Leviticus 20:7
New International Version
“’Consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am the LORD your God.

New Living Translation
So set yourselves apart to be holy, for I am the LORD your God.

English Standard Version
Consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, for I am the LORD your God.

Berean Standard Bible
Consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, because I am the LORD your God.

King James Bible
Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the LORD your God.

New King James Version
Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am the LORD your God.

New American Standard Bible
You shall consecrate yourselves therefore and be holy, for I am the LORD your God.

NASB 1995
‘You shall consecrate yourselves therefore and be holy, for I am the LORD your God.

NASB 1977
‘You shall consecrate yourselves therefore and be holy, for I am the LORD your God.

Legacy Standard Bible
Therefore, you shall set yourselves apart as holy and be holy, for I am Yahweh your God.

Amplified Bible
You shall consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am the LORD your God.

Christian Standard Bible
Consecrate yourselves and be holy, for I am the LORD your God.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Consecrate yourselves and be holy, for I am Yahweh your God.

American Standard Version
Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy; for I am Jehovah your God.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Be sanctified and be Holy Ones, because I AM LORD JEHOVAH your God.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And ye shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.

Contemporary English Version
Dedicate yourselves to me and be holy because I am the LORD your God.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Sanctify yourselves, and be ye holy because I am the Lord your God.

English Revised Version
Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the LORD your God.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"Live holy lives. Be holy because I am the LORD your God.

Good News Translation
Keep yourselves holy, because I am the LORD your God.

International Standard Version
Therefore, separate yourselves and be holy, because I am the LORD your God.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy; for I am the LORD your God.

Literal Standard Version
And you have sanctified yourselves, and you have been holy, for I [am] your God YHWH;

Majority Standard Bible
Consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, because I am the LORD your God.

New American Bible
Sanctify yourselves, then, and be holy; for I, the LORD, your God, am holy.

NET Bible
"'You must sanctify yourselves and be holy, because I am the LORD your God.

New Revised Standard Version
Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am the LORD your God.

New Heart English Bible
"'Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am the LORD your God.

Webster's Bible Translation
Sanctify yourselves therefore and be ye holy: for I am the LORD your God.

World English Bible
“‘Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am Yahweh your God.

Young's Literal Translation
And ye have sanctified yourselves, and ye have been holy, for I am Jehovah your God;

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Context
Punishments for Disobedience
6Whoever turns to mediums or spiritists to prostitute himself with them, I will also set My face against that person and cut him off from his people. 7Consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, because I am the LORD your God. 8And you shall keep My statutes and practice them. I am the LORD who sanctifies you.…

Cross References
Ephesians 1:4
For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love

1 Peter 1:16
for it is written: "Be holy, because I am holy."

Leviticus 19:2
"Speak to the whole congregation of Israel and tell them: Be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy.

Joshua 24:19
But Joshua said to the people, "You are not able to serve the LORD, for He is a holy God; He is a jealous God; He will not forgive your rebellion or your sins.


Treasury of Scripture

Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be you holy: for I am the LORD your God.

Leviticus 11:44
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.

Leviticus 19:2
Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God am holy.

Ephesians 1:4
According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

Colossians 3:12
Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;

1 Thessalonians 4:3,7
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: …

Hebrews 12:14
Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:

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Leviticus 20
1. Of him who gives his seed to Moloch
4. Of him who favors such an one
6. Of going to wizards
7. Of sanctification
9. Of him who curses his parents
11. Of incest
13. Of sodomy
15. Of bestiality
18. Of uncleanness
22. Obedience is required with holiness
27. Wizards must be put to death














(7, 8) Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy.--Rather, Ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy, as the same phrase is rendered in the Authorised Version in Leviticus 11:44. Though it is immaterial which of the two renderings is adopted, it is important that it should be the same in both passages, since the phrase is exactly the same in the original. It is only by keeping the Divine ordinances that the Israelites will attain to that state of holiness which will not only arm them to resist the abominable rites and idolatrous practices denounced in the foregoing verses, but which will enable them to reflect the holiness of their Lord.

Verses 7, 8. - A positive command, Sanctify yourselves therefore, and he ye holy: for I am the Lord your God, is introduced early in the list of penalties to show what is the main purpose of the latter. The only way in which the nation can recover holiness lost by the sins of its members, is by the punishment of the latter, or by their purification by means of sacrifice, according to the nature of the offense.

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Hebrew
Consecrate yourselves,
וְהִ֨תְקַדִּשְׁתֶּ֔ם (wə·hiṯ·qad·diš·tem)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hitpael - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 6942: To be set apart or consecrated

therefore, and be
וִהְיִיתֶ֖ם (wih·yî·ṯem)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

holy,
קְדֹשִׁ֑ים (qə·ḏō·šîm)
Adjective - masculine plural
Strong's 6918: Sacred, God, an angel, a saint, a sanctuary

for
כִּ֛י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

I
אֲנִ֥י (’ă·nî)
Pronoun - first person common singular
Strong's 589: I

am the LORD
יְהוָ֖ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3069: YHWH

your God.
אֱלֹהֵיכֶֽם׃ (’ĕ·lō·hê·ḵem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative


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