Leviticus 20:7

Legacy Standard Bible

Therefore, you shall set yourselves apart as holy and be holy, for I am Yahweh 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.

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.

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

¹Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ²"You shall also say to the sons of Israel: ‘Any man from the sons of Israel or from the sojourners sojourning in Israel who gives any of his seed to Molech shall surely be put to death; the people of the land shall stone him with stones. ³I will also set My face against that man and will cut him off from among his people because he has given some of those who are his seed to Molech, so as to defile My sanctuary and to profane My holy name. ⁴If the people of the land, however, should ever turn a blind eye to that man when he gives any of those who are his seed to Molech, so as not to put him to death, ⁵then I Myself will set My face against that man and against his family, and I will cut off from among their people both him and all those who play the harlot after him, in playing the harlot after Molech. ⁶‘As for the person who turns to mediums and to spiritists, to play the harlot after them, I will also set My face against that person and will cut him off from among his people. ⁷Therefore, you shall set yourselves apart as holy and be holy, for I am Yahweh your God. ⁸And you shall keep My statutes and do them; I am Yahweh who makes you holy. ⁹‘If there is anyone who curses his father or his mother, he shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother. His bloodguiltiness 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 from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat from it; for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die."

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

Genesis 12:17
But Yahweh struck Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.

Genesis 20:1
And Abraham journeyed from there toward the land of the Negev and settled between Kadesh and Shur; then he sojourned in Gerar.

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

Genesis 20:3
But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night and said to him, "Behold, you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken, for she is married."

Genesis 20:4
(Now Abimelech had not come near her.) Then he said, "Lord, will You kill a nation, even though righteous?

Genesis 20:5
Did he not himself say to me, ‘She is my sister'? And she herself also said, ‘He is my brother.' In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands I have done this."

Genesis 20:6
Then God said to him in the dream, "Indeed, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also held you back from sinning against Me; therefore I did not let you touch her.

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