Leviticus 20:26

Ye schulen be hooli to me, for `Y am the hooli Lord, and Y departide you fro othere puplis, that ye schulen be myne.

Wycliffe (portions)

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

25Therfor also ye departe a cleene beeste fro vnclene, and a cleene brid fro vncleene, lest ye defoule youre soulis in a beeste, and in briddis, and in alle thingis that ben moued in erthe, and whiche thingis Y schewide to you to be defoulid.

27A man ethir a womman, in which is an vncleene spirit spekynge in the `wombe, ethir `a spirit of fals dyuynyng, + 20:27 This is not vndurstondun of wode men in which the wickid spirit spekith with out her procuryng, but of hem that procuren that the deuel speke in hem. die thei bi deeth; men schulen oppresse hem bi stoonus; her blood be on hem.

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Cross References

Leviticus 19:2Speke thou to al the cumpenye of the sones of Israel, and thou schalt seie to hem, Be ye hooli, for Y am hooli, youre Lord God.

Leviticus 20:8Kepe ye myn heestis, and do ye tho, for Y am the Lord that halewe you.

Deuteronomy 7:6For thou art an hooli puple to thi Lord God; thi Lord God chees thee, that thou be a special puple to hym, of alle puplis that ben on erthe.

Deuteronomy 26:18Lo! the Lord chees thee to day, that thou be a special puple + 26:18 a special puple; that is, loued singulerly. to hym, as he spak to thee, and that thou kepe alle hise comaundementis;

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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