Leviticus 18:2

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““Speak to the Israelites and tell them: I am the LORD your God.”

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BSBPD

““Speak to the Israelites and tell them: I am the LORD your God.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, I am the Lord your God.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, I am Jehovah your God.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“`Speak unto the sons of Israel, and thou hast said unto them, I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah your God;”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Leviticus 18:2 — 15 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Exodus 20:2“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
  4. 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.
  5. Leviticus 18:4You are to practice My judgments and keep My statutes by walking in them. I am the LORD your God.
  6. 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.”
  7. Leviticus 19:3Each of you must respect his mother and father, and you must keep My Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. Leviticus 20:7Consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, because I am the LORD your God.
  11. 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.
  12. Psalms 33:12Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people He has chosen as His inheritance!
  13. 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.’
  14. 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.’
  15. Ezekiel 20:19I am the LORD your God; walk in My statutes, keep My ordinances, and practice them.

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