He said to them, “Listen to me, Levites! Sanctify yourselves, and sanctify the house of the Lord, the God of your ancestors, and carry out the filth from the holy place.
Psalm 93:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Your decrees are very sure; holiness befits your house, O Lord, forevermore. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Thy testimonies are very sure: Holiness becometh thine house, O LORD, for ever. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Your testimonies are very sure; holiness [apparent in separation from sin, with simple trust and hearty obedience] is becoming to Your house, O Lord, forever. American Standard Version (1901) Thy testimonies are very sure: Holiness becometh thy house, O Jehovah, for evermore. Common English Bible Your laws are so faithful. Holiness decorates your house, LORD, for all time. Catholic Public Domain Version They have humiliated your people, O Lord, and they have harassed your inheritance. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Thy people, O Lord, they have brought low: and they have afflicted thy inheritance. |
He said to them, “Listen to me, Levites! Sanctify yourselves, and sanctify the house of the Lord, the God of your ancestors, and carry out the filth from the holy place.
You have appointed your decrees in righteousness and in all faithfulness.
Your decrees are righteous forever; give me understanding that I may live.
Ascribe to the Lord the glory of his name; worship the Lord in holy splendor.
Extol the Lord our God, and worship at his holy mountain, for the Lord our God is holy.
“You shall make a rosette of pure gold and engrave on it, like the engraving of a signet, ‘Holy to the Lord.’
Depart, depart, go out from there! Touch no unclean thing; go out from the midst of it; purify yourselves, you who carry the vessels of the Lord.
for teaching and for instruction?” surely those who speak like this will have no dawn!
This is the law of the temple: the whole territory on the top of the mountain all around shall be most holy. This is the law of the temple.
Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what the Lord meant when he said, ‘Through those who are near me I will show myself holy, and before all the people I will be glorified.’ ” And Aaron was silent.
“Speak to all the congregation of the Israelites and say to them: You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
Pursue peace with everyone and the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.
But nothing unclean will enter it, nor anyone who practices abomination or falsehood, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.