Leviticus 20:7

The Darby Translation

Hallow yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am Jehovah your God.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am the LORD your God.

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

Lexham English Bible
"‘And you shall consecrate yourselves, and you shall be holy, because I am Yahweh your God.

New Century Version
"‘Be my holy people. Be holy because I am the Lord your God.

New English Translation
"‘You must sanctify yourselves and be holy, because I am the Lord your God.

Amplified Bible
'You shall 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.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Sanctifie your selues therefore, and be holie, for I am the Lorde your God.

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

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

Complete Jewish Bible
Therefore consecrate yourselves — you people must be holy, because I am Adonai your God.

Easy-to-Read Version
"Be special. Make yourselves holy, because I am the Lord your God.

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

George Lamsa Translation
Sanctify yourselves, therefore, and be holy; for I am the LORD your God.

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

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

Literal Translation
And you shall sanctify yourselves, and you shall be holy, for I am Jehovah your God;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Sanctifie youre selues therfore, & be holy: for I am holy euen youre God.

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

Bible in Basic English
So make and keep yourselves holy, for I am the Lord your God.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Sanctifie your selues therefore and be holy: for I am the Lorde your God.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy; for I am the LORD your God.

King James Version (1611)
Sanctifie your selues therefore, and bee yee holy: for I am the Lord your God.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And ye shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.

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

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

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Be ye halewid, and be ye hooli, for Y am hooli, youre Lord God.

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

Update Bible Version
Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am Yahweh 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.

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

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

New Life Bible
So you should set yourselves apart and be holy. For I am the Lord your God.

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

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Therefore shall ye hallow yourselves and be holy, - Because I - Yahweh, am your God.

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

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

THE MESSAGE
"Set yourselves apart for a holy life. Live a holy life, because I am God , your God. Do what I tell you; live the way I tell you. I am the God who makes you holy.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
'You shall consecrate yourselves therefore and be holy, for I am the LORD your God.

Contextual Overview

¹ And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, ² Thou shalt say also to the children of Israel, Every one of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn in Israel, that giveth of his seed unto Molech, shall certainly be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones. ³ And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, so as to make my sanctuary unclean, and to profane my holy name. ⁴ And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from that man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, that they kill him not, ⁵ then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people. ⁶ —And the soul that turneth unto necromancers and unto soothsayers, to go a whoring after them, I will set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people. ⁷ Hallow yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am Jehovah your God. ⁸ And ye shall observe my statutes, and do them: I am Jehovah who hallow you. ⁹ Whatever man revileth his father and his mother shall certainly be put to death: he hath reviled his father and his mother; his blood is upon him.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Leviticus 11:44, Leviticus 19:2, Ephesians 1:4, Philippians 2:12, Philippians 2:13, Colossians 3:12, 1 Thessalonians 4:3, 1 Thessalonians 4:7, Hebrews 12:14, 1 Peter 1:15, 1 Peter 1:16

Reciprocal: Leviticus 18:2 - General Leviticus 19:31 - General Leviticus 20:26 - the Lord Leviticus 21:8 - for I Joshua 3:5 - Sanctify 1 Samuel 16:5 - sanctify yourselves Ezekiel 20:7 - I am Ezekiel 37:23 - but

Cross-References

Genesis 2:17
but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou eatest of it thou shalt certainly die.

Genesis 12:15
And the princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.

Genesis 12:17
And Jehovah plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife.

Genesis 20:1
And Abraham departed thence towards the south country, and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned at Gerar.

Genesis 20:2
And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister. And Abimelech the king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.

Genesis 20:3
But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art [but] a dead man, because of the woman that thou hast taken; for she is a man's wife.

Genesis 20:4
But Abimelech had not come near her. And he said, Lord, wilt thou also kill a righteous nation?

Genesis 20:5
Did he not say to me, She is my sister? and she, even she said, He is my brother. In the integrity of my heart and in the innocency of my hands have I done this.

Genesis 20:6
And God said to him in a dream, I also knew that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart, and I, too, have withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore have I not suffered thee to touch her.

Genesis 20:9
And Abimelech called Abraham and said to him, What hast thou done to us? And in what have I sinned against thee, that thou hast brought on me, and on my kingdom, a great sin? Thou hast done to me deeds that ought not to be done.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Sanctify yourselves therefore,.... By abstaining from such impious and idolatrous practices, and separating themselves from all that gave into them, as well as by observing the holy commandments of the Lord; otherwise internal sanctification is not the work of man, but of the Lord himself, as in Leviticus 20:8:

and be ye holy; or a separate people from all others in worship and conversation:

for I [am] the Lord your God; who is a holy God, and therefore it became them to be holy, in imitation of him, Leviticus 19:2.