²⁰If a man sleeps with his aunt, he has shamed his uncle; ^tthey will bear their guilt and die childless. ²¹If a man marries his brother’s wife, it is impurity. ^uHe has shamed his brother; ^vthey will be childless.

Holiness in the Land

²²“You are to keep all My statutes and all My ordinances, and do them, so that the land where I am bringing you to live will not vomit you out. ^w²³You must not follow the statutes of the nations I am driving out before you, for they did all these things, and I abhorred them. ^x²⁴And I promised you: You will inherit their land, since I will give it to you to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey. ^yI am Yahweh your God who set you apart from the peoples. ²⁵Therefore you must distinguish the clean animal from the unclean one, and the unclean bird from the clean one. Do not become contaminated ^zby any land animal, bird, or whatever crawls on the ground; I have set these apart as unclean for you. ^a²⁶You are to be holy to Me because I, Yahweh, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be Mine. ^b

Read in Logos

Leviticus 20:26: You shall be holy to me, for I the LORD am holy and have separated you from the peoples, that you should be mine.

Cross references

t20:20 Lv 18:14
u20:21 Mk 6:18
v20:21 Lv 18:16
w20:22 Lv 18:25
x20:23 Ex 23:24; Lv 18:3
y20:24 Ex 3:8; 13:5; Nm 14:8; 16:13–14
z20:25 Dt 7:26
a20:25 Lv 11:1–47
b20:26 Ex 19:5–6; Lv 11:44–45; Is 1:4; 6:3