Leviticus 20:26

You shall be holy to me because I am holy. I am the Lord, and I have made you a distinctive people different from all other nations. You belong to me.

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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

25So make sure you observe the difference between clean and unclean animals and birds. Don't make yourselves unclean because of any animal or bird, or by anything that runs along the ground. I have made the difference clear: they are unclean for you.

27Anyone, man or woman, who is a medium or a spiritist must be executed. They are to be stoned to death; they bear the responsibility for their punishment.”

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Cross References

Leviticus 19:2“Tell all the Israelites: You must be holy because I am holy; I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 20:8Keep my rules and put them into practice. I am the Lord who makes you holy.

Deuteronomy 7:6For you are the Lord your God's holy people. The Lord your God has chosen you to be his own special people, valued above all other peoples on the earth.

Deuteronomy 26:18Today the Lord has announced that you are a special people who belong to him as he promised. He has announced that you are to keep all his commandments.

Psalms 99:5Give respect to the Lord our God! Bow down at his feet, for he is holy!

Isaiah 6:3They were calling out to one another: Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty; his glory fills the whole earth.

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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