And who brought you out of Egypt to be your God. I am the Lord. The closing I am the Lord formula is expanded: the Lord who makes them holy is the Lord who brought them out of Egypt to be their God. The Exodus and the making-holy are inseparable: the liberation from Egypt was for the purpose of being the covenant God of a holy people. The worship requirements of Leviticus 22 are the expressions of the purpose for which the Exodus happened. The covenant community that keeps the chapter's requirements fulfills the purpose of their liberation.

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