Leviticus 20:26

And ye shall be holy to me, for I, LORD, am holy, and have set you apart from the peoples, that ye should be mine.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the LORD am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine.

In Context

25Ye shall therefore make a distinction between the clean beast and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean. And ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by bird, or by anything with which the ground teems

27A man or also a woman who has a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death. They shall stone them with stones; their blood shall be upon them.

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Cross References

Leviticus 19:2Speak to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, and say to them, Ye shall be holy, for I LORD your God am holy.

Leviticus 20:8And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them. I am LORD who sanctifies you.

Deuteronomy 7:6For thou are a holy people to LORD thy God. LORD thy God has chosen thee to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth.

Deuteronomy 26:18And LORD has avouched thee this day to be a people for his own possession, as he has promised thee, and that thou should keep all his commandments,

Psalms 99:5Exalt ye LORD our God, and worship at his footstool. Holy is he.

Isaiah 6:3And one cried to another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is LORD of hosts. The whole earth is full of his glory.

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 20:23-27

22 Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out. 23 And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them. 24 But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that floweth with milk and honey: I am the Lord your God, which have separated you from other people. 25 Ye… Read the whole commentary →

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