26You shall be holy unto me, because I the Lord am holy, and I have separated you from other people, that you should be mine.


In Context

23 Walk not after the laws of the nations, which I will cast out before you. For they have done all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

24 But to you I say: Possess their land which I will give you for an inheritance, a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the Lord your God, who have separated you from other people.

25 Therefore do you also separate the clean beast from the unclean, and the clean fowl from the unclean: defile not your souls with beasts, or birds, or any things that move on the earth, and which I have shewn you to be unclean.

26 You shall be holy unto me, because I the Lord am holy, and I have separated you from other people, that you should be mine.

27 A man, or woman, in whom there is a pythonical or divining spirit, dying let them die: they shall stone them: their blood be upon them.

Leviticus 20:26 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:26And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the LORD [am] holy, and have severed you from [other] people, that ye should be mine.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

20:26You are to be holy to me because I, the Lord , am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be my own.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

20:26And ye shall be holy unto me: for I, Jehovah, am holy, and have set you apart from the peoples, that ye should be mine.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:26And ye shall be holy unto me; for I Jehovah am holy, and have separated you from the peoples to be mine.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

20:26And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the LORD am holy, and have separated you from the peoples, that ye should be mine.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:26And ye shall be holy to me: for I the LORD am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:26You shall be holy to me: for I, Yahweh, am holy, and have set you apart from the peoples, that you should be mine.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

20:26and ye have been holy to Me; for holy am I, Jehovah; and I separate you from the peoples to become Mine.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:26And you shall be holy to me: for I the LORD am holy, and have severed you from other people, that you should be mine.