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Leviticus 20:26 — And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the Lord am holy, and have…
“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.”
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The verses around Leviticus 20:26.
24But 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.
25Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.
26And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the Lord am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine.
27A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood shall be upon them.
Verse explanation
The chapter closes by repeating the whole book’s central idea: be holy because this God is holy, and having been set apart from the other nations to belong only to Him.
From the Leviticus 20 study in Bible in Stories.
Leviticus 20:26 in other versions
The same verse in the 4 Bible versions we have on the site.
- KJV · King James
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.
Read the chapter in this version → - ARC · Almeida 1911Português
E ser-me-heis sanctos, porque Eu, o Senhor, sou sancto, e separei-vos dos povos, para serdes meus.
Read the chapter in this version → - BLIVRE · Bíblia LivrePortuguês
Haveis, pois, de ser para mim santos, porque eu o SENHOR sou santo, e vos separei dos povos, para que sejais meus.
Read the chapter in this version → - VBL · Versión Biblia LibreEspañol
Ustedes serán santos para mí porque yo soy santo. Yo soy el Señor, y los he hecho un pueblo distinto de todas las demás naciones. Ustedes me pertenecen.
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