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New American Standard Bible (1995)

Leviticus 20:8

'You shall keep My statutes and practice them; I am the LORD who sanctifies you.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Obedience;   Sanctification;   The Topic Concordance - Obedience;   Sanctification;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Consecrate;   Marriage;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Leviticus;   Pentateuch;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Canon of the Old Testament;   Congregation, Assembly;   Crimes and Punishments;   Deuteronomy;   Hexateuch;   Holiness;   Law;   Priests and Levites;   Sanctification, Sanctify;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Stoning;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Leviticus;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Grammar, Hebrew;   Holiness;   Jeremiah ben Eleazar;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for February 21;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
You shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am the LORD who sanctifies you.
King James Version
And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am the Lord which sanctify you.
Lexham English Bible
And you shall keep my statutes, and you shall do them; I am Yahweh who consecrates you.
New Century Version
Remember and obey my laws. I am the Lord , and I have made you holy.
New English Translation
You must be sure to obey my statutes. I am the Lord who sanctifies you.
Amplified Bible
'You shall keep My statutes and do them. I am the LORD who sanctifies you.
New American Standard Bible
'So you shall keep My statutes and practice them; I am the LORD who sanctifies you.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Keepe ye therefore mine ordinances, and doe them. I am the Lorde which doeth sanctifie you.
Legacy Standard Bible
And you shall keep My statutes and do them; I am Yahweh who makes you holy.
Contemporary English Version
I have chosen you as my people, and I expect you to obey my laws.
Complete Jewish Bible
(RY: vii, LY: vi) Observe my regulations, and obey them; I am Adonai , who sets you apart to be holy.
Darby Translation
And ye shall observe my statutes, and do them: I am Jehovah who hallow you.
Easy-to-Read Version
Remember and obey my laws. I am the Lord . And I have made you my special people.
English Standard Version
Keep my statutes and do them; I am the Lord who sanctifies you.
George Lamsa Translation
You shall keep my commandments and do them; I am the LORD who sanctifies you.
Good News Translation
Obey my laws, because I am the Lord and I make you holy."
Christian Standard Bible®
Keep my statutes and do them; I am the Lord who sets you apart.
Literal Translation
and you shall keep My statutes and shall do them; I am Jehovah who is sanctifying you.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And kepe ye my statutes, and do them: for I am ye LORDE that sanctifieth you.
American Standard Version
And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am Jehovah who sanctifieth you.
Bible in Basic English
And keep my rules and do them: I am the Lord, who make you holy.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Kepe ye myne ordinaunces, and do them: I am the Lorde whiche sanctifie you.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And keep ye My statutes, and do them: I am the LORD who sanctify you.
King James Version (1611)
And ye shall keepe my Statutes, and do them: I am the Lord which sanctifie you.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And ye shall observe my ordinances, and do them: I am the Lord that sanctifies you.
English Revised Version
And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am the LORD which sanctify you.
Berean Standard Bible
And you shall keep My statutes and practice them. I am the LORD who sanctifies you.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Kepe ye myn heestis, and do ye tho, for Y am the Lord that halewe you.
Young's Literal Translation
and ye have kept My statutes and have done them; I [am] Jehovah, sanctifying you.
Update Bible Version
And you shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am Yahweh who sanctifies you.
Webster's Bible Translation
And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I [am] the LORD who sanctify you.
World English Bible
You shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am Yahweh who sanctifies you.
New King James Version
And you shall keep My statutes, and perform them: I am the LORD who sanctifies you.
New Living Translation
Keep all my decrees by putting them into practice, for I am the Lord who makes you holy.
New Life Bible
Keep My Laws and live by them. I am the Lord Who sets you apart.
New Revised Standard
Keep my statutes, and observe them; I am the Lord ; I sanctify you.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Therefore shall ye observe my statutes, and do them, - I - Yahweh, am he that is hallowing you.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Keep my precepts, and do them. I am the Lord that sanctify you.
Revised Standard Version
Keep my statutes, and do them; I am the LORD who sanctify you.

Contextual Overview

1 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2 "You shall also say to the sons of Israel: 'Any man from the sons of Israel or from the aliens sojourning in Israel who gives any of his offspring to Molech, shall surely be put to death; the people of the land shall stone him with stones. 3 'I will also set My face against that man and will cut him off from among his people, because he has given some of his offspring to Molech, so as to defile My sanctuary and to profane My holy name. 4 'If the people of the land, however, should ever disregard that man when he gives any of his offspring to Molech, so as not to put him to death, 5 then 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, by 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. 7 'You shall consecrate yourselves therefore and be holy, for I am the LORD your God. 8 'You shall keep My statutes and practice them; I am the LORD who sanctifies you.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

And ye: Leviticus 18:4, Leviticus 18:5, Leviticus 19:37, Matthew 5:19, Matthew 7:24, Matthew 12:50, John 13:17, James 1:22, Revelation 22:14

sanctify: Leviticus 21:8, Exodus 31:13, Ezekiel 20:12, Ezekiel 37:28, 1 Corinthians 1:30, 1 Thessalonians 5:23, 2 Thessalonians 2:13

Reciprocal: Leviticus 22:16 - for I Leviticus 22:32 - hallow you Deuteronomy 4:1 - unto the statutes 1 Samuel 16:5 - sanctify yourselves Ezekiel 37:23 - but

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them,.... Not only those respecting the above things, but all others, which would be a means of preserving them from sin, and of promoting holiness in their lives and conversations:

I [am] the Lord which sanctify you: who had separated and distinguished them from all other people on earth, and who had given them holy laws, as the means of holiness; and who only could and did sanctify internally, by his Spirit and grace, such or them as were sanctified in heart, as well as outwardly.


 
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