¹⁶ for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.”^[a](A)

⁴⁴ I am the Lord your God;^(A) consecrate yourselves^(B) and be holy,^(C) because I am holy.^(D) Do not make yourselves unclean by any creature that moves along the ground.^(E)

⁷ “‘Consecrate yourselves^(A) and be holy,^(B) because I am the Lord your God.^(C)

² “Speak to the entire assembly of Israel^(A) and say to them: ‘Be holy because I, the Lord your God,^(B) am holy.^(C)