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.


In Context

23 And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nations which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

24 But I have said to you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess it, a land that floweth with milk and honey: I am the LORD your God, who have separated you from other people.

25 Ye shall therefore distinguish between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast or by fowl, or by any manner of living animal that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.

26 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.

27 A man also or a woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood shall 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 Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

20:26You shall be holy unto me, because I the Lord am holy, and I have separated you from other people, that you should be mine.

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 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.