Exodus 19:10-15

10the Lord said to Moses, “Go to the people and aconsecrate them today and tomorrow, and let them bwash their garments 11and be ready for the third day. For on the third day cthe Lord will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people. 12And you shall set limits for the people all around, saying, ‘Take care not to go up into the mountain or touch the edge of it. dWhoever touches the mountain shall be put to death. 13No hand shall touch him, but he shall be stoned or shot;
That is,  shot with an arrow
whether beast or man, he shall not live.’ When fthe trumpet sounds a long blast, they shall come up to the mountain.”
14So Moses gwent down from the mountain to the people and hconsecrated the people; iand they washed their garments. 15And he said to the people, “Be ready for the jthird day; kdo not go near a woman.”

Leviticus 10:3

3Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what the Lord has said: ‘Among lthose who are near me mI will be sanctified, and before all the people I will be glorified.’” nAnd Aaron held his peace.

Leviticus 20:7

7 oConsecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, for I am the Lord your God.

Numbers 11:8

8 pThe people went about and gathered it and ground it in handmills or beat it in mortars and boiled it in pots and made cakes of it. qAnd the taste of it was like the taste of cakes baked with oil.

Joshua 7:13

13Get up! Consecrate the people and say, rConsecrate yourselves for tomorrow; for thus says the Lord, God of Israel, “There are devoted things in your midst, O Israel. You cannot stand before your enemies until you take away the devoted things from among you.”

1 Samuel 16:5

5And he said, “Peaceably; I have come to sacrifice to the Lord. sConsecrate yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice.” And he consecrated Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice.

Job 1:5

5And when the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send and tconsecrate them, and he would rise early in the morning and uoffer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my children have sinned, and vcursed
The Hebrew word bless is used euphemistically for curse in 1:5, 11; 2:5, 9
God in their hearts.” Thus Job did continually.

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