Leviticus 20:7

7 Therefore consecrate yourselves -you people must be holy, because I am ADONAI your God.

Leviticus 20:7 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 20:7

Sanctify yourselves therefore
By abstaining from such impious and idolatrous practices, and separating themselves from all that gave into them, as well as by observing the holy commandments of the Lord; otherwise internal sanctification is not the work of man, but of the Lord himself, as in ( Leviticus 20:8 ) :

and be ye holy;
or a separate people from all others in worship and conversation:

for I [am] the Lord your God;
who is a holy God, and therefore it became them to be holy, in imitation of him, ( Leviticus 19:2 ) .

Leviticus 20:7 In-Context

5 then I will set myself against him, his family and everyone who follows him to go fornicating after Molekh, and cut them off from their people.

6 "'The person who turns to spirit-mediums and sorcerers to go fornicating after them -I will set myself against him and cut him off from his people.

7 Therefore consecrate yourselves -you people must be holy, because I am ADONAI your God.

8 Observe my regulations, and obey them; I am ADONAI, who sets you apart to be holy.

9 "'A person who curses his father or mother must be put to death; having cursed his father or his mother, his blood is on him.