Chapters 17-26 contain the Holiness Code, including the injunction in chapter 19 to "love one's neighbor as oneself" (the Great Commandment).

Prescriptions for practical holiness (the Holiness Code (chs.

In the documentary hypothesis, the Holiness Code is considered part of the Priestly source.

The hypothesis further asserts that the Holiness Code was subjected to editing by the priestly source.

The Holiness Code is a collection of many laws concerning several subjects.

By this reckoning, there are thus at least five earlier law collections which were redacted together, with an additional hortatory conclusion, to form the Holiness Code.

Most critical scholars and religious commentaries regard the Holiness Code as bearing strong resemblance, in several places, to the writing of Ezekiel.

There is also a great similarity between Ezekiel's writing and the hortatory elements, particularly the conclusion, of the Holiness Code.

People and Land in the Holiness Code.

God's instruction, considered by scholars to be part of the Holiness Code, then enumerates how people can be holy.