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Leviticus 25:18

"Remember my laws and rules. Obey them and you will live safely in your country.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Jubilee;   Reward;   The Topic Concordance - Obedience;   Safety;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Jubilee;   Poor;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Sabbatical year;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Jubilee, Year of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Dwelling;   Festivals;   Leviticus;   Number Systems and Number Symbolism;   Pentateuch;   Year of Jubilee;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Canon of the Old Testament;   Congregation, Assembly;   Crimes and Punishments;   Deuteronomy;   Hexateuch;   Holiness;   Law;   Leviticus;   Poverty;   Priests and Levites;   Sabbatical Year;   Sanctification, Sanctify;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Feasts;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Jubilee;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Weeks;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Feasts, and Fasts;   Jubilee Year;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Restraints on Alienation;   Sidra;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Therefore you shall do my statutes, and keep my ordinances and do them; and you shall dwell in the land in safety.
King James Version
Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety.
Lexham English Bible
"‘And you shall do my statutes, and you must keep my regulations, and you shall do them, so that you shall live securely on the land.
New Century Version
"‘Remember my laws and rules, and obey them so that you will live safely in the land.
New English Translation
You must obey my statutes and my regulations; you must be sure to keep them so that you may live securely in the land.
Amplified Bible
'Therefore you shall carry out My statutes and keep My ordinances and do them, so that you may live securely on the land.
New American Standard Bible
'You shall therefore follow My statutes and keep My judgments so as to carry them out, so that you may live securely on the land.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Wherefore ye shall obey mine ordinances, and keepe my lawes, and do them, and ye shall dwell in the land in safetie.
Legacy Standard Bible
‘You shall thus observe My statutes and keep My judgments, so as to do them, that you may live securely on the land.
Contemporary English Version
If you obey my laws and teachings, you will live safely in the land and enjoy its abundant crops.
Complete Jewish Bible
"‘Rather, you are to keep my regulations and rulings and act accordingly. If you do, you will live securely in the land.
Darby Translation
And ye shall do my statutes, and observe mine ordinances and do them: thus shall ye dwell in your land securely.
English Standard Version
"Therefore you shall do my statutes and keep my rules and perform them, and then you will dwell in the land securely.
George Lamsa Translation
Wherefore you shall do my commandments and keep my judgments and do them; and you shall dwell in the land in safety.
Good News Translation
Obey all the Lord 's laws and commands, so that you may live in safety in the land.
Christian Standard Bible®
“You are to keep my statutes and ordinances and carefully observe them, so that you may live securely in the land.
Literal Translation
And you shall do My statutes, and you shall keep my judgments and shall do them; and you shall live on the land securely.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Wherfore do after my statutes, and kepe my lawes, so yt ye do them that ye maye dwell safe in the londe.
American Standard Version
Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep mine ordinances and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety.
Bible in Basic English
So keep my rules and my decisions and do them, and you will be safe in your land.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Wherfore ye shall do after myne ordinaunces, and kepe my lawes, and do them, and ye shall dwell in the lande in safetie.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Wherefore ye shall do My statutes, and keep Mine ordinances and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety.
King James Version (1611)
Wherefore ye shall do my Statutes, and keepe my Iudgements, and doe them, and ye shall dwell in the land in safetie.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And ye shall keep all my ordinances, and all my judgments; and do ye observe them, and ye shall keep them, and dwell securely in the land.
English Revised Version
Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety.
Berean Standard Bible
You are to keep My statutes and carefully observe My judgments, so that you may dwell securely in the land.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Do ye my comaundementis, and kepe ye my domes, and fille ye tho, that ye moun dwelle in his lond without ony drede,
Young's Literal Translation
`And ye have done My statutes, and My judgments ye keep, and have done them, and ye have dwelt on the land confidently,
Update Bible Version
Therefore you shall do my statutes, and keep my ordinances and do them; and you shall dwell in the land in safety.
Webster's Bible Translation
Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety.
World English Bible
Therefore you shall do my statutes, and keep my ordinances and do them; and you shall dwell in the land in safety.
New King James Version
"So you shall observe My statutes and keep My judgments, and perform them; and you will dwell in the land in safety.
New Living Translation
"If you want to live securely in the land, follow my decrees and obey my regulations.
New Life Bible
‘So keep My Laws and do what I say, and you will be safe living in the land.
New Revised Standard
You shall observe my statutes and faithfully keep my ordinances, so that you may live on the land securely.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and my regulations, shall ye observe and do them, - so shall ye dwell upon the land with confidence;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Do my precepts, and keep my judgments, and fulfil them: that you may dwell in the land without any fear.
Revised Standard Version
"Therefore you shall do my statutes, and keep my ordinances and perform them; so you will dwell in the land securely.
THE MESSAGE
"Keep my decrees and observe my laws and you will live secure in the land. The land will yield its fruit; you will have all you can eat and will live safe and secure. Do I hear you ask, ‘What are we going to eat in the seventh year if we don't plant or harvest?' I assure you, I will send such a blessing in the sixth year that the land will yield enough for three years. While you plant in the eighth year, you will eat from the old crop and continue until the harvest of the ninth year comes in.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'You shall thus observe My statutes and keep My judgments, so as to carry them out, that you may live securely on the land.

