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<p>You will excuse me for trying to give a simplistic answer. But for me it is clear that the reason is that it is in a clause beginning with ki. Cf. the identical trop in 21:23, כי אני יי מקדשם<br>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:11pt" face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Mesorah <mesorah-bounces@lists.aishdas.org> on behalf of Dov Bloom via Mesorah <mesorah@lists.aishdas.org><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 12, 2016 4:22 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Gershon Rothstein<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Mesorah Email List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Mesorah] One of Ten is Different (ki ani hasem elokeichem, Vayikra 20:7)</font>
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<p dir="ltr">Shadal mentions this unusual teamim (accentuation) in his peirush to Vayikra 19:25. He refers to his explanation on Shemot 20:2 anochi hashem elokeha, where he gives a lengthy explanation of the division of those three words.
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Mechel Perlman z"l, mori verabi in the field of teamim and messora is also perturbed by the teamim on ki ani hasem elokeichem, Vayikra 20:7. In his work Sefer Vayikra Mefusak there is an 82 page intruduction where he discusses various difficult teamim in
Vayikra. On page eyin vav ff, Perlman quotes a private communication from Rav Mordechai Breuer, who probably should be understood as Perlman"s Rav uMoreh in this field.
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The answer seems to be that in a number of cases, th</p>
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