You are to be holy to me because I, the Lord, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be my own. The summary of the Holiness Code's central chapters: be holy because I am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations. The election and the holiness command are inseparable: Israel is set apart, and the set-apartness requires the holiness that the preceding chapters have defined. The I am holy formula closes the chapter and the extended section as it opened it: the ground of Israel's holiness is the holiness of the God who claims them as his own.

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