Keep all my decrees and all my laws and follow them. I am the Lord. The comprehensive closing command of the Holiness Code's central chapter: keep all my decrees and all my laws. The all communicates the comprehensiveness of the obedience required: not selected regulations, not the convenient ones, but all. The I am the Lord that closes Leviticus 19 is the same formula that opened it in verse 2 and that has punctuated it throughout. The chapter that began in the identity of God ends in the identity of God: the source of the holiness that Israel is called to embody is the Lord who is their God.

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