Numbers 35:34
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34 You shall not defile the land in which you live, in which I also dwell, for I the Lord dwell among the Israelites.”(A)
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Numbers 5:3
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3 you shall put out both male and female, putting them outside the camp; they must not defile their camp, where I dwell among them.”(A)
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Psalm 135:21
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21 Blessed be the Lord from Zion,
he who resides in Jerusalem.
Praise the Lord!(A)
Revelation 21:27
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27 But nothing unclean will enter it, nor anyone who practices abomination or falsehood, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.(A)
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2 Corinthians 6:16-17
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16 What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we[a] are the temple of the living God, as God said,
“I will live in them[b] and walk among them,
and I will be their God,
and they shall be my people.(A)
17 Therefore come out from them,
and be separate from them, says the Lord,
and touch nothing unclean;
then I will welcome you,(B)
Hosea 9:3
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3 They shall not remain in the land of the Lord,
but Ephraim shall return to Egypt,
and in Assyria they shall eat unclean food.(A)
Isaiah 57:15
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15 For thus says the high and lofty one
who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy:
I dwell in the high and holy place
and also with those who are contrite and humble in spirit,
to revive the spirit of the humble
and to revive the heart of the contrite.(A)
Isaiah 8:12
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12 “Do not call conspiracy all that this people calls conspiracy, and do not fear what it fears or be in dread.(A)
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Psalm 132:14
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14 “This is my resting place forever;
here I will reside, for I have desired it.
1 Kings 6:13
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13 I will dwell among the Israelites and will not forsake my people Israel.”(A)
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Leviticus 20:24-26
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24 But I have said to you, ‘You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the Lord your God; I have separated you from the peoples.’(A) 25 You shall therefore make a distinction between the clean animal and the unclean and between the unclean bird and the clean; you shall not bring abomination on yourselves by animal or by bird or by anything with which the ground teems, which I have set apart for you to hold unclean.(B) 26 You shall be holy to me, for I the Lord am holy, and I have separated you from the other peoples to be mine.(C)
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Exodus 29:45-46
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45 I will dwell among the Israelites, and I will be their God.(A) 46 And they shall know that I am the Lord their God, who brought them out of the land of Egypt that I might dwell among them; I am the Lord their God.(B)
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Exodus 25:8
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8 And they shall make me a sanctuary so that I may dwell among them.(A)
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Leviticus 18:24-25
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24 “Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, for by all these practices the nations I am casting out before you have defiled themselves.(A) 25 Thus the land became defiled, and I punished it for its iniquity, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.(B)
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