Leviticus 21:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ Thou shalt sanctify him therefore; for he offereth the bread of thy God: he shall be holy unto thee: for I the LORD, which sanctify you, am holy.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ You shall consecrate him therefore, for he offers the bread of your God; he shall be holy to you, for I the Lord Who sanctifies you am holy.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ Thou shalt sanctify him therefore; for he offereth the bread of thy God: he shall be holy unto thee; for I Jehovah, who sanctify you, am holy.

Common English Bible

⁸ You will treat the priests as holy, because they offer your God’s food. The priests will be holy to you, because I am the holy LORD, who makes you holy.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ and they offer the bread of the presence. Therefore, let them be holy, for I also am holy: the Lord, who sanctifies them.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ And offer the loaves of proposition. Let them therefore be holy because I also am holy, the Lord, who sanctify them.

Leviticus 21:8 Cross References

Nehemiah 13:29

Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, the covenant of the priests and the Levites.

Exodus 19:10

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

Exodus 19:14

So Moses went down from the mountain to the people. He consecrated the people, and they washed their clothes.

Exodus 28:41

You shall put them on your brother Aaron and on his sons with him and shall anoint them and ordain them and consecrate them, so that they may serve me as priests.

Exodus 29:1

“Now this is what you shall do to them to consecrate them to serve me as priests. Take one young bull and two rams without blemish,

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 21:6

They shall be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God, for they offer the Lord’s offerings by fire, the food of their God; therefore they shall be holy.

Leviticus 22:16

causing them to bear guilt requiring a guilt offering, by eating their sacred donations, for I am the Lord; I sanctify them.”

Leviticus 3:11

Then the priest shall turn these into smoke on the altar as a food offering by fire to the Lord.

Malachi 1:7

By offering polluted food on my altar. And you say, “How have we polluted it?” By thinking that the Lord’s table may be despised.

Numbers 28:2

“Command the Israelites, and say to them: My offering, the food for my offerings by fire, my pleasing odor, you shall take care to offer to me at its appointed time.

John 10:36

can you say that the one whom the Father has sanctified and sent into the world is blaspheming because I said, ‘I am God’s Son’?

John 17:19

And for their sakes I sanctify myself, so that they also may be sanctified in truth.

Hebrews 10:29

How much worse punishment do you think will be deserved by those who have spurned the Son of God, profaned the blood of the covenant by which they were sanctified, and outraged the Spirit of grace?

Hebrews 7:26

For it was fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, blameless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.