Leviticus 20:26
You shall be holy unto me, because I the Lord am holy, and I have separated you from other people, that you should be mine.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Eritis mihi sancti, quia sanctus sum ego Dominus, et separavi vos a ceteris populis, ut essetis mei.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἔσεσθέ μοι ἅγιοι, ὅτι ἐγὼ ἅγιος, Κύριος ὁ θεὸς ὑμῶν, ὁ ἀφορίσας ὑμᾶς ἀπὸ πάντων τῶν ἐθνῶν εἶναι ἐμοί.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וִהְיִ֤יתֶם לִי֙ קְדֹשִׁ֔ים כִּ֥י קָד֖וֹשׁ אֲנִ֣י יְהוָ֑ה וָאַבְדִּ֥ל אֶתְכֶ֛ם מִן הָֽעַמִּ֖ים לִהְי֥וֹת לִֽי
Haydock's commentary
Mine. This is the reason of these different prescriptions, that they may know the dignity to which they have been raised, and may avoid the manners of the profane. (Calmet)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.