'Be Holy' in the Bible
because I [am] Yahweh your God, and you must keep yourselves sanctified, so that you shall be holy, because I [am] holy. And you must not make yourselves unclean with any swarmer that moves along on the land,
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.
"Speak to all the community of the {Israelites}, and say to them, 'You must be holy, because I, Yahweh your God, [am] holy.
But in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, offerings of praise for Yahweh.
" 'And you shall consecrate yourselves, and you shall be holy, because I [am] Yahweh your God.
And you shall be holy for me, because I, Yahweh, [am] holy, and I have singled you out from the nations to be mine.
They shall be holy to their God, and they shall not profane the name of their God, because they are bringing near the offerings made by fire to Yahweh--their God's food--and they shall be holy.
And you shall consecrate him, because he is bringing near your God's food; he shall be holy to you, since I, Yahweh, who consecrates you, [am] holy.
And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits [as] a wave offering {before} Yahweh; in addition to [the] two male lambs, they shall be holy for Yahweh for the priest.
Because it is a Jubilee, it shall be holy to you. You must eat its produce from the field.