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Hebrew Names Version

Leviticus 19:37

You shall observe all my statutes, and all my ordinances, and do them: I am the LORD.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Commerce;   Obedience;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Commerce;  

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Ethics;   Leviticus;   Pentateuch;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Canon of the Old Testament;   Congregation, Assembly;   Crimes and Punishments;   Deuteronomy;   Hexateuch;   Holiness;   Law;   Priests and Levites;   Sanctification, Sanctify;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Commerce;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Observe;  

Parallel Translations

King James Version
Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I am the Lord .
Lexham English Bible
"‘Thus you shall keep all my statutes and all my regulations, and you shall do them; I am Yahweh.'"
New Century Version
"‘Remember all my laws and rules, and obey them. I am the Lord .'"
New English Translation
You must be sure to obey all my statutes and regulations. I am the Lord .'"
Amplified Bible
'You shall observe and keep all My statutes and all My ordinances and do them. I am the LORD.'"
New American Standard Bible
'So you shall keep all My statutes and all My ordinances, and do them; I am the LORD.'"
Geneva Bible (1587)
Therefore shall ye obserue all mine ordinances, and all my iudgements, and doe them: I am the Lorde.
Legacy Standard Bible
You shall thus keep all My statutes and all My judgments and do them; I am Yahweh.'"
Contemporary English Version
and I command you to obey my laws.
Complete Jewish Bible
Observe all my regulations and rulings, and do them; I am Adonai .'"
Darby Translation
And ye shall observe all my statutes, and all mine ordinances, and do them: I am Jehovah.
Easy-to-Read Version
"You must remember all my laws and rules. And you must obey them. I am the Lord ."
English Standard Version
And you shall observe all my statutes and all my rules, and do them: I am the Lord ."
George Lamsa Translation
Therefore you shall keep all my commandments and all my judgments, and do them; I am the LORD.
Good News Translation
Obey all my laws and commands. I am the Lord ."
Christian Standard Bible®
Keep all my statutes and all my ordinances and do them; I am the Lord.”
Literal Translation
and you shall observe all My statutes, and all My judgments and shall do them; I am Jehovah.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
that ye shulde kepe & do all my statutes and lawes: for I am the LORDE.
American Standard Version
And ye shall observe all my statutes, and all mine ordinances, and do them: I am Jehovah.
Bible in Basic English
You are to keep all my rules and my decisions and do them: I am the Lord.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Therfore shall ye obserue all my ordinaunces, and al my iudgementes, and do them: I am the Lorde.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And ye shall observe all My statutes, and all Mine ordinances, and do them: I am the LORD.
King James Version (1611)
Therefore shall ye obserue all my Statutes, and all my Iudgements, and doe them: I am the Lord.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And ye shall keep all my law and all my ordinances, and ye shall do them: I am the Lord your God.
English Revised Version
And ye shall observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I am the LORD.
Berean Standard Bible
You must keep all My statutes and all My ordinances and follow them. I am the LORD.'"
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Kepe ye alle myn heestis, and alle domes, and do ye tho; Y am the Lord.
Young's Literal Translation
and ye have observed all my statutes, and all my judgments, and have done them; I [am] Jehovah.'
Update Bible Version
And you shall observe all my statutes, and all my ordinances, and do them: I am Yahweh.
Webster's Bible Translation
Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I [am] the LORD.
World English Bible
You shall observe all my statutes, and all my ordinances, and do them: I am Yahweh.
New King James Version
"Therefore you shall observe all My statutes and all My judgments, and perform them: I am the LORD."'
New Living Translation
"You must be careful to keep all of my decrees and regulations by putting them into practice. I am the Lord ."
New Life Bible
Keep all My Laws and do all that I tell you. I am the Lord.'"
New Revised Standard
You shall keep all my statutes and all my ordinances, and observe them: I am the Lord .
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes and all my regulations and do them, - I, am Yahweh.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Keep all my precepts, and all my judgments: and do them. I am the Lord.
Revised Standard Version
And you shall observe all my statutes and all my ordinances, and do them: I am the LORD."
THE MESSAGE
"Keep all my decrees and all my laws. Yes, do them. I am God ."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'You shall thus observe all My statutes and all My ordinances and do them; I am the LORD.'"

