ones, your wives, and the (A)sojourner who is in your camp, from (B)the one who chops your wood to the one who draws your water,

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  1. Deuteronomy 29:10 Septuagint, Syriac; Hebrew your heads, your tribes

15 And he said to the people, “Be ready for the (A)third day; (B)do not go near a woman.”

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