Leviticus 11:44
For I am the Lord your God: for this reason, make and keep yourselves holy, for I am holy; you are not to make yourselves unclean with any sort of thing which goes about flat on the earth.
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Exodus 19:6And you will be a kingdom of priests to me, and a holy nation. These are the words which you are to say to the children of Israel.
Exodus 22:30In the same way with your oxen and your sheep: for seven days let the young one be with its mother; on the eighth day give it to me.
Leviticus 10:3Then Moses said to Aaron, This is what the Lord said, I will be holy in the eyes of all those who come near to me, and I will be honoured before all the people. And Aaron said nothing.
Leviticus 18:2Say to the children of Israel, I am the Lord your God.
Leviticus 19:3Let every man give honour to his mother and to his father and keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
Leviticus 19:10And do not take all the grapes from your vine-garden, or the fruit dropped on the earth; let the poor man, and the man from another country, have these: I am the Lord your God.
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 11:44-47
43 Ye shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creepeth, neither shall ye make yourselves unclean with them, that ye should be defiled thereby. 44 For I am the Lord your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 45 For I am the Lord that bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy. 46 This is the… Read the whole commentary →