Quotes about Separation

Those of Israelite descent separated themselves from all the foreigners, and they stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.

“The rest of the people—the priests, Levites, gatekeepers, singers, temple servants, and all who had separated themselves from the people of the land to obey the Law of God—along with their wives and all their sons and daughters who are able to understand,

We will not give our daughters in marriage to the people of the land, and we will not take their daughters for our sons.

As soon as the people heard this law, they excluded from Israel all of foreign descent.

If he is uprooted from his place, it will disown him, saying, ‘I never saw you.’

He has removed my brothers from me; my acquaintances have abandoned me.

Far from human habitation he cuts a shaft in places forgotten by the foot of man. Far from men he dangles and sways.

Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind.

Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for the LORD has heard my weeping.

May they be like chaff in the wind, as the angel of the LORD drives them away.

I have become a stranger to my brothers and a foreigner to my mother’s sons,

Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may obey the commandments of my God.