Leviticus 20:26

You must be holy, for I, Yahweh, am holy, and I have separated you from the other peoples, for you belong to me.

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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

25You must therefore distinguish between the clean animals and the unclean, and between the unclean birds and the clean. You must not defile yourselves with unclean animals or birds or with any creature that crawls along the ground, which I have separated as unclean from you.

27A man or a woman who talks with the dead or who talks with spirits must certainly be put to death. The people must stone them with stones. They are guilty and deserve to die.'”

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Cross References

Leviticus 19:2“Speak to all the assembly of the people of Israel and say to them, 'You must be holy, for I Yahweh your God am holy.

Leviticus 20:8You must keep my commands and carry them out. I am Yahweh who sets you apart as holy.

Deuteronomy 7:6For you are a nation that is set apart to Yahweh your God. He has chosen you to be a people for him to possess, more than all the other peoples that are on the face of the earth.

Deuteronomy 26:18Today Yahweh has declared that you are a people who are his own possession, as he had promised you, and that you are to keep all his commandments,

Psalms 99:5Praise Yahweh our God 1 and worship at his footstool. 1 He is holy. 1

Isaiah 6:3Each one called to another and said, 1 “Holy, holy, holy, is Yahweh of hosts! The whole earth is full of his glory.”

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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