Abraham separated seven ewe lambs from the flock.

And Abimelech said to Abraham, “Why have you separated these seven ewe lambs?”

Jacob separated the lambs and made the flocks face the streaked and the completely dark sheep in Laban’s flocks. Then he set his own stock apart and didn’t put them with Laban’s sheep.

If it was actually torn apart by a wild animal, he is to bring it as evidence; he does not have to make restitution for the torn carcass.

“Whoever sacrifices to any gods, except the Lord alone, is to be set apart for destruction.

“You are to make upright planks of acacia wood for the tabernacle.

“Tell the Israelites: You must observe My Sabbaths, for it is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations, so that you will know that I am Yahweh who sets you apart.

He made upright planks of acacia wood for the tabernacle.

He is to sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven times to cleanse and set it apart from the Israelites’ impurities.

Keep My statutes and do them; I am Yahweh who sets you apart.

And I promised you: You will inherit their land, since I will give it to you to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey. I am Yahweh your God who set you apart from the peoples.

Therefore you must distinguish the clean animal from the unclean one, and the unclean bird from the clean one. Do not become contaminated by any land animal, bird, or whatever crawls on the ground; I have set these apart as unclean for you.

You are to be holy to Me because I, Yahweh, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be Mine.

You are to consider him holy since he presents the food of your God. He will be holy to you because I, Yahweh who sets you apart, am holy.

so that he does not corrupt his bloodline among his people, for I am Yahweh who sets him apart.”

But because he has a defect, he must not go near the curtain or approach the altar. He is not to desecrate My sanctuaries, for I am Yahweh who sets them apart.”

They must keep My instruction, or they will be guilty and die because they profane it; I am Yahweh who sets them apart.

by letting the people eat their holy offerings and having them bear the penalty of restitution. For I am Yahweh who sets them apart.”

You must not profane My holy name; I must be treated as holy among the Israelites. I am Yahweh who sets you apart,

When the field is released in the Jubilee, it will be holy to the Lord like a field permanently set apart; it becomes the priest’s property.

“Nothing that a man permanently sets apart to the Lord from all he owns, whether a person, an animal, or his inherited landholding, can be sold or redeemed; everything set apart is especially holy to the Lord.

No person who has been set apart for destruction is to be ransomed; he must be put to death.

Then he said to Korah and all his followers, “Tomorrow morning the Lord will reveal who belongs to Him, who is set apart, and the one He will let come near Him. He will let the one He chooses come near Him.

place fire in them and put incense on them before the Lord. Then the man the Lord chooses will be the one who is set apart. It is you Levites who have gone too far!”

Who has counted the dust of Jacob
or numbered the dust clouds of Israel?
Let me die the death of the upright;
let the end of my life be like theirs.

Then Moses set apart three cities across the Jordan to the east.

You must not bring any abhorrent thing into your house, or you will be set apart for destruction like it. You are to utterly detest and abhor it, because it is set apart for destruction.

“At that time the Lord set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the Lord’s covenant, to stand before Yahweh to serve Him, and to pronounce blessings in His name, as it is today.

Nothing set apart for destruction is to remain in your hand, so that the Lord will turn from His burning anger and grant you mercy, show you compassion, and multiply you as He swore to your fathers.

you are to set apart three cities for yourselves within the land the Lord your God is giving you to possess.

This is why I am commanding you to set apart three cities for yourselves.

The Lord will make you the head and not the tail; you will only move upward and never downward if you listen to the Lord your God’s commands I am giving you today and are careful to follow them.

But the city and everything in it are set apart to the Lord for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and everyone with her in the house will live, because she hid the men we sent.

But keep yourselves from the things set apart, or you will be set apart for destruction. If you take any of those things, you will set apart the camp of Israel for destruction and bring disaster on it.

The Israelites, however, were unfaithful regarding the things set apart for destruction. Achan son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of what was set apart, and the Lord’s anger burned against the Israelites.

Israel has sinned. They have violated My covenant that I appointed for them. They have taken some of what was set apart. They have stolen, deceived, and put the things with their own belongings.

This is why the Israelites cannot stand against their enemies. They will turn their backs and run from their enemies, because they have been set apart for destruction. I will no longer be with you unless you remove from you what is set apart.

“Go and consecrate the people. Tell them to consecrate themselves for tomorrow, for this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: There are things that are set apart among you, Israel. You will not be able to stand against your enemies until you remove what is set apart.

The one who is caught with the things set apart must be burned, along with everything he has, because he has violated the Lord’s covenant and committed an outrage in Israel.”

the cities set apart for the descendants of Ephraim within the inheritance of the descendants of Manasseh—all these cities with their villages.

Wasn’t Achan son of Zerah unfaithful regarding what was set apart for destruction, bringing wrath on the entire community of Israel? He was not the only one who perished because of his sin.’”

The territory of the Amorites extended from the Ascent of Akrabbim, that is from Sela upward.

the Spirit of the Lord took control of him, and he tore the lion apart with his bare hands as he might have torn a young goat. But he did not tell his father or mother what he had done.

The Israelites, apart from Benjamin, rallied 400,000 armed men, every one an experienced warrior.

Afterward, Samuel took a stone and set it upright between Mizpah and Shen. He named it Ebenezer, explaining, “The Lord has helped us to this point.”

