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Numbers 6:2
Say to the children of Israel, If a man or a woman takes an oath to keep himself separate and give himself to the Lord;

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Genesis 37:28
And some traders from Midian went by; so pulling Joseph up out of the hole, they gave him to the Ishmaelites for twenty bits of silver, and they took him to Egypt.

Judges 6:2
And Midian was stronger than Israel; and because of the Midianites, the children of Israel made holes for themselves in the mountains, and hollows in the rocks, and strong places.

Psalms 105:17
He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was given as a servant for a price:

Psalms 105:18
His feet were fixed in chains; his neck was put in iron bands;

Psalms 105:19
Till the time when his word came true; he was tested by the word of the Lord.

Psalms 105:20
The king sent men to take off his chains; even the ruler of the people, who let him go free.

Psalms 105:21
He made him lord of his house, and ruler over everything he had;

Psalms 105:22
To give his chiefs teaching at his pleasure, and so that his law-givers might get wisdom from him.

Isaiah 66:5
Give ear to the word of the Lord, you who are in fear at his word: your countrymen, hating you, and driving you out because of my name, have said, Let the Lord's glory be made clear, so that we may see your joy; but they will be put to shame.

Acts 7:9
And the brothers, moved with envy against Joseph, gave him to the Egyptians for money: but God was with him,

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Exodus 33:16
For is not the fact of your going with us the sign that I and this people have grace in your eyes, so that we, that is, I and your people, are separate from all other people on the face of the earth?

Leviticus 20:26
And you are to be holy to me; for I the Lord am holy and have made you separate from the nations, so that you may be my people.

Proverbs 18:1
He who keeps himself separate for his private purpose goes against all good sense.

2 Corinthians 6:16
And what agreement has the house of God with images? for we are a house of the living God; even as God has said, I will be living among them, and walking with them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.

Hebrews 7:27
Who has no need to make offerings for sins every day, like those high priests, first for himself, and then for the people; because he did this once and for ever when he made an offering of himself.

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Leviticus 10:9
Take no wine, or strong drink, you or your sons with you, when you go into the Tent of meeting, that it may not be the cause of death to you; this is an order for ever through all your generations.

Ezra 10:5
Then Ezra got up, and made the chiefs of the priests and the Levites and all Israel take an oath that they would do this. So they took an oath.

Jeremiah 35:6
But they said, We will take no wine: for Jonadab, the son of Rechab our father, gave us orders, saying, You are to take no wine, you or your sons, for ever:

Matthew 11:18
For John came, taking no food or drink, and they say, He has an evil spirit.

Luke 7:33
For John the Baptist came, taking no food or drink, and you say, He has an evil spirit.

Romans 14:21
It is better not to take meat or wine or to do anything which might be a cause of trouble to your brother.

Colossians 2:16
For this reason let no man be your judge in any question of food or drink or feast days or new moons or Sabbaths:

1 Timothy 5:23
Do not take only water as your drink, but take a little wine for the good of your stomach, and because you are frequently ill.

Hebrews 9:10
Because they are only rules of the flesh, of meats and drinks and washings, which have their place till the time comes when things will be put right.

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Leviticus 21:1
And the Lord said to Moses, Say to the priests, the sons of Aaron, Let no man make himself unclean for the dead among his people;

Leviticus 21:2
But only for his near relations, for his mother or his father, his son or his daughter, and his brother;

Leviticus 21:3
And for his sister, a virgin, for she is his near relation and has had no husband, he may make himself unclean.

Leviticus 21:4
But let him, being a chief among his people, not make himself unclean in such a way as to put shame on himself.

Leviticus 21:10
And he who is the chief priest among his brothers, on whose head the holy oil has been put, who is marked out to put on the holy robes, may not let his hair go loose or have his clothing out of order as a sign of sorrow.

Leviticus 21:11
He may not go near any dead body or make himself unclean for his father or his mother;

Psalms 81:1
To the chief music-maker; put to the Gittith. Of Asaph. Make a song to God our strength: make a glad cry to the God of Jacob.

Hosea 9:4
They will give no wine offering to the Lord, they will not make offerings ready for him; their bread will be like the bread of those in sorrow; all who take it will be unclean, because their bread will be only for their desire, it will not come into the house of the Lord.

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Numbers 8:21
And the Levites were made clean from sin, and their clothing was washed, and Aaron gave them for a wave offering before the Lord; and Aaron took away their sin and made them clean.

Psalms 11:7
For the Lord is upright; he is a lover of righteousness: the upright will see his face.

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Numbers 15:8
And when you make ready a young ox for a burned or other offering, or for the effecting of an oath, or for peace-offerings to the Lord:

Numbers 30:4
If her father, hearing of her oath or the undertaking she has given, says nothing to her, then all her oaths and every undertaking she has given will have force.

Job 22:27
You will make your prayer to him, and be answered; and you will give effect to your oaths.

Psalms 50:14
Make an offering of praise to God; keep the agreements which you have made with the Most High;

Psalms 50:15
Let your voice come up to me in the day of trouble; I will be your saviour, so that you may give glory to me.

Ecclesiastes 5:4
When you take an oath before God, put it quickly into effect, because he has no pleasure in the foolish; keep the oath you have taken.

Ecclesiastes 5:5
It is better not to take an oath than to take an oath and not keep it.

