Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Be holy unto me, for I the LORD am holy and have severed you from other nations: that ye should be mine.
New American Standard Bible
Thus you are to be holy to Me, for I the Lord am holy; and I
King James Version
And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the LORD am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine.
Holman Bible
You are to be holy to Me because I, Yahweh, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be Mine.
International Standard Version
"You are to be holy toward me, because I, the LORD, am holy. I've separated you from among the people to be mine.
A Conservative Version
And ye shall be holy to me, for I, LORD, am holy, and have set you apart from the peoples, that ye should be mine.
American Standard Version
And ye shall be holy unto me: for I, Jehovah, am holy, and have set you apart from the peoples, that ye should be mine.
Amplified
You are to be holy to Me; for I the Lord am holy, and have set you apart from the peoples (nations) to be Mine.
Bible in Basic English
And you are to be holy to me; for I the Lord am holy and have made you separate from the nations, so that you may be my people.
Darby Translation
And ye shall be holy unto me; for I Jehovah am holy, and have separated you from the peoples to be mine.
Julia Smith Translation
And, ye were holy to me: for I Jehovah am holy, and I will separate you from the nations to be to me.
King James 2000
And you shall be holy unto me: for I the LORD am holy, and have separated you from other people, that you should be mine.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And you shall be holy for me, because I, Yahweh, [am] holy, and I have singled you out from the nations to be mine.
Modern King James verseion
And you shall be holy to Me. For I, Jehovah, am holy, and have severed you from the nations, so that you should be Mine.
NET Bible
You must be holy to me because I, the Lord, am holy, and I have set you apart from the other peoples to be mine.
New Heart English Bible
You shall be holy to me: for I, the LORD, am holy, and have set you apart from the peoples, that you should be mine.
The Emphasized Bible
Therefore shall ye be unto me, holy persons, for, holy, am, I - Yahweh, - Therefore have I distinguished you from the peoples, that ye may be mine.
Webster
And ye shall be holy to me: for I the LORD am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine.
World English Bible
You shall be holy to me: for I, Yahweh, am holy, and have set you apart from the peoples, that you should be mine.
Youngs Literal Translation
and ye have been holy to Me; for holy am I, Jehovah; and I separate you from the peoples to become Mine.
Themes
Israel » Separation of » Of israel from the heathen, encouraged
Israel/jews » The lord separating israel from all other people
Interlinear
Badal
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Leviticus 20:26
Verse Info
Context Readings
You Shall Be Holy
25 that ye should put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and them that are clean. Make not your souls therefore abominable with beasts and fowls, and with all manner thing that creepeth upon the ground, which I have separated unto you to hold them unclean. 26 Be holy unto me, for I the LORD am holy and have severed you from other nations: that ye should be mine. 27 "'If there be man or woman that worketh with a spirit or a maker of dismal days, they shall die for it. Men shall stone them with stones, and their blood shall be upon them.'"
Names
Cross References
Leviticus 19:2
"Speak unto all the multitude of the children of Israel, and say unto them, 'Be holy for I, the LORD your God, am holy.
Leviticus 20:7
Sanctify yourselves therefore and be holy, for I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus 20:24
But I have said unto you that ye shall enjoy their land, and that I will give it unto you to possess it: even a land that floweth with milk and honey. I am the LORD your God, which have separated you from other nations:
Deuteronomy 7:6
For thou art a holy nation unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a several people unto himself of all nations that are upon the earth.
Deuteronomy 14:2
For thou art a holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a several people unto himself, of all the nations that are upon the earth.
Deuteronomy 26:18-19
And the LORD hath set thee up this day, to be a several people unto him - as he hath promised thee - and that thou keep his commandments,
Psalm 99:5
O magnify the LORD our God; fall down before his footstool, for he is holy.
Psalm 99:9
O magnify the LORD our God, and worship him upon his holy hill; for the LORD our God is holy.
Isaiah 6:3
They cried also each one to other on this manner: "Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of Hosts! The whole world is full of his glory!"
Isaiah 30:11
Tread out of the way, go out of the path, turn the holy one of Israel from us."
Titus 2:14
which gave himself for us, to redeem us from all unrighteousness, and to purge us a peculiar people unto himself, fervently given unto good works.
1 Peter 1:15-16
But as he which called you is holy, even so be ye holy in all manner of conversation,
Revelation 3:7
"And write unto the tidings-bringer of the congregation of Philadelphia, 'This saith he that is holy and true, which hath the key of David; which openeth and no man shutteth, and shutteth and no man openeth.
Revelation 4:8
And the four beasts had, each one of them, six wings about him, and they were full of eyes within. And they had no rest day neither night saying, "Holy, holy, holy, Lord God almighty, which was, and is, and is to come."