Leviticus 18:2Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: I am the Lord your God.
דַּבֵּר֙ אֶל־בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וְאָמַרְתָּ֖ אֲלֵהֶ֑ם אֲנִ֖י יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵיכֶֽם׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Ex 6:7And I will take you to myself for my people, I will be your God: and you shall know that I am the Lord your God, who brought you out from the work-prison of the Egyptians:
- Lev 11:44For I am the Lord your God. Be holy because I am holy. Defile not your souls by any creeping thing, that moveth upon the earth.
- Ezek 20:5And say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: In the day when I chose Israel, and lifted up my hand for the race of the house of Jacob: and appeared to them in the land of Egypt, and lifted up my hand for them, saying: I am the Lord your God:
- Lev 20:7Sanctify yourselves, and be ye holy: because I am the Lord your God.
- Ps 33 (32):12
- Gen 17:7And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and between thy seed after thee in their generations, by a perpetual covenant: to be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee.
- Lev 19:3Let every one fear his father, and his mother. Keep my sabbaths. I am the Lord your God.
- Lev 19:4Turn ye not to idols: nor make to yourselves molten gods. I am the Lord your God.