“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.”
I am the Lord your God; consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am holy. Do not make yourselves unclean by any creature that moves along the ground. The foundational theological grounding for the entire dietary law: I am the Lord your God; I am holy; be holy. The clean/unclean regulations are not arbitrary dietary restrictions but the community's expression of the holiness of the God who dwells in their midst. 1 Peter 1:16 quotes this verse directly — be holy, because I am holy — as the summary of the new covenant's ethical standard. The holiness that the dietary laws express in bodily terms is the holiness that Peter applies to the entire conduct of the community's life.
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