Ecclesiastes 5:6
Let not your mouth make your flesh do evil. And say not before the angel, It was an error. So that God may not be angry with your words and put an end to the work of your hands.

Jonah 1:16
Then great was the men's fear of the Lord; and they made an offering to the Lord and took oaths to him.

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Numbers 8:14
So you are to make the Levites separate from the children of Israel, and the Levites will be mine.

Deuteronomy 10:8
At that time the Lord had the tribe of Levi marked out to take up the ark of the Lord's agreement, to be before the Lord and to do his work and to give blessings in his name, to this day.

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Numbers 21:2
Then Israel made an oath to the Lord, and said, If you will give up this people into my hands, then I will send complete destruction on all their towns.

Judges 11:30
And Jephthah took an oath to the Lord, and said, If you will give the children of Ammon into my hands,

Judges 11:31
Then whoever comes out from the door of my house, meeting me when I come back in peace from the children of Ammon, will be the Lord's and I will give him as a burned offering.

Judges 11:39
And at the end of two months she went back to her father, who did with her as he had said in his oath: and she had never been touched by a man. So it became a rule in Israel,

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Judges 15:13
And they said, No; we will take you and give you up into their hands, but truly we will not put you to death. So knotting two new cords round him they took him up from the rock.

Judges 16:17
And opening all his heart to her, he said to her, My head has never been touched by a blade, for I have been separate to God from the day of my birth: if my hair is cut off, then my strength will go from me and I will become feeble, and will be like any other man.

1 Corinthians 11:14
Does it not seem natural to you that if a man has long hair, it is a cause of shame to him?

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Jeremiah 7:29
Let your hair be cut off, O Jerusalem, and let it go, and let a song of grief go up on the open hilltops; for the Lord is turned away from the generation of his wrath and has given them up.

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Daniel 1:11
Then Daniel said to the keeper in whose care the captain of the unsexed servants had put Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah:

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Daniel 9:24
Seventy weeks have been fixed for your people and your holy town, to let wrongdoing be complete and sin come to its full limit, and for the clearing away of evil-doing and the coming in of eternal righteousness: so that the vision and the word of the prophet may be stamped as true, and to put the holy oil on a most holy place.

Romans 3:21
But now without the law there is a revelation of the righteousness of God, to which witness is given by the law and the prophets;

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Matthew 5:46
For if you have love for those who have love for you, what credit is it to you? do not the tax-farmers the same?

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Matthew 5:47
And if you say, Good day, to your brothers only, what do you do more than others? do not even the Gentiles the same?

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Matthew 1:20
But when he was giving thought to these things, an angel of the Lord came to him in a dream, saying, Joseph, son of David, have no fear of taking Mary as your wife; because that which is in her body is of the Holy Spirit.

Luke 1:3
It seemed good to me, having made observation, with great care, of the direction of events in their order, to put the facts in writing for you, most noble Theophilus;

Luke 1:4
So that you might have certain knowledge of those things about which you were given teaching.

Luke 1:5
In the days of Herod, king of Judaea, there was a certain priest, by name Zacharias, of the order of Abijah; and he had a wife of the family of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth.

Luke 1:6
They were upright in the eyes of God, keeping all the rules and orders of God, and doing no wrong.

Luke 1:7
And they were without children, because Elisabeth had never given birth, and they were at that time very old.

Luke 1:8
Now it came about that in his turn he was acting as priest before God,

Luke 1:9
And as was the way of the priests, he had to go into the Temple to see to the burning of perfumes.

Luke 1:10
And all the people were offering prayers outside, at the time of the burning of perfumes.

Luke 1:11
And he saw an angel of the Lord in his place on the right side of the altar.

Luke 1:12
And Zacharias was troubled when he saw him, and fear came on him.

Luke 1:13
But the angel said, Have no fear, Zacharias, for your prayer has come to the ears of God, and your wife Elisabeth will have a son, and his name will be John.

Luke 1:14
And you will be glad and have great delight; and numbers of people will have joy at his birth.

Luke 1:16
And through him great numbers of the children of Israel will be turned to the Lord their God.

Luke 1:17
And he will go before his face in the spirit and power of Elijah, turning the hearts of fathers to their children, and wrongdoers to the way of righteousness; to make ready a people whose hearts have been turned to the Lord.

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1 Corinthians 7:26
In my opinion then, because of the present trouble, it is good for a man to keep as he is.

1 Corinthians 7:27
If you are married to a wife, make no attempt to get free from her: if you are free from a wife, do not take a wife.

1 Corinthians 7:28
If you get married it is not a sin; and if an unmarried woman gets married it is not a sin. But those who do so will have trouble in the flesh. But I will not be hard on you.

1 Corinthians 7:29
But I say this, my brothers, the time is short; and from now it will be wise for those who have wives to be as if they had them not;

1 Corinthians 7:30
And for those who are in sorrow, to give no signs of it; and for those who are glad, to give no signs of joy; and for those who are getting property, to be as if they had nothing;

1 Corinthians 7:31
And for those who make use of the world, not to be using it fully; for this world's way of life will quickly come to an end.

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1 Peter 1:22
And as you have made your souls clean, being ruled by what is true, and loving one another without deceit, see that your love is warm and from the heart:

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