Leviticus 20:25-26
New English Translation
25 Therefore you must distinguish[a] between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean bird and the clean, and you must not make yourselves detestable by means of an animal or bird or anything that creeps on the ground—creatures[b] I have distinguished for you as unclean.[c] 26 You must be holy to me because I, the Lord, am holy, and I have set you apart from the other peoples to be mine.
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- Leviticus 20:25 tn Heb “And you shall distinguish.” The verb is the same as “set apart” at the end of the previous verse. The fact that God had “set them apart” from the other peoples around them called for them to “distinguish between” the clean and the unclean, etc.
- Leviticus 20:25 tn The word “creatures” has been supplied in the translation to make it clear that the following relative clause modifies the animal, bird, or creeping thing mentioned earlier, and not the ground itself.
- Leviticus 20:25 tc The MT has “to defile,” but Smr, LXX, and Syriac have “to uncleanness.”
Leviticus 20:25-26
Christian Standard Bible
25 Therefore you are to distinguish the clean animal from the unclean one, and the unclean bird from the clean one. Do not become contaminated(A) by any land animal, bird, or whatever crawls on the ground; I have set these apart as unclean for you.(B) 26 You are to be holy to me because I, the Lord, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be mine.(C)
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