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For I am Yahweh your God: sanctify yourselves therefore, and be you holy; for I am holy: neither shall you defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that moves on the earth.
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The Reason is God's Holiness
Commentators agree that the dietary laws were not arbitrary but were rooted in God's own nature. The command, "be ye holy; for I am holy," is the central reason for these rules. To be in communion with a holy God, His people were called to live a holy, set-apart life, and these laws were a daily, practical expression of that high calling.
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Leviticus
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18th Century
Presbyterian
These verses set forth the spiritual ground on which the distinction between clean and unclean is based. Compare the marginal references and Leviti…
19th Century
Anglican
For I am the Lord your God. —As the Lord who is their God is Himself holy, His people, in order to enjoy perfect communio…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For I [am] the Lord your God Their Lord, and therefore had a right to enjoin them what laws he pleased concerning th…
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These laws seem to have been intended,
As a test of the people's obedience, as Adam was forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge…
