Leviticus 20:8

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

Leeser Tanakh

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 every one whatever that curseth his father or his mother shall be put to death: his father or his mother hath he cursed, his blood shall be upon him.

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Cross References

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

Leviticus 19:37Ye shall therefore observe all my statutes, and all my ordinances, and do them: I am the Lord.

Leviticus 21:8And thou shalt sanctify him; for the bread of thy God doth he offer: holy shall he be unto thee; for I the Lord, who sanctify you, am holy.

Ezekiel 20:12And also my sabbaths gave I unto them, to be as a sign between me and between them, that they might know that I am the Lord who 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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