Leviticus 20:7

Green's Literal Translation

And you shall sanctify yourselves, and you shall 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.

Darby Translation
Hallow yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am Jehovah 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.

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 And you shall say to the sons of Israel, Any man of the sons of Israel, and of the aliens who are living in Israel, who gives of his seed to Molech dying shall die. The people of the land shall stone him with stones! ³ And I, I shall set My face against that man, and shall cut him off from the midst of his people, for he has given of his seed to Molech, so as to defile My sanctuary, and to pollute My holy name. ⁴ And if the people of the land truly hide their eyes from that man, as he gives his seed to Molech, so as not to put him to death, ⁵ then I shall set My face against that man, and against his family, and shall cut him off, and all who go whoring after him, even going whoring after Molech from the midst of their people. ⁶ And the person who turns to mediums, and to spirit-knowers, to go whoring after them, I shall set my face against that person, and cut him off from the midst of his people. ⁷ And you shall sanctify yourselves, and you shall be holy, for I am Jehovah your God; ⁸ and you shall keep My statutes and shall do them; I am Jehovah who is sanctifying you. ⁹ And any man who curses his father and his mother dying he shall die; he has cursed his father and his mother; his blood shall be on 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 you may not eat, for in the day that you eat of it, dying you shall die.

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

Genesis 12:17
And Jehovah touched Pharaoh and his house with great plagues on the word of Sarai, Abram's wife.

Genesis 20:1
And Abraham pulled up stakes from there to the land of the Negeb, and lived between Kadesh and Shur, and stayed in Gerar.

Genesis 20:2
And Abraham said with regards to his wife Sarah, 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, you are about to die because of the woman you have taken, she being married to a husband.

Genesis 20:4
And Abimelech had not come near her. And he said, O Lord, will You slay even a righteous nation?

Genesis 20:5
And did he not say to me, She is my sister? And she, even she herself said, He is my brother. In the honor of my heart and the purity of my hands I have done this.

Genesis 20:6
And God said to him in a dream, Yes, I know that you did this in the honor of your heart, and I also withheld you from sinning against Me. On account of this I did not allow you to touch her.

Genesis 20:9
And Abimelech called Abraham and said to him, What have you done to us? And in what have I offended you that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done things to me 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.