Do not carry any loads out of your houses or do any work on the Sabbath day. ¹  But observe the Sabbath day as a day set apart to the Lord, ²  as I commanded your ancestors. ³ 

The Lord says, ¹  ‘You must make sure to obey me. You must not bring any loads through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day. You must set the Sabbath day apart to me. You must not do any work on that day.

I will punish those people who have violated their covenant with me. I will make them like the calf they cut in two and passed between its pieces. ¹  I will do so because they did not keep the terms of the covenant they made in my presence. ² 

I also gave them my Sabbaths ¹  as a reminder of our relationship, ²  so that they would know that I, the Lord, sanctify them. ³ 

This will be for the priests who are set apart from the descendants of Zadok who kept my charge and did not go astray when the people of Israel strayed off, like the Levites did. ¹ 

And now I entrust ¹  you to God and to the message ²  of his grace. This message ³  is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

When the argument became ¹  so great the commanding officer ²  feared that they would tear Paul to pieces, ³  he ordered the detachment ⁴  to go down, take him away from them by force, ⁵  and bring him into the barracks. ⁶ 

Some of you once lived this way. ¹  But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ ²  and by the Spirit of our God.

that you were at that time without the Messiah, ¹  alienated from the citizenship of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, ²  having no hope and without God in the world.

Then Moses went down from the mountain to the people and sanctified the people, and they washed their clothes.

Let the priests also, who approach the Lord, sanctify themselves, lest the Lord break through ¹  against them.”

“You are to take the ram of the consecration and cook ¹  its meat in a holy place. ² 

There I will meet ¹  with the Israelites, and it will be set apart as holy by my glory. ² 

So you are to sanctify them, ¹  and they will be most holy; ²  anything that touches them will be holy. ³ 

“‘You must not approach a woman in her menstrual impurity ¹  to have sexual intercourse with her.

In the fourth year all its fruit will be holy, praise offerings ¹  to the Lord.

These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the anointed ¹  priests, whom he consecrated ²  to minister as priests. ³ 

and you eat ¹  some of the food of the land, you must offer up a raised offering ²  to the Lord.

You must be certain to tithe ¹  all the produce of your seed that comes from the field year after year.

The son ¹  of Carmi: Achan, ²  who brought the disaster on Israel when he stole what was devoted to God. ³