LEVITICUS 20:8

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And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am the Lord which sanctify you.

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Leviticus 20:8 Translation & Meaning

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And ye shall keep וּשְׁמַרְתֶּם֙ Properly, to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e., guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc keep
my statutes, חֻקֹּתַ֔י A statute statutes
and do וַֽעֲשִׂיתֶ֖ם To do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application do
them: I אֲנִ֥י I them I
am (No Hebrew definition. English implied.)
the Lord יְהוָ֖ה (the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jeho-vah, Jewish national name of God Lord
which sanctify מְקַדִּשְׁכֶֽם׃ To be (causatively, make, pronounce or observe as) clean (ceremonially or morally) sanctify
you. מְקַדִּשְׁכֶֽם׃ To be (causatively, make, pronounce or observe as) clean (ceremonially or morally) you

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  • 6  And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.

  • 7  Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the Lord your God.

  • 8  And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am the Lord which sanctify you.

  • 9  For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

  • 10  And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.




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