YHVH Mekaddishchem — The LORD Who Sanctifies You
יְהוָה מְקַדִּשְׁכֶם
'YHVH who makes you holy' — given with the Sabbath as the sign between God and Israel.
Holiness here is not achieved but received — God is the active sanctifier, and Shabbat is the weekly sign of it. Both traditions agree: set-apartness is something done to a people who keep showing up to be made holy.
First occurrence
Exod 31:13 — 'That you may know that I am YHVH Mekaddishchem'
Key passages
Lev 20:8 — 'I am YHVH who sanctifies you'
Lev 20:26 — 'You shall be holy to Me, for I YHVH am holy'
1Thess 5:23 — 'May the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely'
In the Greek Scriptures
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