Leviticus 20:8 (DRB)

Passage

Keep my precepts, and do them. I am the Lord that sanctify you.

Nearby Context

Leviticus 20:6 The soul that shall go aside after magicians, and soothsayers, and shall commit fornication with them: I will set my face against that soul, and destroy it out of the midst of its people.

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

Leviticus 20:8 Keep my precepts, and do them. I am the Lord that sanctify you.

Leviticus 20:9 He that curseth his father, or mother, dying let him die. He hath cursed his father, and mother: let his blood be upon him.

Leviticus 20:10 If any man commit adultery with the wife of another, and defile his neighbour's wife: let them be put to death, both the adulterer and the adulteress.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "keep", "precepts", "lord", and "sanctify". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "keep" and "precepts", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 7's "Sanctify yourselves and be ye holy because..." into verse 9's "He that curseth his father or mother...", so "keep" and "precepts" belong inside that flow. In Leviticus context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "keep" and "precepts" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.