Parallel Verses

NET Bible

for I am the Lord who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be your God, and you are to be holy because I am holy.

New American Standard Bible

For I am the Lord who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be your God; thus you shall be holy, for I am holy.’”

King James Version

For I am the LORD that bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.

Holman Bible

For I am Yahweh, who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be your God, so you must be holy because I am holy.

International Standard Version

I am the LORD, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God. You are to be holy, because I am holy.

A Conservative Version

For I am LORD who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. Ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.

American Standard Version

For I am Jehovah that brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.

Amplified

For I am the Lord who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be your God; therefore you shall be holy, for I am holy.’”

Bible in Basic English

For I am the Lord, who took you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God; so be you holy, for I am holy.

Darby Translation

For I am Jehovah who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.

Julia Smith Translation

For I am Jehovah bringing up from the land of Egypt, to be to you for God: and ye shall be holy, for I am holy.

King James 2000

For I am the LORD that brings you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: you shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.

Lexham Expanded Bible

because I [am] Yahweh, who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be for you as God. Thus you shall be holy, because I [am] holy.

Modern King James verseion

For I am Jehovah who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For I am the LORD that brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God: be holy therefore, for I am holy.

New Heart English Bible

For I am the LORD who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.

The Emphasized Bible

for, I - Yahweh, am he that brought you up out of the land of Egypt, that I might become your God, - therefore shall ye be holy, for, holy, am, I.

Webster

For I am the LORD that bringeth you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.

World English Bible

For I am Yahweh who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.

Youngs Literal Translation

for I am Jehovah who am bringing you up out of the land of Egypt to become your God; and ye have been holy, for I am holy.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
For I am the Lord

Usage: 0

עלה 
`alah 
Usage: 890

you up out of the land
ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

of Egypt
מצרים 
Mitsrayim 
Usage: 681

to be your God
אלהים 
'elohiym 
Usage: 2600

קדשׁ קדושׁ 
Qadowsh 
Usage: 116

References

Hastings

Context Readings

Clean And Unclean Animals

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, 45 for I am the Lord who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be your God, and you are to be holy because I am holy. 46 This is the law of the land animals, the birds, all the living creatures that move in the water, and all the creatures that swarm on the land,

Cross References

Exodus 6:7

I will take you to myself for a people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the Lord your God, who brought you out from your enslavement to the Egyptians.

Exodus 20:2

"I, the Lord, am your God, who brought you from the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery.

Psalm 105:43-45

When he led his people out, they rejoiced; his chosen ones shouted with joy.

Leviticus 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 25:38

I am the Lord your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan -- to be your God.

Hosea 11:1

When Israel was a young man, I loved him like a son, and I summoned my son out of Egypt.

1 Thessalonians 4:7

For God did not call us to impurity but in holiness.

1 Peter 1:16

for it is written, "You shall be holy, because I am holy."

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