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Land · Statutes · Clean and unclean Every step opens the verse it rests on.

BeginningLeviticus 20:22–23Israel is entering a land where the nations’ practices have brought judgment.“‘You shall therefore keep all my statutes and all my ordinances, and do them, that the land where I am bringing you to dwell may not vomit you out. v22 · WEB

In the commentarySet Apart from the Peoples

Live as a people set apart

1 Keep the statutes

So the land may not reject you

Do not walk in the nations’ customsLeviticus 20:22–23Keep the LORD’s statutes and rules. Do not walk in the customs of the nations the LORD is driving out.You shall not walk in the customs of the nation which I am casting out before you; for they did all these things, and therefore I abhorred them. v23 · WEB

In the commentarySet Apart from the Peoples

2 Make distinctions

Clean · unclean

Separate permitted from forbiddenLeviticus 20:25Distinguish clean animals from unclean, and clean birds from unclean. Do not make yourselves detestable through them.“‘You shall therefore make a distinction between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean. You shall not make… v25 · WEB

In the commentarySet Apart from the Peoples

3 Belong to the LORD

Set apart from peoples

Live as holy peopleLeviticus 20:26Be holy to the LORD, who has set Israel apart from the peoples to belong to him.You shall be holy to me, for I, Yahweh, am holy, and have set you apart from the peoples, that you should be mine. v26 · WEB

In the commentarySet Apart from the Peoples

Leviticus 20:22–26Live as a people set apart for the LORDYou shall be holy to me, for I, Yahweh, am holy, and have set you apart from the peoples, that you should be mine. v26 · WEB

In the commentarySet Apart from the Peoples

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