Leviticus 11:44 BSB

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.

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ASV

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.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Ye shall - sanctify yourselves - Ye shall keep yourselves separate from all the people of the earth, that ye may be holy; for I am holy. And this was the grand design of God in all these prohibitions and commands; for these external sanctifications were only the emblems of the internal purity which the holiness of God requires here, and without which none can dwell with him in glory hereafter. See at the conclusion of this chapter. The contents of this chapter must furnish many profitable reflections to a pious mind.

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The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Thus these rudiments of the world were their tutors and governors ( Gal. iv. 2, 3 ), to bring them to that which is the revival of our first state in Adam and the earnest of our best state with Christ, that is, holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord. This is indeed the great design of all the ordinances, that by them we may sanctify ourselves and learn to be holy.

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Original language & word study

19 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כִּ֣י	ki	for	H3588 →
אֲנִ֣י	'a.Ni	I	H589 →
יְהוָה֮	Yah.weh	[am] Yahweh	H3068 →
אֱלֹֽהֵיכֶם֒	'e.lo.hei.Khem	God your	H430 →
וְהִתְקַדִּשְׁתֶּם֙	ve.hit.ka.dish.Tem	and you will keep yourselves holy	H6942 →
וִהְיִיתֶ֣ם	vih.yi.Tem	and you will be	H1961 →
קְדֹשִׁ֔ים	ke.do.Shim	holy	H6918 →
כִּ֥י	ki	for	H3588 →
קָד֖וֹשׁ	ka.Do.osh	[am] holy	H6918 →
אָ֑נִי	'A.ni	I	H589 →
וְלֹ֤א	ve.Lo'	and not	H3808 →
תְטַמְּאוּ֙	te.ta.me.'U	you must make unclean	H2930 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
נַפְשֹׁ֣תֵיכֶ֔ם	naf.Sho.tei.Khem	selves your	H5315 →
בְּכָל־	be.khol	by any	H3605 →
הַשֶּׁ֖רֶץ	ha.She.retz	<the> swarming thing	H8318 →
הָרֹמֵ֥שׂ	ha.ro.Mes	which creeps	H7430 →
עַל־	'al-	on	H5921 →
הָאָֽרֶץ׃	ha.'A.retz	the earth	H776 →

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Leviticus 20:26
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.
leads to
- 1 Peter 1:15–16
  But just as He who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do,
  Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
Through
Leviticus 19:2
“Speak to the whole congregation of Israel and tell them: Be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy.
leads to
- Leviticus 20:7
  Consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, because I am the LORD your God.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Leviticus 11:44–45
  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.
Through
Exodus 20:2
“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
leads to
- Deuteronomy 5:6
  “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
- Hosea 13:4
  Yet I am the LORD your God ever since the land of Egypt; you know no God but Me, for there is no Savior besides Me.
- Leviticus 26:13
  I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so that you would no longer be slaves to the Egyptians. I broke the bars of your yoke and…
- Psalms 81:10
  I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of Egypt. Open wide your mouth, and I will fill it.
Through
Leviticus 20:7
Consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, because I am the LORD your God.
leads to
- Leviticus 19:2
  “Speak to the whole congregation of Israel and tell them: Be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Leviticus

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Leviticus