Observe my Sabbaths and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am the Lord. The Sabbath and the sanctuary are paired — the temporal and the spatial expressions of the covenant community's reverence. The Sabbath observance and the sanctuary reverence together communicate the comprehensive character of the holiness that I am the Lord requires: the covenant community honors God in time (Sabbath) and in space (sanctuary). The pairing appears twice in Leviticus 19 (also verse 3), framing the entire chapter with the covenant's temporal and spatial holiness.

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