Leviticus 11:44

KJV1611 – Modern English

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.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    For I am the LORD your God. Consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am holy. Do not defile yourselves with any of the swarming creatures that move along the ground.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    For I am the LORD your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defi yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    For I am Jehovah your God: sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that moveth upon the earth.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    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.

  • Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

    For I am the Lorde youre God, be sanctified therfore that ye maye be holy, for I am holy: and defile not youre soules with any maner thinge that crepeth apon the erth.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    for I am the LORDE youre God. Therfore shal ye sanctifie youre selues, that ye maye be holy, for I am holy. And ye shal not defyle youre selues on eny maner of crepynge beest, that crepeth vpon earth:

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    For I am the Lord your God: be sanctified therefore, and be holy, for I am holy, and defile not your selues with any creeping thing, that creepeth vpon the earth.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    For I am the Lorde your God: Be sanctified therfore, and ye shalbe holy, for I am holy: and ye shall not defyle your soules with any maner of creeping thyng that creepeth vpon the earth:

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    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.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    For I am Yahweh your God. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am holy: neither shall you defile yourselves with any kind of creeping thing that moves on the earth.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    `For I `am' Jehovah your God, and ye have sanctified yourselves, and ye have been holy, for I `am' holy; and ye do not defile your persons with any teeming thing which is creeping on the earth;

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    For I am Jehovah your God: sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that moveth upon the earth.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    For I am Jehovah your God: sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that moveth upon the earth.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    For I am the Lord your God: for this reason, make and keep yourselves holy, for I am holy; you are not to make yourselves unclean with any sort of thing which goes about flat on the earth.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    For I am Yahweh your God. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am holy: neither shall you defile yourselves with any kind of creeping thing that moves on the earth.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    for I am the LORD your God and you are to sanctify yourselves and be holy because I am holy. You must not defile yourselves by any of the swarming things that creep on the ground,

Referenced Verses

  • 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 : 7 Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy: for I am the LORD your God.
  • 1 Thess 4:7 : 7 For God has not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
  • Lev 20:26 : 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.
  • Matt 5:48 : 48 Therefore be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.
  • 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;
  • Rev 22:11 : 11 He who is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he who is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he who is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he who is holy, let him be holy still.
  • Exod 19:6 : 6 And you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel.
  • Lev 21:8 : 8 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.
  • Deut 14:2 : 2 For you are a holy people to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a peculiar people to Himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.
  • 1 Sam 6:20 : 20 And the men of Beth Shemesh said, "Who is able to stand before this holy Lord God? And to whom shall He go up from us?"
  • Ps 99:5 : 5 Exalt the LORD our God, and worship at his footstool; for he is holy.
  • Ps 99:9 : 9 Exalt the LORD our God, and worship at his holy hill; for the LORD our God is holy.
  • Isa 6:3-5 : 3 And one called to another and said, Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts; the whole earth is full of His glory. 4 And the posts of the door were shaken at the voice of the one who called, and the house was filled with smoke. 5 Then I said, Woe is me, for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
  • Isa 43:3 : 3 For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior: I gave Egypt for your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in your place.
  • Exod 20:2 : 2 I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
  • 1 Pet 1:15-16 : 15 But as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct; 16 Because it is written, "Be holy; for I am holy."
  • Exod 6:7 : 7 And I will take you to myself for a people, and I will be to you a God: and you shall know that I am the LORD your God, who brings you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
  • Exod 23:25 : 25 So you shall serve the LORD your God, and he will bless your bread and your water. And I will take sickness away from among you.
  • Lev 10:3 : 3 Then Moses said to Aaron, This is what the Lord spoke, saying, 'I will be sanctified in those who come near Me, and before all the people I will be glorified.' And Aaron remained silent.
  • Isa 51:15 : 15 But I am the LORD your God, who divided the sea, whose waves roared: the LORD of hosts is his name.
  • Amos 3:3 : 3 Can two walk together, unless they are agreed?
  • Lev 11:43 : 43 You shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creeps, nor shall you make yourselves unclean with them, that you should be defiled by them.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 11:41-43
    3 verses
    88%

    41And every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth shall be an abomination; it shall not be eaten.

    42Whatever goes upon the belly, and whatever goes upon all fours, or whatever has many feet among all creeping things that creep upon the earth, them you shall not eat; for they are an abomination.

