Leviticus 21:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

You shall sanctify him therefore; 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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Other Translations

  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    You shall sanctify him, for he brings the bread of your God. He shall be holy to you because I, the LORD who sanctifies you, am holy.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    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.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    Thou shalt sanctify{H6942} him therefore; for he offereth{H7126} the bread{H3899} of thy God:{H430} he shall be holy{H6918} unto thee: for I Jehovah,{H3068} who sanctify{H6942} you, am holy.{H6918}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    Thou shalt sanctify{H6942}{(H8765)} him therefore; for he offereth{H7126}{(H8688)} the bread{H3899} of thy God{H430}: he shall be holy{H6918} unto thee: for I the LORD{H3068}, which sanctify{H6942}{(H8764)} you, am holy{H6918}.

  • Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

    Sanctifie him therfore, for he offereth vp the bred of God: he shal therfore be holy vnto the, for I the Lorde whiche sanctifie you, am holy.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    therfore shal he sanctifie him self, for he offreth the bred of thy God. He shal be holy vnto the, for I am holy, even the LORDE that sanctifieth you.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Thou shalt sanctifie him therefore, for he offereth the bread of thy God: he shall be holy vnto thee: for I the Lorde, which sanctifie you, am holy.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Thou shalt sanctifie hym therfore, for he offereth vp the bread of thy God: he shall therefore be holy vnto thee, for I the Lorde which sanctifie you, am holy.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    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.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    You shall sanctify him therefore; for he offers the bread of your God: he shall be holy to you: for I Yahweh, who sanctify you, am holy.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    and thou hast sanctified him, for the bread of thy God he is bringing near; he is holy to thee; for holy `am' I, Jehovah, sanctifying you.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    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.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    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.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    And he is to be holy in your eyes, for by him the bread of your God is offered; he is to be holy in your eyes, for I the Lord, who make you holy, am holy.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    You shall sanctify him therefore; for he offers the bread of your God: he shall be holy to you: for I Yahweh, who sanctify you, am holy.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    You must sanctify him because he presents the food of your God. He must be holy to you because I, the LORD who sanctifies you all, am holy.

Referenced Verses

  • Lev 21:6 : 6 They shall be holy to their God, and not profane the name of their God: for they offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and the bread of their God: therefore they shall be holy.
  • John 10:36 : 36 Do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, You blaspheme, because I said, I am the Son of God?
  • John 17:19 : 19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
  • Heb 7:26 : 26 For such a high priest was fitting for us, who is holy, innocent, undefiled, separate from sinners, and exalted above the heavens;
  • Heb 10:29 : 29 Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace?
  • Exod 19:10 : 10 And the LORD said to Moses, Go to the people, and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their clothes,
  • Exod 19:14 : 14 And Moses went down from the mount to the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.
  • Exod 28:41 : 41 And you shall put them on Aaron your brother and on his sons with him. You shall anoint them, consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may serve Me as priests.
  • Exod 29:1 : 1 And this is what you shall do to them to consecrate them, to minister to me in the priest's office: Take one young bull, and two rams without blemish,
  • Exod 29:43-44 : 43 And there I will meet with the children of Israel, and the tabernacle shall be sanctified by my glory. 44 I will sanctify the tabernacle of meeting and the altar. I will also sanctify both Aaron and his sons to minister to me in the priest's office.
  • Lev 11:44-45 : 44 For I am the LORD your God: therefore you shall sanctify yourselves, and you shall be holy; for I am holy: nor shall you defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creeps upon the earth. 45 For I am the LORD who brings you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: therefore you shall be holy, for I am holy.
  • Lev 19:2 : 2 Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say to them, You shall be holy, for I the LORD your God am holy.
  • Lev 20:7-8 : 7 Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy: for I am the LORD your God. 8 And you shall keep my statutes and do them: I am the LORD who sanctifies you.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Lev 21:6-7
    2 verses
    85%

    6 They shall be holy to their God, and not profane the name of their God: for they offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and the bread of their God: therefore they shall be holy.

    7 They shall not take a wife who is a whore, or profane; nor shall they take a woman divorced from her husband: for he is holy to his God.

  • Lev 21:21-23
    3 verses
    84%

    21 No man who has a blemish of the descendants of Aaron the priest shall come near to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire: he has a blemish; he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God.

    22 He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.

    23 Only he shall not go beyond the veil, nor come near the altar, because he has a blemish; that he does not profane my sanctuaries: for I the LORD do sanctify them.

  • Lev 20:7-8
    2 verses
    82%

    7 Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy: for I am the LORD your God.

    8 And you shall keep my statutes and do them: I am the LORD who sanctifies you.

  • Lev 19:2
    80%

    2 Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say to them, You shall be holy, for I the LORD your God am holy.

  • Lev 20:26
    80%

    26 And you shall be holy to me: for I the LORD am holy, and have separated you from other people, that you should be mine.

