Leviticus 20:8

And keep ye My statutes, and do them: I am the LORD who sanctify you.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am the LORD which sanctify you.

In Context

7Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy; for I am the LORD your God.

9For whatsoever man there be that curseth his father or his mother shall surely be put to death; he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

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Cross References

Leviticus 18:4Mine ordinances shall ye do, and My statutes shall ye keep, to walk therein: I am the LORD your God.

Leviticus 19:37And ye shall observe all My statutes, and all Mine ordinances, and do them: I am the LORD.

Leviticus 21:8Thou shalt sanctify him therefore; for he offereth the bread of thy God; he shall be holy unto thee; for I the LORD, who sanctify you, am holy.

Ezekiel 20:12Moreover also I gave them My sabbaths, to be a sign between Me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify them.

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 20:2-10

Moral Laws. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones. 3 And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.… Read the whole commentary →

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