“Separate yourselves from among this community, that I may consume them in an instant.”

When they heard the law, they removed from Israel all who were of mixed ancestry.

God saw that the light was good, so God separated the light from the darkness.

God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters and let it separate water from water.

to preside over the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.

as well as to distinguish between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean,

And so you are to separate the Levites from among the Israelites, and the Levites will be mine.

Then Moses selected three cities in the Transjordan, toward the east.

you must set apart for yourselves three cities in the middle of your land that the Lord your God is giving you as a possession.

Therefore, I am commanding you to set apart for yourselves three cities.

Then I set apart twelve of the leading priests, together with Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brothers,

Those truly of Israelite descent separated from all the foreigners, standing and confessing their sins and the iniquities of their ancestors.

Therefore you must distinguish between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean bird and the clean, and you must not make yourselves detestable by means of an animal or bird or anything that creeps on the ground – creatures I have distinguished for you as unclean.

No foreigner who becomes a follower of the Lord should say, ‘The Lord will certainly exclude me from his people.’ The eunuch should not say, ‘Look, I am like a dried-up tree.’”

So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. It was so.

God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them be signs to indicate seasons and days and years,

He must bring them to the priest and present first the one that is for a sin offering. The priest must pinch its head at the nape of its neck, but must not sever the head from the body.

to distinguish between the unclean and the clean, between the living creatures that may be eaten and the living creatures that must not be eaten.’”

You must be holy to me because I, the Lord, am holy, and I have set you apart from the other peoples to be mine.

The Lord will single him out for judgment from all the tribes of Israel according to all the curses of the covenant written in this scroll of the law.