'Separate' in the Bible
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;
All the time he is separate he may take nothing made from the grape-vine, from its seeds to its skin.
All the time he is under his oath let no blade come near his head; till the days while he is separate are ended he is holy and his hair may not be cut.
All the time he is separate he may not come near any dead body.
He may not make himself unclean for his father or his mother, his sister or his brother, if death comes to them; because he is under an oath to keep himself separate for God.
And he will give to the Lord his days of being separate, offering a he-lamb of the first year as an offering for error: but the earlier days will be a loss, because he became unclean.
And this is the law for him who is separate, when the necessary days are ended: he is to come to the door of the Tent of meeting,
And the priest will take the cooked leg of the sheep and one unleavened cake and one thin cake out of the basket, and put them on the hands of the separate one after his hair has been cut,
This is the law for him who takes an oath to keep himself separate, and for his offering to the Lord on that account, in addition to what he may be able to get; this is the law of his oath, which he will have to keep.
So you are to make the Levites separate from the children of Israel, and the Levites will be mine.
Does it seem only a small thing to you that the God of Israel has made you separate from the rest of Israel, letting you come near himself to do the work of the House of the Lord, and to take your place before the people to do what has to be done for them;
From the top of the rocks I see him, looking down on him from the hills: it is a people made separate, not to be numbered among the nations.
And a separate tenth part of the best meal mixed with oil for a meal offering for every lamb; for a burned offering of a sweet smell, an offering made by fire to the Lord.
And a separate tenth part for every one of the seven lambs;
And a separate tenth part for every one of the seven lambs;
And a separate tenth part for every one of the seven lambs;
A separate tenth part for every one of the seven lambs;
And a separate tenth part for every one of the fourteen lambs;
And from the half given to the children of Israel, which Moses had kept separate from that given to the fighting-men,