Leviticus 22:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁹ They shall keep my charge, so that they may not incur guilt and die because of it for having profaned them: I am the Lord; I sanctify them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ They shall therefore keep mine ordinance, lest they bear sin for it, and die therefore, if they profane it: I the LORD do sanctify them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ The priests therefore shall observe My ordinance, lest they bear sin for it and die thereby if they profane it. I am the Lord, Who sanctifies them.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ They shall therefore keep my charge, lest they bear sin for it, and die therein, if they profane it: I am Jehovah who sanctifieth them.

Common English Bible

⁹ The priests must keep my requirement so that they don’t become liable to punishment and die for having made it impure. I am the LORD, who makes them holy.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ Let them observe my precepts, so that they may not fall under sin, and die in the Sanctuary, when they will have defiled it. I am the Lord, who sanctifies them.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ Let them keep my precepts, that they may not fall into sin, and die in the sanctuary, when they shall have defiled it. I am the Lord who sanctify them.

Leviticus 22:9 Cross References

Exodus 28:43

They shall be worn by Aaron and his sons when they go into the tent of meeting or when they come near the altar to minister in the holy place, so that they do not bring guilt on themselves and die. This shall be a perpetual ordinance for him and for his descendants after him.

Leviticus 16:13

and put the incense on the fire before the Lord, that the cloud of the incense may shroud the cover that is upon the covenant, or he will die.

Leviticus 16:2

The Lord said to Moses: “Tell your brother Aaron not to come just at any time into the sanctuary inside the curtain before the cover that is upon the ark, or he will die, for I appear in the cloud upon the cover.

Leviticus 18:30

So keep my charge not to commit any of these abominations that were done before you and not to defile yourselves by them: I am the Lord your God.”

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.”

Numbers 18:22

From now on the Israelites shall no longer approach the tent of meeting, or else they will incur guilt and die.

Numbers 18:32

You shall incur no guilt by reason of it, when you have offered the best of it. But you shall not profane the holy gifts of the Israelites, on pain of death.”

Matthew 23:17

You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold or the sanctuary that has made the gold sacred?

Deuteronomy 11:1

“You shall love the Lord your God, therefore, and keep his charge, his decrees, his ordinances, and his commandments always.