For I am the Lord who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be your God; thus you shall be holy, for I am holy.'"This is the end of a chapter about what animals are clean and unclean, and really sums up the reason for the book to this point, which has been mostly rules. There are still plenty of people who think that a lot of these rules were made solely to make things difficult, or because He was on some kind of power trip. But this verse shows that's not the case.
God's goal is to make His people holy, and it's my belief that it's so we're worthy of having a relationship with. God can't associate with those who are unholy, like a healthy person can't be around the sick constantly without becoming sick himself. So God wants us to be Holy, so that we can be with Him. He wants that connection, that relationship, with His creation, so that we can return to the connection we had in Eden.
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