Jehovah himself told them: “You must prove yourselves holy to me, because I Jehovah am holy; and I am proceeding to divide you off from the peoples to become mine. ” ​ — Leviticus 19: 2; 20: 26.
या नात्याने, त्या नव्या राष्ट्राला एक विशेष प्रतिष्ठा लाभली.