Contextual Overview

8 "You will also count seven groups of seven years. This will be 49 years. During that time there will be seven years of rest for the land. 9 On the Day of Atonement, you must blow a ram's horn. That will be on the tenth day of the seventh month. You must blow the ram's horn through the whole country. 10 You will make the 50th year a special year. You will announce freedom for everyone living in your country. This time will be called ‘Jubilee.' Each of you will go back to your own property. And each of you will go back to your own family. 11 The 50th year will be a special celebration for you. Don't plant seeds, don't harvest the crops that grow by themselves, and don't gather grapes from the vines that are not trimmed. 12 That year is Jubilee. It will be a holy time for you. You will eat the crops that come from the field. 13 In the year of Jubilee, you will go back to your own property. 14 "Don't cheat your neighbors when you sell your land to them. Don't cheat one another when you buy or sell land. 15 If you want to buy your neighbor's land, count the number of years since the last Jubilee, and use that number to decide the right price. You are only buying the rights for harvesting crops until the next Jubilee. 16 If there are many years before the next Jubilee, the price will be high. If the years are few, the price will be lower. So your neighbor is really only selling a number of crops to you. At the next Jubilee, the land will again belong to that family. 17 You must not cheat each other. You must honor your God. I am the Lord your God.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Wherefore: Leviticus 19:37, Psalms 103:18

and ye: Leviticus 26:3-12, Deuteronomy 12:10, Deuteronomy 28:1-14, Deuteronomy 33:12, Deuteronomy 33:28, Psalms 4:8, Proverbs 1:33, Jeremiah 7:3-7, Jeremiah 23:6, Jeremiah 25:5, Jeremiah 33:16, Ezekiel 33:24-26, Ezekiel 33:29, Ezekiel 34:25-28, Ezekiel 36:24-28

Reciprocal: Leviticus 26:5 - dwell Ezekiel 28:26 - and they shall dwell

Cross-References

Genesis 2:11
The name of the first river was Pishon. This river flowed around the entire country of Havilah.
Genesis 10:7
Cush's sons were Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. Raamah's sons were Sheba and Dedan.
Genesis 10:29
Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these people were Joktan's sons.
Genesis 13:10
Lot looked and saw the whole Jordan Valley. He saw that there was much water there. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. At that time the Jordan Valley all the way to Zoar was like the Lord 's Garden. This was good land, like the land of Egypt.)
Genesis 14:10
There were many holes filled with tar in the Valley of Siddim. When the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah and their armies ran away, some of the soldiers fell into these holes, but the others ran away to the mountains.
Genesis 16:12
Ishmael will be wild and free like a wild donkey. He will be against everyone, and everyone will be against him. He will move from place to place and camp near his brothers."
Genesis 20:1
Abraham left that place and traveled to the Negev. He settled in the city of Gerar, between Kadesh and Shur. While in Gerar,
Genesis 21:14
Early the next morning Abraham took some food and water and gave them to Hagar. She carried them and left with her boy. She left that place and wandered in the desert of Beersheba.
Genesis 21:21
His mother found a wife for him in Egypt. They continued to live in the Paran desert.
Genesis 25:23
The Lord said to her, "The leaders of two nations are in your body. Two nations will come from you, and they will be divided. One of them will be stronger, and the older will serve the younger."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them,.... These and all others he enjoined; by which tenure, even obedience to all his commands, moral, ritual, and judicial, they were to hold the land of Canaan, and their possessions in it, which is intended in the next clause:

and ye shall dwell in the land in safety; without any fear of enemies, or of the neighbouring nations about them seizing upon them, and distressing them; and Jarchi observes, that it was for transgressing the sabbatical year that Israel was carried captive, which he thinks is intimated in 2 Chronicles 36:21; and that the seventy years' captivity in Babylon were for the seventy sabbatical years that had been neglected.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

In safety - i. e., secure from famine, Leviticus 26:5; Deuteronomy 12:10.


 
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