  • Lev 21:15-16
    2 verses
    80%

    15 Neither shall he profane his descendants among his people: for I the LORD do sanctify him.

    16 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Lev 22:15-17
    3 verses
    79%

    15 And they shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, which they offer unto the LORD;

    16 Or cause them to bear the iniquity of trespass, when they eat their holy things: for I the LORD do sanctify them.

    17 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,

  • Lev 22:31-32
    2 verses
    79%

    31 Therefore you shall keep my commandments, and do them: I am the LORD.

    32 Neither shall you profane my holy name; but I will be hallowed among the children of Israel: I am the LORD who sanctifies you,

  • Lev 11:44-45
    2 verses
    78%

    44 For I am the LORD your God: therefore you shall sanctify yourselves, and you shall be holy; for I am holy: nor shall you defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.

    45 For I am the LORD who brings you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: therefore you shall be holy, for I am holy.

  • Lev 22:9-10
    2 verses
    78%

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

    10 No stranger shall eat of the holy thing: a temporary resident of the priest, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.

  • Exod 30:29
    78%

    29 And you shall sanctify them, that they may be most holy; whoever touches them must be holy.

  • Num 18:9-10
    2 verses
    78%

    9 This shall be yours of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: every offering of theirs, every grain offering of theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and every trespass offering of theirs, which they shall render to me, shall be most holy for you and for your sons.

    10 In the most holy place you shall eat it; every male shall eat it: it shall be holy to you.

  • Lev 22:1-3
    3 verses
    77%

    1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,

    2 Speak unto Aaron and his sons, that they set themselves apart from the holy things of the children of Israel, and that they do not profane my holy name in those things which they consecrate unto me: I am the LORD.

    3 Say unto them, Whoever he be of all your descendants throughout your generations, that approaches the holy things, which the children of Israel dedicate unto the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from my presence: I am the LORD.

  • Num 6:8
    77%

    8 All the days of his separation he is holy to the LORD.

  • Lev 19:30
    76%

    30 You shall keep my sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.

  • Lev 6:17-18
    2 verses
    75%

    17 It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it to them for their portion of my offerings made by fire; it is most holy, as is the sin offering, and as the trespass offering.

    18 All the males among the children of Aaron shall eat it. It shall be a statute forever in your generations concerning the offerings of the LORD made by fire: everyone who touches them shall be holy.

  • Exod 29:33-34
    2 verses
    75%

    33 They shall eat those things with which the atonement was made, to consecrate and sanctify them; but a stranger shall not eat them, because they are holy.

    34 And if any of the flesh of the consecrations or of the bread remains until the morning, then you shall burn the remainder with fire. It shall not be eaten, because it is holy.

  • 1 Pet 1:16
    75%

    16 Because it is written, "Be holy; for I am holy."

  • Lev 7:6
    75%

    6 Every male among the priests shall eat it: it shall be eaten in a holy place: it is most holy.

  • Lev 22:25-26
    2 verses
    75%

    25 Neither from a stranger's hand shall you offer the bread of your God of any of these; because their corruption is in them, and blemishes are in them: they shall not be accepted for you.

    26 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,

  • Lev 22:7
    74%

    7 And when the sun is down, he shall be clean, and afterward may eat of the holy things; because it is his food.

  • Lev 21:12
    74%

    12 Neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am the LORD.

  • Lev 26:2
    74%

    2 You shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.

  • Lev 10:13
    74%

    13 You shall eat it in a holy place because it is your due and your sons' due of the sacrifices of the Lord made by fire, for so I am commanded.

  • Exod 29:27
    74%

    27 And you shall consecrate the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the heave offering, which is waved and raised, of the ram of the consecration, from what was for Aaron and what was for his sons.

  • Exod 31:13
    73%

    13 Speak also to the children of Israel, saying, Truly my Sabbaths you shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that you may know that I am the LORD who sanctifies you.

  • Exod 29:31
    73%

    31 And you shall take the ram of the consecration and boil its flesh in the holy place.

  • Lev 17:8
    73%

    8 And you shall say to them, Whatever man there is of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who dwell among you, that offers a burnt offering or sacrifice,

  • Lev 2:8
    73%

    8 And you shall bring the grain offering made of these things to the LORD; and when it is presented to the priest, he shall bring it to the altar.

  • Exod 29:37
    73%

    37 Seven days you shall make atonement for the altar and sanctify it, and the altar shall be most holy. Whatever touches the altar must be holy.

  • Lev 27:9
    73%

    9 And if it is a beast, of which men bring an offering to the LORD, all that any man gives of such to the LORD shall be holy.

  • Lev 19:8
    73%

    8 Therefore everyone who eats it shall bear his iniquity, because he has profaned the holy thing of the LORD: and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

  • Num 8:14
    73%

    14 Thus shall you separate the Levites from among the children of Israel, and the Levites shall be mine.

  • Lev 6:29
    73%

    29 All the males among the priests shall eat of it: it is most holy.