HOLY — and, before it means morally pure, it means SET APART, marked off from ordinary use. The word's first-ever appearance in the Bible is not a person but a TIME: God 'made holy' the seventh day (Genesis 2:3, already on this shelf), before any law exists to keep or break. ⚠ Leviticus 19:2 turns the word into an imperative aimed at an entire people — 'you shall be kadosh, for I, Jehovah your God, am kadosh' — and the thirty-five verses that follow are the word unpacked into practice: not temple ritual but field edges left for the poor, wages paid on time, honest scales. Holiness here is closer to a way of drawing boundaries around ordinary life than to a private religious feeling. → first discussed at Lev 19:2