Leviticus 11:44 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴⁴ For I am the Lord your God; sanctify yourselves, therefore, and be holy, for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any swarming creature that moves on the earth.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴⁴ For I am the LORD your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴⁴ For I am the Lord your God; so consecrate yourselves and be holy, for I am holy; neither defile yourselves with any manner of thing that multiplies in large numbers or swarms. [I Thess. 4:7, 8.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴⁴ For I am Jehovah your God: sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that moveth upon the earth.

Common English Bible

⁴⁴ I am the LORD your God. You must keep yourselves holy and be holy, because I am holy. You must not make yourselves unclean by any swarming creature that crawls on the ground.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴⁴ For I am the Lord your God. Be holy, for I am Holy. Do not pollute your souls with any creeping thing, which moves across the land.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴⁴ For I am the Lord your God. Be holy because I am holy. Defile not your souls by any creeping thing, that moveth upon the earth.

Leviticus 11:44 Cross References

Psalm 99:5

Extol the Lord our God; worship at his footstool. Holy is he!

Psalm 99:9

Extol the Lord our God, and worship at his holy mountain, for the Lord our God is holy.

Exodus 16:12

“I have heard the complaining of the Israelites; say to them, ‘At twilight you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall have your fill of bread; then you shall know that I am the Lord your God.’ ”

Exodus 19:10

the Lord said to Moses, “Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow. Have them wash their clothes

Exodus 19:6

but you shall be for me a priestly kingdom and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you shall speak to the Israelites.”

Exodus 20:2

“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery;

Exodus 22:30

You shall do the same with your oxen and with your sheep: seven days it shall remain with its mother; on the eighth day you shall give it to me.

Exodus 22:31

“You shall be people consecrated to me, so you shall not eat any meat that is mangled by beasts in the field; you shall throw it to the dogs.

Exodus 23:25

You shall serve the Lord your God, and I will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from among you.

Exodus 6:7

I will take you as my people, and I will be your God. You shall know that I am the Lord your God, who has freed you from the burdens of the Egyptians.

Isaiah 43:3

For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I give Egypt as your ransom, Cush and Seba in exchange for you.

Isaiah 51:15

For I am the Lord your God, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar— the Lord of hosts is his name.

Leviticus 10:3

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.

Leviticus 11:43

You shall not make yourselves detestable with any creature that swarms; you shall not defile yourselves with them and so become unclean.

Leviticus 18:2

“Speak to the Israelites and say to them: I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 19:10

You shall not strip your vineyard bare or gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and the alien: I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 19:2

“Speak to all the congregation of the Israelites and say to them: You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.

Leviticus 19:3

You shall each revere your mother and father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 19:4

Do not turn to idols or make cast images for yourselves: I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 20:26

You shall be holy to me, for I the Lord am holy, and I have separated you from the other peoples to be mine.

Leviticus 20:7

Consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, for I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 21:8

and you shall treat them as holy, since they offer the food of your God; they shall be holy to you, for I the Lord, I who sanctify you, am holy.

Amos 3:3

Do two walk together unless they have made an appointment?

Numbers 15:40

So you shall remember and do all my commandments, and you shall be holy to your God.

Matthew 5:48

Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Deuteronomy 14:2

For you are a people holy to the Lord your God; it is you the Lord has chosen out of all the peoples on earth to be his people, his treasured possession.

1 Thessalonians 4:7

For God did not call us to impurity but in holiness.

Joshua 24:19

But Joshua said to the people, “You cannot serve the Lord, for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions or your sins.

1 Peter 2:9

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people, in order that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Revelation 22:11

Let the evildoer still do evil, and the filthy still be filthy, and the righteous still do right, and the holy still be holy.”

1 Samuel 2:2

There is no Holy One like the Lord, no one besides you; there is no Rock like our God.

1 Samuel 6:20

Then the people of Beth-shemesh said, “Who is able to stand before the Lord, this holy God? To whom shall he go so that we may be rid of him?”