'They shall be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God, for they offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire, [and] the bread of their God; therefore they shall be holy.

Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their clothes.

So Moses went down from the mountain to the people and sanctified the people, and they washed their clothes.

"So you shall put them on Aaron your brother and on his sons with him. You shall anoint them, consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may minister to Me as priests.

"And this is what you shall do to them to hallow them for ministering to Me as priests: Take one young bull and two rams without blemish,

"And there I will meet with the children of Israel, and [the tabernacle] shall be sanctified by My glory.

"So I will consecrate the tabernacle of meeting and the altar. I will also consecrate both Aaron and his sons to minister to Me as priests.

'For I [am] the LORD your God. You shall therefore consecrate yourselves, and you shall be holy; for I [am] holy. Neither shall you defile yourselves with any creeping thing that creeps on the earth.

'For I [am] the LORD who brings you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I [am] holy.

"Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say to them: 'You shall be holy, for I the LORD your God [am] holy.

'Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I [am] the LORD your God.

' And you shall keep My statutes, and perform them: I [am] the LORD who sanctifies you.

"do you say of Him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God'?

"And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth.

For such a High Priest was fitting for us, [who is] holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and has become higher than the heavens;

Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace?