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New Living Translation

Leviticus 11:45

For I, the Lord , am the one who brought you up from the land of Egypt, that I might be your God. Therefore, you must be holy because I am holy.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Food;   God Continued...;   Holiness;   Instruction;   Thompson Chain Reference - Animals;   Beasts;   Holiness;   Unclean;   The Topic Concordance - God;   Holiness;   Meat;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Defilement;   Holiness;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Beasts;   Clean and Unclean;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Ethics;   Exodus;   Holiness;   Leviticus;   Uncleanness;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Amos, Theology of;   Consecrate;   God;   Godly, Godliness;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Unclean and Clean;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Clean, Cleanness;   Godhead;   Leviticus;   Sin;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Clean and Unclean;   Leviticus;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Sparrow;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Clean and unclean;  

Encyclopedias:

- The Jewish Encyclopedia - Dietary Laws;   Duty;   Vegetarianism;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
For I am the LORD who brought you up out of the land of Mitzrayim, to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.
King James Version
For I am the Lord that bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.
Lexham English Bible
because I am Yahweh, who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be for you as God. Thus you shall be holy, because I am holy.
New Century Version
I am the Lord who brought you out of Egypt to be your God; you must be holy because I am holy.
New English Translation
for I am the Lord who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be your God, and you are to be holy because I am holy.
Amplified Bible
'For I am the LORD who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be your God; therefore you shall be holy, for I am holy.'"
New American Standard Bible
'For I am the LORD who brought you up from the land of Egypt, to be your God; so you shall be holy, because I am holy.'"
Geneva Bible (1587)
For I am the Lorde that brought you out of the lande of Egypt, to be your God, and that you should be holy, for I am holy.
Legacy Standard Bible
For I am Yahweh who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be your God; thus you shall be holy, for I am holy.'"
Contemporary English Version
I brought you out of Egypt so that I could be your God. Now you must become holy, because I am holy!
Complete Jewish Bible
(Maftir) For I am Adonai , who brought you up out of the land of Egypt to be your God. Therefore you are to be holy, because I am holy.
Darby Translation
For I am Jehovah who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.
Easy-to-Read Version
I, the Lord , brought you out of Egypt so that you could be my special people and I could be your God. I am holy, so you must be holy too."
English Standard Version
For I am the Lord who brought you up out of the land of Egypt to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy."
George Lamsa Translation
For I am the LORD your God who brought you up out of the land of Egypt to be your God; you shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.
Good News Translation
I am the Lord who brought you out of Egypt so that I could be your God. You must be holy, because I am holy.
Christian Standard Bible®
For I am the Lord, who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be your God, so you must be holy because I am holy.
Literal Translation
for I am Jehovah who brought you up out of the land of Egypt to become your God; and you shall be holy, for I am holy.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
for I am the LORDE, which brought you out of the londe of Egipte, that I might be youre God: therfore shal ye be holy, for I am holy.
American Standard Version
For I am Jehovah that brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.
Bible in Basic English
For I am the Lord, who took you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God; so be you holy, for I am holy.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For I am the Lorde that brought you out of the lande of Egypt, to be your God: ye shalbe holy therfore, for I am holy.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For I am the LORD that brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God; ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.
King James Version (1611)
For I am the Lord that bringeth you vp out of the land of Egypt to be your God: ye shal therefore be holy, for I am holy.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For I am the Lord who brought you up out of the land of Egypt to be your God; and ye shall be holy, for I the Lord am holy.
English Revised Version
For I am the LORD that brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.
Berean Standard Bible
For I am the LORD, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt so that I would be your God; therefore be holy, because I am holy.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
that ladde you out of the lond of Egipt, that Y schulde be to you in to God; ye schulen be hooli, for Y am hooli.
Young's Literal Translation
for I [am] Jehovah who am bringing you up out of the land of Egypt to become your God; and ye have been holy, for I [am] holy.
Update Bible Version
For I am Yahweh that brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: you shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.
Webster's Bible Translation
For I [am] the LORD that bringeth you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I [am] holy.
World English Bible
For I am Yahweh who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.
New King James Version
For I am the LORD who brings you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.
New Life Bible
For I am the Lord Who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God. So be holy, because I am holy.'"
New Revised Standard
For I am the Lord who brought you up from the land of Egypt, to be your God; you shall be holy, for I am holy.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
for, I - Yahweh, am he that brought you up out of the land of Egypt, that I might become your God, - therefore shall ye be holy, for, holy, am, I.
Douay-Rheims Bible
For I am the Lord, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that I might be your God.
Revised Standard Version
For I am the LORD who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God; you shall therefore be holy, for I am holy."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'For I am the LORD who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be your God; thus you shall be holy, for I am holy.'"

Contextual Overview

43 Do not defile yourselves by touching them. You must not make yourselves ceremonially unclean because of them. 44 For I am the Lord your God. You must consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am holy. So do not defile yourselves with any of these small animals that scurry along the ground. 45 For I, the Lord , am the one who brought you up from the land of Egypt, that I might be your God. Therefore, you must be holy because I am holy. 46 "These are the instructions regarding land animals, birds, marine creatures, and animals that scurry along the ground. 47 By these instructions you will know what is unclean and clean, and which animals may be eaten and which may not be eaten."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

that bringeth: Exodus 6:7, Psalms 105:43-45

be holy: Leviticus 11:44, Exodus 6:7, Exodus 20:2, Psalms 105:43-45, Hosea 11:1, 1 Thessalonians 4:7

Reciprocal: Exodus 19:6 - and an Exodus 19:10 - sanctify Exodus 22:31 - holy Leviticus 19:2 - Ye shall Leviticus 21:8 - for I Leviticus 22:33 - General Leviticus 25:38 - and to be Numbers 15:40 - be holy Deuteronomy 14:2 - General Psalms 114:2 - General Isaiah 52:11 - touch Daniel 1:8 - defile Ephesians 5:1 - followers Hebrews 12:10 - partakers

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For I am the Lord that bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt,.... He had brought them out of it, and was now bringing them on in the wilderness towards Canaan's land, in order to settle them there; and this is observed, to show what obligations they lay under to him to observe his commands; for since he had done such great things for them, it became them to be obedient to him in all things: and the more, since his end herein was, as he observes to them,

to be your God; to make it appear that he was their God, and they were his special people, whom he had chosen for himself above all people upon the earth; that he was their King and their God, to protect and defend them, to provide for them, and take care of them, and bestow all good things on them proper for them:

ye shall therefore be holy, for I [am] holy; separate from all others as he was, living holy lives and conversations, agreeably to his will made known to them, in imitation or him who had chosen and called them to be his people; for, since holiness is his nature, it becomes them who are his house and family, his subjects and people.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

These verses set forth the spiritual ground on which the distinction between clean and unclean is based. Compare the marginal references and Leviticus 10:10; Leviticus 20:25-26; 1 Peter 1:15-16.

The basis of the obligation to maintain the distinction was the call of the Hebrews to be the special people of Yahweh. It was to he something in their daily life to remind them of the covenant which distinguished them from the nations of the world. By Jesus Christ it was revealed Matthew 15:11 to the elect people that they were no longer to he tied by the letter of the Law in regard to their food, but were to be left to the exercise of a regenerated judgment. They were to learn that the kingdom of God is not eating, or abstaining from, meats and drinks; but righteousness, and truth, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit (Romans 14:17. Compare Acts 10:15; 1 Timothy 4:4).


 
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