Leviticus 18:2
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)““Speak to the Israelites and tell them: I am the LORD your God.”
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““Speak to the Israelites and tell them: I am the LORD your God.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, I am the Lord your God.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, I am Jehovah your God.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“`Speak unto the sons of Israel, and thou hast said unto them, I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah your God;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Leviticus 18:2 — 15 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 17:7I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
- Exodus 6:7I will take you as My own people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians.
- Exodus 20:2“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
- Leviticus 11:44For I am the LORD your God; consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, because I am holy. You must not defile yourselves by any creature that crawls along the ground.
- Leviticus 18:4You are to practice My judgments and keep My statutes by walking in them. I am the LORD your God.
- Leviticus 18:30You must keep My charge not to practice any of the abominable customs that were practiced before you, so that you do not defile yourselves by them. I am the LORD your God.”
- Leviticus 19:3Each of you must respect his mother and father, and you must keep My Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.
- Leviticus 19:10You must not strip your vineyard bare or gather its fallen grapes. Leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the LORD your God.
- Leviticus 19:34You must treat the foreigner living among you as native-born and love him as yourself, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.
- Leviticus 20:7Consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, because I am the LORD your God.
- Leviticus 20:23You must not follow the statutes of the nations I am driving out before you. Because they did all these things, I abhorred them.
- Psalms 33:12Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people He has chosen as His inheritance!
- Ezekiel 20:5and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: On the day I chose Israel, I swore an oath to the descendants of the house of Jacob and made Myself known to them in the land of Egypt. With an uplifted hand I said to them, ‘I am the LORD your God.’
- Ezekiel 20:7And I said to them: ‘Each of you must throw away the abominations before his eyes, and you must not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.’
- Ezekiel 20:19I am the LORD your God; walk in My statutes, keep My ordinances, and practice them.
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