Leviticus 20:8

8 And you shall keep my statutes, and you shall do them; I [am] Yahweh who consecrates you.

Leviticus 20:8 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 20:8

And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them
Not only those respecting the above things, but all others, which would be a means of preserving them from sin, and of promoting holiness in their lives and conversations:

I [am] the Lord which sanctify you:
who had separated and distinguished them from all other people on earth, and who had given them holy laws, as the means of holiness; and who only could and did sanctify internally, by his Spirit and grace, such or them as were sanctified in heart, as well as outwardly.

Leviticus 20:8 In-Context

6 As for the person who turns to the mediums and the soothsayers to prostitute after them, I will set my face against that person, and I will cut him off from the midst of his people.

7 " 'And you shall consecrate yourselves, and you shall be holy, because I [am] Yahweh your God.

8 And you shall keep my statutes, and you shall do them; I [am] Yahweh who consecrates you.

9 " 'If [there is] {anyone} who curses his father or his mother, he shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father and his mother--his blood [is] upon him.

10 " 'As for a man who commits adultery with a man's wife, who commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, [both] the man who commits adultery and the woman who commits adultery shall surely be put to death.