“Speak to the whole congregation of the Israelites and tell them, ‘You must be holy because I, the Lord your God, am holy.

You must be holy to me because I, the Lord, am holy, and I have set you apart from the other peoples to be mine.

“‘They must be holy to their God, and they must not profane the name of their God, because they are the ones who present the Lord’s gifts, the food of their God. Therefore they must be holy.

You are to eat it as a most holy offering; every male may eat it. It will be holy to you.

But you, dear friends, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith, by praying in the Holy Spirit,

You are to put the atonement lid on the ark of the testimony in the Most Holy Place.

You are to make this into a sacred anointing oil, a perfumed compound, the work of a perfumer. It will be sacred anointing oil.

But the Kohathites are not to go in to watch while the holy things are being covered, or they will die.”

In the most holy place he made two images of cherubim and plated them with gold.

Let them praise your great and awesome name! He is holy!

Praise the Lord our God! Worship before his footstool! He is holy!

All the days of his separation he must be holy to the Lord.

The outer sanctuary and the inner sanctuary each had a double door.

This gospel he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy scriptures,

For God did not call us to impurity but in holiness.

You must not profane my holy name, and I will be sanctified in the midst of the Israelites. I am the Lord who sanctifies you,

It will belong to Aaron and his sons, and they must eat it in a holy place because it is most holy to him, a perpetual allotted portion from the gifts of the Lord.”

It must not be applied to people’s bodies, and you must not make any like it with the same recipe. It is holy, and it must be holy to you.

They made a plate, the holy diadem, of pure gold and wrote on it an inscription, as on the engravings of a seal, “Holiness to the Lord.”

Then I said to them, “You are holy to the Lord, just as these vessels are holy. The silver and the gold are a voluntary offering to the Lord, the God of your fathers.