Consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am the Lord your God. The positive command in the middle of the penalty section: consecrate yourselves and be holy. The holiness call of Leviticus 19:2 is repeated here within the penalty framework of chapter 20. The penalties that surround this verse communicate the stakes of holiness: the community that fails to be holy faces the consequences that the penalties describe. But the call to holiness is not primarily about avoiding penalties — it is grounded in the identity of God: because I am the Lord your God.

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