The troops took sheep and cattle from the plunder—the best of what was set apart for destruction—to sacrifice to the Lord your God at Gilgal.”

My servants will bring the logs down from Lebanon to the sea, and I will make them into rafts to go by sea to the place you indicate. I will break them apart there, and you can take them away. You then can meet my needs by providing my household with food.”

For You, Lord God, have set them apart as Your inheritance
from all the people on earth,
as You spoke through Your servant Moses
when You brought their ancestors out of Egypt.

He gave a sign that day. He said, “This is the sign that the Lord has spoken: ‘The altar will now be ripped apart, and the ashes that are on it will be poured out.’”

The altar was ripped apart, and the ashes poured from the altar, according to the sign that the man of God had given by the word of the Lord.

For the Lord will strike Israel and the people will shake as a reed shakes in water. He will uproot Israel from this good soil that He gave to their ancestors. He will scatter them beyond the Euphrates because they made their Asherah poles, provoking the Lord.

The surviving remnant of the house of Israel will again take root downward and bear fruit upward.

These who were recorded by name came in the days of King Hezekiah of Judah, attacked the Hamites’ tents and the Meunites who were found there, and set them apart for destruction, as they are today. Then they settled in their place because there was pasture for their flocks.

Amram’s sons: Aaron and Moses.

Aaron, along with his descendants, was set apart forever to consecrate the most holy things, to burn incense in the presence of Yahweh, to minister to Him, and to pronounce blessings in His name forever.

David and the officers of the army also set apart some of the sons of Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun, who were to prophesy accompanied by lyres, harps, and cymbals. This is the list of the men who performed their service:

I know, my God, that You test the heart and that You are pleased with what is right. I have willingly given all these things with an upright heart, and now I have seen Your people who are present here giving joyfully and willingly to You.

then I will uproot Israel from the soil that I gave them, and this temple that I have sanctified for My name I will banish from My presence; I will make it an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples.

Hezekiah did this throughout all Judah. He did what was good and upright and true before the Lord his God.

But mankind is born for trouble
as surely as sparks fly upward.

if you are pure and upright,
then He will move even now on your behalf
and restore the home where your righteousness dwells.

I am a laughingstock to my friends,
by calling on God, who answers me.
The righteous and upright man is a laughingstock.

The upright are appalled at this,
and the innocent are roused against the godless.

All memory of him perishes from the earth;
he has no name anywhere.

Then an upright man could reason with Him,
and I would escape from my Judge forever.

My words come from my upright heart,
and my lips speak with sincerity what they know.

Know that the Lord has set apart
the faithful for Himself;
the Lord will hear when I call to Him.

or they will tear me like a lion,
ripping me apart with no one to rescue me.

My shield is with God,
who saves the upright in heart.

For look, the wicked string the bow;
they put the arrow on the bowstring
to shoot from the shadows at the upright in heart.

For the Lord is righteous; He loves righteous deeds.
The upright will see His face.

The Lord is good and upright;
therefore He shows sinners the way.

Be glad in the Lord and rejoice,
you righteous ones;
shout for joy,
all you upright in heart.

Rejoice in the Lord, you righteous ones;
praise from the upright is beautiful.

Spread Your faithful love over those who know You,
and Your righteousness over the upright in heart.

The wicked have drawn the sword and strung the bow
to bring down the afflicted and needy
and to slaughter those whose way is upright.

Watch the blameless and observe the upright,
for the man of peace will have a future.

Like sheep they are headed for Sheol;
Death will shepherd them.
The upright will rule over them in the morning,
and their form will waste away in Sheol,
far from their lofty abode.

“Understand this, you who forget God,
or I will tear you apart,
and there will be no one to rescue you.

This is why God will bring you down forever.
He will take you, ripping you out of your tent;
He will uproot you from the land of the living.Selah

The righteous one rejoices in the Lord
and takes refuge in Him;
all those who are upright in heart
will offer praise.

for justice will again be righteous,
and all the upright in heart will follow it.

Light dawns for the righteous,
gladness for the upright in heart.

He brought them out of darkness and gloom
and broke their chains apart.

The upright see it and rejoice,
and all injustice shuts its mouth.

Hallelujah!
I will praise the Lord with all my heart
in the assembly of the upright and in the congregation.

His descendants will be powerful in the land;
the generation of the upright will be blessed.

Light shines in the darkness for the upright.
He is gracious, compassionate, and righteous.

Praise the Lord,
who has not let us be ripped apart by their teeth.

Do what is good, Lord, to the good,
to those whose hearts are upright.

Surely the righteous will praise Your name;
the upright will live in Your presence.

He stores up success for the upright;
He is a shield for those who live with integrity

For the upright will inhabit the land,
and those of integrity will remain in it;

for the devious are detestable to the Lord,
but He is a friend to the upright.

The integrity of the upright guides them,
but the perversity of the treacherous destroys them.

The righteousness of the upright rescues them,
but the treacherous are trapped by their own desires.

A city is built up by the blessing of the upright,
but it is torn down by the mouth of the wicked.

The words of the wicked are a deadly ambush,
but the speech of the upright rescues them.

Fools mock at making restitution,
but there is goodwill among the upright.

The house of the wicked will be destroyed,
but the tent of the upright will stand.

The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable to the Lord,
but the prayer of the upright is His delight.