Leviticus 11:44
For I [am] your God YHWH, and you have sanctified yourselves, and you have been holy, for I [am] holy; and you do not defile your persons with any teeming thing which is creeping on the earth;
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Exodus 19:6and you are to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation: these [are] the words which you speak to the sons of Israel.”
Exodus 22:30so you do to your ox [and] to your sheep; it is with its mother [for] seven days, on the eighth day you give it to Me.
Leviticus 10:3And Moses says to Aaron, “It [is] that which YHWH has spoken, saying, By those drawing near to Me I am sanctified, and in the face of all the people I am honored”; and Aaron is silent.
Leviticus 18:2“Speak to the sons of Israel, and you have said to them: I [am] your God YHWH;
Leviticus 19:3You each fear his mother and his father, and you keep My Sabbaths; I [am] your God YHWH.
Leviticus 19:10and you do not glean your vineyard, even the omitted part of your vineyard you do not gather, you leave them for the poor and for the sojourner; I [am] your God YHWH.
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 →