Deuteronomy 14:6

Depart! Depart! Go out from there! Touch no unclean thing! Go out from among her! Cleanse yourselves, you who carry Yahweh’s vessels.

I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, that you have no participation in her sins, and that you don’t receive of her plagues,

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

He spoke to the congregation, saying, “Depart, please, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be consumed in all their sins!”

Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding.”

It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarreling.

The children of Israel who had returned out of the captivity, and all who had separated themselves to them from the filthiness of the nations of the land, to seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, ate,

Now therefore make confession to Yahweh, the God of your fathers, and do his pleasure; and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the foreign women.”

Don’t incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity. Don’t let me eat of their delicacies.

to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things,

“Flee out of the middle of Babylon! Everyone save his own life! Don’t be cut off in her iniquity; for it is the time of Yahweh’s vengeance. He will render to her a recompense.

With many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation!”

These are those who cause divisions and are sensual, not having the Spirit.

“Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment!”

“Get away from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment!” They fell on their faces.

I will walk in liberty, for I have sought your precepts.

My son, don’t walk on the path with them. Keep your foot from their path,

Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

The heart knows its own bitterness and joy; he will not share these with a stranger.

He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets; therefore don’t keep company with him who opens wide his lips.

My son, fear Yahweh and the king. Don’t join those who are rebellious;

“Flee out of the middle of Babylon! Go out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the male goats before the flocks.

Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

“Don’t handle, nor taste, nor touch”

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.

but not the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden. God has said, ‘You shall not eat of it. You shall not touch it, lest you die.’ ”

God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also withheld you from sinning against me. Therefore I didn’t allow you to touch her.

For how would people know that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Isn’t it that you go with us, so that we are separated, I and your people, from all the people who are on the surface of the earth?”

“ ‘The meat that touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten. It shall be burned with fire. As for the meat, everyone who is clean may eat it;

You shall not eat their meat. You shall not touch their carcasses. They are unclean to you.

“ ‘By these you will become unclean: whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening.

But I have said to you, “You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey.” I am Yahweh your God, who has separated you from the peoples.

“He who touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days.

For from the top of the rocks I see him. From the hills I see him. Behold, it is a people that dwells alone, and shall not be listed among the nations.

At that time Yahweh set apart the tribe of Levi to bear the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, to stand before Yahweh to minister to him, and to bless in his name, to this day.

that they not teach you to follow all their abominations, which they have done for their gods; so would you sin against Yahweh your God.

But as for you, only keep yourselves from what is devoted to destruction, lest when you have devoted it, you take of the devoted thing; so you would make the camp of Israel accursed and trouble it.

that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.”

Saul said to the Kenites, “Go, depart, go down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them; for you showed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt.” So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.

David said to Achish, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, let them give me a place in one of the cities in the country, that I may dwell there. For why should your servant dwell in the royal city with you?”

But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way of the garden house. Jehu followed after him, and said, “Strike him also in the chariot!” They struck him at the ascent of Gur, which is by Ibleam. He fled to Megiddo, and died there.

I have not sat with deceitful men, neither will I go in with hypocrites.

How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.

If only you, God, would kill the wicked. Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men!

so as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;

Happy is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gets understanding.

Get wisdom. Get understanding. Don’t forget, and don’t deviate from the words of my mouth.

Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of the foolish is near ruin.

The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam, therefore stop contention before quarreling breaks out.

A man who isolates himself pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment.

When the mocker is punished, the simple gains wisdom. When the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge.

Don’t fret yourself because of evildoers, neither be envious of the wicked;

Like one who grabs a dog’s ears is one who passes by and meddles in a quarrel not his own.

I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.

I didn’t sit in the assembly of those who make merry and rejoice. I sat alone because of your hand, for you have filled me with indignation.

He measured it on the four sides. It had a wall around it, the length five hundred, and the width five hundred, to make a separation between that which was holy and that which was common.

and to speak to the priests of the house of Yahweh of Armies, and to the prophets, saying, “Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?”

He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.

Early in the morning, while it was still dark, he rose up and went out, and departed into a deserted place, and prayed there.

He said to them, “To you is given the mystery of God’s Kingdom, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,

and said to him, ‘Get out of your land and away from your relatives, and come into a land which I will show you.’

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God,

Therefore “ ‘Come out from among them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.

He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away.”

Therefore accept one another, even as Christ also accepted you, to the glory of God.