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Selected Verse: Leviticus 20:7 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Le 20:7 |
Strong Concordance |
Sanctify [06942] yourselves therefore, and be ye holy [06918]: for I am the LORD [03068] your God [0430]. |
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King James |
Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the LORD your God. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy--The minute specification of the incestuous and unnatural crimes here enumerated shows their sad prevalence amongst the idolatrous nations around, and the extreme proneness of the Israelites to follow the customs of their neighbors. It is to be understood, that, whenever mention is made that the offender was "to be put to death" without describing the mode, stoning is meant. The only instance of another form of capital punishment occurs in Lev 20:14, that of being burnt with fire; and yet it is probable that even here death was first inflicted by stoning, and the body of the criminal afterwards consumed by fire (Jos 7:15). |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
| For the Israelites were to sanctify themselves, i.e., to keep themselves pure from all idolatrous abominations, to be holy because Jehovah was holy (Lev 11:44; Lev 19:2), and to keep the statutes of their God who sanctified them (Exo 31:13). |
15 And it shall be, that he that is taken [03920] with the accursed thing [02764] shall be burnt [08313] with fire [0784], he and all that he hath: because he hath transgressed [05674] the covenant [01285] of the LORD [03068], and because he hath wrought [06213] folly [05039] in Israel [03478].
14 And if a man [0376] take [03947] a wife [0802] and her mother [0517], it is wickedness [02154]: they shall be burnt [08313] with fire [0784], both he and they; that there be no wickedness [02154] among [08432] you.
13 Speak [01696] thou also unto the children [01121] of Israel [03478], saying [0559], Verily [0389] my sabbaths [07676] ye shall keep [08104]: for it is a sign [0226] between me and you throughout your generations [01755]; that ye may know [03045] that I am the LORD [03068] that doth sanctify [06942] you.
2 Speak [01696] unto all the congregation [05712] of the children [01121] of Israel [03478], and say [0559] unto them, Ye shall be holy [06918]: for I the LORD [03068] your God [0430] am holy [06918].
44 For I am the LORD [03068] your God [0430]: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves [06942], and ye shall be holy [06918]; for I am holy [06918]: neither shall ye defile [02930] yourselves [05315] with any manner of creeping thing [08318] that creepeth [07430] upon the earth [0776].