Leviticus 21:8
Good News Translation
The people must consider the priest holy, because he presents the food offerings to me. I am the LORD; I am holy and I make my people holy.

New Revised Standard Version
and you shall treat them as holy, since they offer the food of your God; they shall be holy to you, for I the LORD, I who sanctify you, am holy.

Contemporary English Version
because I am holy. And so, you must be treated with proper respect, since you offer food sacrifices to me, the God of holiness.

New American Bible
Honor him as holy for he offers the food of your God; he shall be holy to you, because I, the LORD, am holy who make you holy.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And offer the loaves of proposition. Let them therefore be holy because I also am holy: the Lord, who sanctify them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And offer the loaves of proposition. Let them therefore be holy because I also am holy: the Lord, who sanctify them.

sanctify

Leviticus 21:6 They shall be holy to their God, and shall not profane his name. For they offer the burnt offering of the Lord, and the bread of their God: and therefore they shall be holy.

Exodus 19:10,14 And he said to him: Go to the people, and sanctify them to day, and to morrow, and let them wash their garments. . . .

Exodus 28:41 And with all these things thou shalt vest Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him. And thou shalt consecrate the hands of them all, and shalt sanctify them, that they may do the office of priesthood unto me.

Exodus 29:1,43,44 And thou shalt also do this, that they may be consecrated to me in priesthood. Take a calf from the herd, and two rams without blemish, . . .

for I

Leviticus 11:44,45 For 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. . . .

Leviticus 19:2 Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel. And thou shalt say to them: Be ye holy, because I the Lord your God am holy.

Leviticus 20:7,8 Sanctify yourselves, and be ye holy: because I am the Lord your God. . . .

John 10:36 Do you say of him whom the Father hath sanctified and sent into the world: Thou blasphemest; because I said: I am the Son of God?

John 17:19 And for them do I sanctify myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth.

Hebrews 7:26 For it was fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens:

Hebrews 10:29 How much more, do you think he deserveth worse punishments, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God and hath esteemed the blood of the testament unclean, by which he was sanctified, and hath offered an affront to the Spirit of grace?

Context
Holiness Required of Priests
7They shall not take to wife a harlot or a vile prostitute, nor one that has been put away from her husband: because they are consecrated to their God, 8And offer the loaves of proposition. Let them therefore be holy because I also am holy: the Lord, who sanctify them.9If the daughter of a priest be taken in whoredom and dishonour the name of her father, she shall be burnt with fire.…
Cross References
Leviticus 3:11
And the priest shall burn them upon the altar, for the food of the fire, and of the oblation of the Lord.

Leviticus 21:6
They shall be holy to their God, and shall not profane his name. For they offer the burnt offering of the Lord, and the bread of their God: and therefore they shall be holy.

Malachi 1:7
To you, O priests, that despise my name, and have said: Wherein have we despised thy name? You offer polluted bread upon my altar, and you say: Wherein have we polluted thee? In that you say: The table of the Lord is contemptible.

Leviticus 21:7
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