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And you shall beוִהְיִיתֶםholyקְדֹשִׁיםto me,לִיforכִּיI,אֲנִיYHWH,יְהוָהam holy,קָדוֹשׁand I have separatedוָאַבְדִּלyouאֶתְכֶםfromמִןthe peoplesהָעַמִּיםto beלִהְיוֹתmine.לִי
Leviticus 20:26
Study it in the app“And you shall be holy to me, for I, YHWH, am holy, and I have separated you from the peoples to be mine.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Leviticus 20:26, word by word
- And you shall beהְיִיתֶםheyitem
be
To be: "I will be their Elohim".
Where else “heyitem” appears- holyקְדֹשִׁיםkedoshim
holy
Set apart for God, distinct from the common.
Where else “kedoshim” appears- YHWHיְהוָהyehva
YHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehva” appears- and I have separatedאַבְדִּלavdil
separate
Separate, make a distinction between two things; also set something apart for a purpose.
Where else “avdil” appears- the peoplesעַמִּיםamim
people
A group of people united by family, land and customs: a nation.
Where else “amim” appears
The context
25So you shall separate between the clean beast and the unclean, and between the unclean bird and the clean; and you shall not make yourselves detestable by beast or by bird or by anything that creeps on the ground, which I have separated for you as unclean.
26 · This verse (above)
27And a man or a woman in whom there is a spirit of the dead or a spirit of divination shall surely be put to death; they shall stone them with stones; their blood is on them.”