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then i'm sure you will have no problem producing a verse from the bible that says as much.

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That's pretty much the entire point of what I've been saying. It is a Holy day. Holy means set apart. We are to sanctify it. Sanctify means set apart for good, essentially.

So every verse calling it holy points to that. Also the very verses in question, have Yeshua making similar points.

The Hebrew word that is translated to Holy is Qodesh. This word is not given proper emphasis when translated into the English Holy because when we think of Holy we think of Pious and Divine.

The short of it is that the Hebrew word and its Greek equivalent are both better translated into a word meaning "separated" or "set apart".

More Detailed version:
The Hebrew word qodesh and the equivalent Greek word hagios, together with their derivatives, have been translated with one of three words, or derivatives, in our older English versions, namely: holy, hallowed, or sanctified. Another word is also used in modern versions, and generally in ecclesiastical literature, namely: sacred. Most of us have the idea that this word has the meaning of piety, or being pious, or to be devout. However, this conception is refuted when we read in Isa. 66:17 of the idolatrous people "who sanctify (qadash) themselves and purify themselves, to go to the gardens after an idol in the midst, eating swine's flesh and the abomination and the mouse ...." This refutation of the incorrect idea that "holy" means "to be pious", is further confirmed by the shocking discovery that one of the Hebrew words for a harlot (whore) is qedeshah, a derivative of qadash! Likewise, a male prostitute (or sodomite) is called a qadesh in Hebrew. This then causes us to seek for the real meaning of the word qodesh (its verb being qadash) and its Greek equivalent hagios. The Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible, vol. 2, p. 817, summarises what most authorities say about qodesh and hagios, ". . . the meaning of 'separation' is paramount ... the more elemental meaning seems to lie with 'separation'." The same dictionary, in vol. 4, p.210, says, "The basic sense of the Hebrew root qadash, as of its Greek equivalent in the Biblehagios, seems to be 'separateness'." Likewise, Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words repeatedly emphasises the fact of the fundamental meaning of the word to be: "separation".


Also from the Strong's Concordance:
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qodesh:
Definition:
        apartness, holiness, sacredness, separateness
1. apartness, sacredness, holiness
a. of God
b. of places
c. of things
2. set-apartness, separateness