“Separate yourselves ¹  from among this community, ²  that I may consume them in an instant.”

All the days of his separation he must be holy to the Lord.

A perverse person ¹  spreads dissension, and a gossip separates the closest friends. ² 

Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

All ¹  the nations will be assembled before him, and he will separate people one from another like a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

Those truly of Israelite descent ¹  separated from all the foreigners, ²  standing and confessing their sins and the iniquities of their ancestors. ³ 

He must rededicate ¹  to the Lord the days of his separation and bring a male lamb in its first year as a reparation offering, ²  but the former days will not be counted ³  because his separation ⁴  was defiled.

God saw ¹  that the light was good, ²  so God separated ³  the light from the darkness.

God said, “Let there be an expanse ¹  in the midst of the waters and let it separate water ²  from water.

to preside over the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. ¹  God saw that it was good.

“‘All the days that he separates himself to the Lord he must not contact ¹  a dead body. ² 

And so ¹  you are to separate the Levites from among the Israelites, and the Levites will be mine.

From the Israelites’ half-share that Moses had separated from the fighting men, ¹ 

“‘All the days of the vow ¹  of his separation no razor may be used on his head ²  until the time ³  is fulfilled for which he separated himself to the Lord. He will be holy, ⁴  and he must let ⁵  the locks of hair on his head grow long.

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

They lock tightly together, one to the next; ¹  they cling together and cannot be separated.

Now give praise to the Lord God of your fathers, and do his will. Separate yourselves from the local residents ¹  and from these foreign wives.”

The one who forgives ¹  an offense seeks ²  love, but whoever repeats a matter separates close friends. ³ 

It will be this way at the end of the age. Angels will come and separate the evil from the righteous

“Speak to the Israelites, and tell them, ‘When either a man or a woman ¹  takes a special vow, ²  to take a vow ³  as a Nazirite, ⁴  to separate ⁵  himself to the Lord,