    43You shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creeps, nor shall you make yourselves unclean with them, that you should be defiled by them.

  • Lev 11:45-47
    3 verses
    87%

    45For 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.

    46This is the law of the animals, and of the birds, and of every living creature that moves in the waters, and of every creature that creeps upon the earth:

    47To make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the animal that may be eaten and the animal that may not be eaten.

  • Lev 20:7-8
    2 verses
    84%

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

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

  • Lev 20:25-26
    2 verses
    82%

    25You shall therefore make a difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean birds and clean: and you shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by bird, or by any manner of living thing that creeps on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.

    26And 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 19:2
    81%

    2Speak 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.

  • 1 Pet 1:15-16
    2 verses
    77%

    15But as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct;

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

  • Lev 18:30
    77%

    30Therefore you shall keep my ordinance, that you do not commit any of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that you do not defile yourselves by them: I am the LORD your God.

  • Lev 22:31-33
    3 verses
    76%

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

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

    33Who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the LORD.

  • Lev 18:24
    76%

    24Do not defile yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled, which I cast out before you.

  • Lev 21:8
    76%

    8You 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.

  • Num 35:34
    75%

    34Therefore do not defile the land which you shall inhabit, where I dwell: for I the LORD dwell among the children of Israel.

  • Lev 11:31
    75%

    31These are unclean to you among all that creep: whoever touches them, when they are dead, shall be unclean until the evening.

  • Lev 22:5-6
    2 verses
    74%

    5Or whoever touches any creeping thing, by which he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatever uncleanness he has;

    6The soul who has touched any such thing shall be unclean until evening, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he washes his flesh with water.

  • Lev 11:23-24
    2 verses
    74%

    23But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination to you.

    24And for these you shall be unclean: whoever touches the carcass of them shall be unclean until the evening.

  • Lev 19:30
    74%

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

  • Lev 26:2
    73%

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

  • Exod 22:31
    73%

    31And you shall be holy men to me; neither shall you eat any meat torn by beasts in the field; you shall throw it to the dogs.

  • Exod 30:29
    73%

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

  • Ezek 20:7
    72%

    7Then I said to them, Cast away every man the abominations of his eyes, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

  • 2 Cor 6:17
    72%

    17Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you.

  • Lev 18:27-28
    2 verses
    72%

    27For all these abominations have the men of the land done, who were before you, and the land is defiled;

    28That the land not spew you out also, when you defile it, as it spewed out the nations that were before you.

  • Lev 22:2-3
    2 verses
    72%

    2Speak 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.

    3Say 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.

  • Lev 10:10
    72%

    10that you may distinguish between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean;

  • Lev 22:8-9
    2 verses
    72%

    8What dies of itself, or is torn by beasts, he shall not eat to defile himself with it: I am the LORD.

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

  • Lev 11:26-28
    3 verses
    71%

    26The carcasses of every beast which divides the hoof, and is not cloven-footed, nor chews the cud, are unclean to you: everyone that touches them shall be unclean.

    27And whatever goes upon its paws, among all manner of beasts that go on all fours, those are unclean to you: whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening.

    28And he that carries the carcass of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening: they are unclean to you.

  • Deut 14:3
    71%

    3You shall not eat any abominable thing.

  • Deut 23:14
    71%

    14For the LORD your God walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver you and to give up your enemies before you; therefore shall your camp be holy, that He see no unclean thing in you, and turn away from you.

  • Lev 15:31
    71%

    31Thus shall you separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness; that they do not die in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is among them.

  • Lev 20:23
    71%

    23And you shall not walk in the manners of the nation which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

  • Lev 18:2-3
    2 verses
    71%

    2Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, I am the LORD your God.

    3You shall not do according to the practices of the land of Egypt, where you lived; and you shall not do according to the practices of the land of Canaan, where I bring you; you shall not walk in their ordinances.

  • Deut 14:19
    71%

    19And every creeping thing that flies is unclean to you: they shall not be eaten.

  • Exod 19:6
    71%

    6And you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel.

  • Lev 11:21
    71%

    21Yet these may you eat of every flying creeping thing that goes upon all fours, which have legs above their feet, to leap with upon the earth;