Leviticus 20:8

And you shall observe My statutes, and do them: I am the Lord who sanctify you.

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

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

In Context

7But you shall be sanctified, and be holy; for I am your God.

9For the man who curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death; he hath cursed his father, he is guilty of death.

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Cross References

Leviticus 18:4My judgments shall you perform and keep My statutes to walk in them; I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 19:37I am the Lord your God, who have brought you out from the land of Mizraim; and you shall keep all My statutes, and all My judgments, and do them: I am the Lord.

Leviticus 21:8Thou shalt consecrate him, for he is to offer the oblation of thy God: he shall be sacred to thee; for I the Lord, who sanctify you, am Holy.

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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