Leviticus 21:8 - Revised Standard Version CI

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

Leviticus 21:8 Cross References

Nehemiah 13:29

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

Exodus 19:10

And the Lord said to Moses, “Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their garments,

Exodus 19:14

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

Exodus 28:41

And you shall put them upon Aaron your brother, and upon his sons with him, and shall anoint them and ordain them and consecrate them, that they may serve me as priests.

Exodus 29:1

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

Leviticus 19:2

“Say to all the congregation of the people of Israel, 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 offerings by fire to the Lord, the bread of their God; therefore they shall be holy.

Leviticus 22:16

and so cause them to bear iniquity and guilt, by eating their holy things: for I am the Lord who sanctify them.”

Leviticus 3:11

And the priest shall burn it on the altar as food offered by fire to the Lord.

Malachi 1:7

By offering polluted food upon 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 people of Israel, and say to them, ‘My offering, my food for my offerings by fire, my pleasing odor, you shall take heed to offer to me in its due season.’

John 10:36

do you say of him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?

John 17:19

And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be consecrated in truth.

Hebrews 10:29

How much worse punishment do you think will be deserved by the man who has spurned the Son of God, and profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and outraged the Spirit of grace?

Hebrews 7:26

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