Leviticus 11:44

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44 `For I [am] Jehovah your God, and ye have sanctified yourselves, and ye have been holy, for I [am] holy; and ye do not defile your persons with any teeming thing which is creeping on the earth;


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By Henry MacLagan

Verse 44. For the Lord is good itself and truth itself united; and therefore man should be holy by the conjunction of these in himself, since the Lord is holiness itself by that union; neither should the spiritual man defile himself with any sensual affection separated from the higher life.