² So Jacob said to his family and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you.^(A) Purify yourselves and change your clothes.^(B)

⁴⁴ For I am Yahweh your God,^(A) so you must consecrate yourselves^(B) and be holy because I am holy.^(C) You must not defile yourselves by any swarming creature that crawls on the ground. ⁴⁵ For I am Yahweh, who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be your God,^(D) so you must be holy because I am holy.^(E)

²² let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed in pure water.^(A)