Leviticus 11:44
11:44 for I am the
Lord your God and you are to sanctify yourselves and be holy because I am holy. You must not defile yourselves by any of the swarming things that creep on the ground,
Leviticus 18:30
18:30 You must obey my charge to not practice any of the abominable statutes
1 that have been done before you, so that you do not
2 defile yourselves by them. I am the
Lord your God.’”
Leviticus 19:2
19:2 “Speak to the whole congregation of the Israelites and tell them, ‘You must be holy because I, the
Lord your God, am holy.
Ezekiel 20:5
20:5 and say to them:
“‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: On the day I chose Israel I swore 3 to the descendants 4 of the house of Jacob and made myself known to them in the land of Egypt. I swore 5 to them, “I am the Lord your God.”
1 tn Heb “to not do from the statutes of the detestable acts.”
2 tn Heb “and you will not.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative force here.
3 tn Heb “I lifted up my hand.”
4 tn Heb “seed.”
5 tn Heb “I lifted up my hand.”