8Thou 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.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the LORD your God. …
For I am the LORD your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. …
Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God am holy.
They shall be holy unto their God, and not profane the name of their God: for the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and the bread of their God, they do offer: therefore they shall be holy.
And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)It was before appointed that the priests should teach the people the statutes God had given concerning the difference between clean and unclean , Lev. 10:10 , 11 . Now here it is provided that they should themselves observe what they were to teach the people. Note, Those whose office it is to instruct must do it by example as well as precept, 1 Tim. 4:12. The priests were to draw nearer to God tha…
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