Leviticus 20:26

You shall be holy to me, for I, the LORD, am holy, and have set you apart from the peoples, that you should be mine.

World English Bible

In The King James Version

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

25“‘You shall therefore make a distinction between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean. You shall not make yourselves abominable by animal, or by bird, or by anything with which the ground teems, which I have separated from you as unclean for you.

27“‘A man or a woman that is a medium or is a wizard shall surely be put to death. They shall be stoned with stones. Their blood shall be upon themselves.’”

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Cross References

Leviticus 19:2“Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘You shall be holy; for I, the LORD your God, am holy.

Leviticus 20:8You shall keep my statutes, and do them. I am the LORD who sanctifies you.

Deuteronomy 7:6For you are a holy people to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

Deuteronomy 26:18The LORD has declared today that you are a people for his own possession, as he has promised you, and that you should keep all his commandments.

Psalms 99:5Exalt the LORD our God. Worship at his footstool. He is Holy!

Isaiah 6:3One called to another, and said, “Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of Armies! 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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