Contextual Overview

30 You shall keep my Shabbatot, and reverence my sanctuary; I am the LORD. 31 Don't turn to those who have familiar spirits, nor to the wizards; don't seek them out, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God. 32 You shall rise up before the gray head, and honor the face of the old man, and you shall fear your God: I am the LORD. 33 If a stranger sojourn with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. 34 The stranger who sojourns with you shall be to you as the home-born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you were sojourners in the land of Mitzrayim: I am the LORD your God. 35 You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity. 36 Just balances, just weights, a just efah, and a just hin, shall you have: I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Mitzrayim. 37 You shall observe all my statutes, and all my ordinances, and do them: I am the LORD.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Leviticus 18:4, Leviticus 18:5, Deuteronomy 4:1, Deuteronomy 4:2, Deuteronomy 4:5, Deuteronomy 4:6, Deuteronomy 5:1, Deuteronomy 6:1, Deuteronomy 6:2, Deuteronomy 8:1, Psalms 119:4, Psalms 119:34, 1 John 3:22, 1 John 3:23

Reciprocal: Exodus 21:1 - the judgments Leviticus 20:8 - And ye Leviticus 20:22 - statutes Leviticus 22:31 - General Leviticus 25:18 - Wherefore Deuteronomy 12:28 - General 2 Kings 17:37 - the statutes

Cross-References

Genesis 19:1
The two angels came to Sedom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sedom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed himself with his face to the eretz,
Genesis 19:18
Lot said to them, "Oh, not so, my lord.
Genesis 19:25
He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew on the ground.
Genesis 19:27
Avraham got up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the LORD.
Genesis 19:31
The firstborn said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is not a man in the eretz to come in to us after the manner of all the eretz.
Numbers 21:29
Woe to you, Mo'av! You are undone, people of Kemosh: He has given his sons as fugitives, His daughters into captivity, To Sichon king of the Amori.
Deuteronomy 2:9
The LORD said to me, Don't bother Mo'av, neither contend with them in battle; for I will not give you of his land for a possession; because I have given `Ar to the children of Lot for a possession.
Deuteronomy 2:19
and when you come near over against the children of `Ammon, don't bother them, nor contend with them; for I will not give you of the land of the children of `Ammon for a possession; because I have given it to the children of Lot for a possession.
Deuteronomy 23:3
An `Ammonite or a Mo'avite shall not enter into the assembly of the LORD; even to the tenth generation shall none belonging to them enter into the assembly of the LORD forever:
Ruth 4:10
Moreover Rut the Mo'avite, the wife of Machlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance, that the name of the dead not be cut off from among his brothers, and from the gate of his place: you are witnesses this day.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my judgments,.... Delivered in this and the preceding chapters, and elsewhere, whether ceremonial or judicial, or moral, as there were of each, which had been delivered to them; and which are all comprehended in these two words, "statutes", or ordinances, which were the determinations of his sovereign will, and of mere positive institution; and "judgments", which were such laws as respected their civil or religious conduct, formed according to the rules of justice and equity: "all" and everyone of which were to be "observed", taken notice of, and regarded, in order to be put in practice, as follows:

and do them; act according to them, in civil, moral, and religious life:

I [am] the Lord; who enjoined all these things, and had a right to do so, and expected obedience to them, which it was right fit that they should give.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Leviticus 19:37. Shall ye observe all my statutes — חקתי chukkothi, from חק chak, to describe, mark, or trace out; the righteousness which I have described, and the path of duty which I have traced out. Judgments, משפטי mishpatai, from shaphat, to discern, determine, direct, c. that which Divine Wisdom has discerned to be best for man, has determined shall promote his best interest, and has directed him conscientiously to use. Leviticus 26:15.

1. MANY difficulties occur in this very important chapter, but they are such only to us; for there can be no doubt of their having been perfectly well known to the Israelites, to whom the precepts contained in this chapter were given. Considerable pains however have been taken to make them plain, and no serious mind can read them without profit.

2. The precepts against injustice, fraud, slander, enmity, c., c., are well worth the notice of every Christian and those against superstitious usages are not less so and by these last we learn, that having recourse to astrologers, fortune-tellers, &c., to get intelligence of lost or stolen goods, or to know the future events of our own lives, or those of others, is highly criminal in the sight of God. Those who have recourse to such persons renounce their baptism, and in effect renounce the providence as well as the word of God.

3. The precepts of humanity and mercy relative to the poor, the hireling, and the stranger, are worthy of our most serious regard. Nor are those which concern weights and measures, traffic, and the whole system of commutative justice, less necessary to be observed for the benefit and comfort of the individual, and the safety and prosperity of the state.


 
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