Leviticus 22:9
Good News Translation
"All priests shall observe the regulations that I have given. Otherwise, they will become guilty and die, because they have disobeyed the sacred regulations. I am the LORD and I make them holy.

New Revised Standard Version
They shall keep my charge, so that they may not incur guilt and die in the sanctuary for having profaned it: I am the LORD; I sanctify them.

Contemporary English Version
Obey me, or you will die on duty for disgracing the place of worship. Remember--I am the LORD, the one who makes a priest holy.

New American Bible
They shall keep my charge so that they will not bear the punishment in this matter and die for their profanation. I am the LORD who makes them holy.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let them keep my precepts, that they may not fall into sin, and die in the sanctuary, when they shall have defiled it. I am the Lord who sanctify them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Let them keep my precepts, that they may not fall into sin, and die in the sanctuary, when they shall have defiled it. I am the Lord who sanctify them.

Leviticus 10:1,2 And Nadab and Abiu, the sons of Aaron, taking their censers, put fire therein, and incense on it, offering before the Lord strange fire: which was not commanded them. . . .

Leviticus 16:2 And he commanded him, saying: Speak to Aaron thy brother, that he enter not at all into the sanctuary, which is within the veil before the propitiatory, with which the ark is covered, lest he die, (for I will appear in a cloud over the oracle),

Exodus 28:43 And Aaron and his sons shall use them when they shall go into the tabernacle of the testimony, or when they approach to the altar to minister in the sanctuary. lest being guilty of iniquity they die. It shall be a law for ever to Aaron, and to his seed after him.

Numbers 18:22,32 That the children of Israel may not approach any more to the tabernacle, nor commit deadly sin, . . .

Context
Restrictions Against the Unclean
8That which dieth of itself, and that which was taken by a beast, they shall not eat, nor be defiled therewith. I am the Lord. 9Let them keep my precepts, that they may not fall into sin, and die in the sanctuary, when they shall have defiled it. I am the Lord who sanctify them.10No stranger shall eat of the sanctified things: a sojourner of the priests, or a hired servant, shall not eat of them.…
Cross References
Matthew 23:17
Ye foolish and blind: for whether is greater, the gold or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?

Exodus 28:43
And Aaron and his sons shall use them when they shall go into the tabernacle of the testimony, or when they approach to the altar to minister in the sanctuary. lest being guilty of iniquity they die. It shall be a law for ever to Aaron, and to his seed after him.

Leviticus 16:13
That when the perfumes are put upon the fire, the cloud and vapour thereof may cover the oracle, which is over the testimony, and he may not die.

Leviticus 18:30
Keep my commandments. Do not the things which they have done, that have been before you: and be not defiled therein. I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 22:16
Lest perhaps they bear the iniquity of their trespass, when they shall have eaten the sanctified things. I am the Lord who sanctify them.

Numbers 18:22
That the children of Israel may not approach any more to the tabernacle, nor commit deadly sin,

Deuteronomy 11:1
Therefore love the Lord thy God and observe his precepts and ceremonies, his judgments and commandments at all times.

Leviticus 22:8
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