Leviticus 11:44 “For I am the LORD your God; consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be h…”

Leviticus 11:44

For I am the LORD your God; consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, because I am holy. You must not defile yourselves by any creature that crawls along the ground.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

For I am the LORD your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

World English Bible

For I am the LORD your God. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any kind of creeping thing that moves on the earth.

American Standard Version

For I am Jehovah your God: sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that moveth upon the earth.

Geneva Bible 1599

For I am the Lord your God: be sanctified therefore, and be holy, for I am holy, and defile not your selues with any creeping thing, that creepeth vpon the earth.

Darby Translation

For I am Jehovah your God; and ye shall hallow yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy; and ye shall not make yourselves unclean through any manner of crawling thing which creepeth on the earth.

Young's Literal Translation

'For I [am] Jehovah your God, and ye have sanctified yourselves, and ye have been holy, for I [am] holy; and ye do not defile your persons with any teeming thing which is creeping on the earth;

Bible in Basic English

For I am the Lord your God: for this reason, make and keep yourselves holy, for I am holy; you are not to make yourselves unclean with any sort of thing which goes about flat on the earth.

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Cross references

“I am the”

Exodus 20:2

Exodus 20:2 · BSB

“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

“ye shall”

Leviticus 19:2 Leviticus 20:7 Leviticus 20:26 1 Thessalonians 4:7 1 Peter 2:9 Deuteronomy 14:2

Leviticus 19:2 · BSB

“Speak to the whole congregation of Israel and tell them: Be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy.

Leviticus 20:7 · BSB

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

Leviticus 20:26 · BSB

You are to be holy to Me because I, the LORD, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be My own.

1 Thessalonians 4:7 · BSB

For God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness.

1 Peter 2:9 · BSB

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.

Deuteronomy 14:2 · BSB

for you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.

Also

Leviticus 21:8 Exodus 23:25 Leviticus 11:43 Exodus 6:7 Isaiah 43:3 Isaiah 51:15

Leviticus 21:8 · BSB

You are to regard him as holy, since he presents the food of your God. He shall be holy to you, because I the LORD am holy—I who set you apart.

Exodus 23:25 · BSB

So you shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless your bread and your water. And I will take away sickness from among you.

Leviticus 11:43 · BSB

Do not defile yourselves by any crawling creature; do not become unclean or defiled by them.

Exodus 6:7 · BSB

I will take you as My own people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians.

Isaiah 43:3 · BSB

For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior; I give Egypt for your ransom, Cush and Seba in your place.

Isaiah 51:15 · BSB

For I am the LORD your God who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar— the LORD of Hosts is His name.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

43Do not defile yourselves by any crawling creature; do not become unclean or defiled by them.

45For 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.

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