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Green's Literal Translation

Leviticus 18:4

You shall do My judgments and you shall keep My statutes, to walk in them; I am Jehovah your God,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- The Topic Concordance - Life;   Obedience;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Jews, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Affinity;   Marriage;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Alliance;   Holman Bible Dictionary - History;   Incest;   Leviticus;   Pentateuch;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Canon of the Old Testament;   Congregation, Assembly;   Crimes and Punishments;   Deuteronomy;   Hexateuch;   Holiness;   Law;   Leviticus;   Marriage;   Priests and Levites;   Sanctification, Sanctify;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Alliance;   Law in the Old Testament;   Leviticus;   Ordinance;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Alliances;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ceremonies and the Ceremonial Law;   Chastity;   Life;   Midrash Haggadah;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
You shall do my ordinances, and you shall keep my statutes, and walk in them: I am the LORD your God.
King James Version
Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the Lord your God.
Lexham English Bible
You must carry out my regulations, and you must observe my statutes by following them; I am Yahweh your God.
New Century Version
You must obey my rules and follow them. I am the Lord your God.
New English Translation
You must observe my regulations and you must be sure to walk in my statutes. I am the Lord your God.
Amplified Bible
'You are to follow My judgments (precepts, ordinances) and keep My statutes and live by them. I am the LORD your God.
New American Standard Bible
'You are to perform My judgments and keep My statutes, to live in accord with them; I am the LORD your God.
Geneva Bible (1587)
But do after my iudgementes, and keepe mine ordinances, to walke therein: I am the Lord your God.
Legacy Standard Bible
You are to do My judgments and keep My statutes, to walk in them; I am Yahweh your God.
Contemporary English Version
I am the Lord your God, and you must obey my teachings.
Complete Jewish Bible
You are to obey my rulings and laws and live accordingly; I am Adonai your God.
Darby Translation
Mine ordinances shall ye do and my statutes shall ye observe to walk therein: I am Jehovah your God.
Easy-to-Read Version
You must obey my rules and follow my laws. Be sure to follow my rules because I am the Lord your God.
English Standard Version
You shall follow my rules and keep my statutes and walk in them. I am the Lord your God.
George Lamsa Translation
But you shall do my judgments and keep my commandments and walk in them; I am the LORD your God.
Good News Translation
Obey my laws and do what I command. I am the Lord your God.
Christian Standard Bible®
You are to practice my ordinances and you are to keep my statutes by following them; I am the Lord your God.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
but after my lawes shall ye do, & my statutes shall ye kepe, that ye maye walke therin: for I am the LORDE youre God.
American Standard Version
Mine ordinances shall ye do, and my statutes shall ye keep, to walk therein: I am Jehovah your God.
Bible in Basic English
But you are to be guided by my decisions and keep my rules, and be guided by them: I am the Lord your God.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
But do after my iudgementes, and kepe mine ordinaunces, to walke therin: I am the Lorde your God.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Mine ordinances shall ye do, and My statutes shall ye keep, to walk therein: I am the LORD your God.
King James Version (1611)
Ye shall doe my iudgements, and keepe mine ordinances, to walke therein: I am the Lord your God.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Ye shall observe my judgments, and shall keep my ordinances, and shall walk in them: I am the Lord your God.
English Revised Version
My judgments shall ye do, and my statutes shall ye keep, to walk therein: I am the LORD your God.
Berean Standard Bible
You are to practice My judgments and keep My statutes by walking in them. I am the LORD your God.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Ye schulen do my domes, and ye schulen kepe myn heestis, and ye schulen go in tho; Y am youre Lord God.
Young's Literal Translation
`My judgments ye do, and My statutes ye keep, to walk in them; I [am] Jehovah your God;
Update Bible Version
My ordinances you shall do, and my statutes you shall keep, to walk therein: I am Yahweh your God.
Webster's Bible Translation
Ye shall perform my judgments, and keep my ordinances, to walk in them; I [am] the LORD your God.
World English Bible
My ordinances shall you do, and my statutes shall you keep, to walk therein: I am Yahweh your God.
New King James Version
You shall observe My judgments and keep My ordinances, to walk in them: I am the LORD your God.
New Living Translation
You must obey all my regulations and be careful to obey my decrees, for I am the Lord your God.
New Life Bible
You are to do what I say and keep My Laws and live by them. I am the Lord your God.
New Revised Standard
My ordinances you shall observe and my statutes you shall keep, following them: I am the Lord your God.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
My regulations, shall ye do, And, my statutes, shall ye observe to walk therein, - I - Yahweh, am your God.
Douay-Rheims Bible
You shall do my judgments, and shall observe my precepts, and shall walk in them. I am the Lord your God.
Revised Standard Version
You shall do my ordinances and keep my statutes and walk in them. I am the LORD your God.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'You are to perform My judgments and keep My statutes, to live in accord with them; I am the LORD your God.

Contextual Overview

1 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 2 Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, I am Jehovah your God. 3 You shall not do according to the doings of the land of Egypt in which you lived; and you shall not do according to the doings of the land of Canaan to which I am bringing you; nor shall you walk in their statutes. 4 You shall do My judgments and you shall keep My statutes, to walk in them; I am Jehovah your God, 5 and you shall keep My statutes and My judgments, which if a man does, he shall live by them. I am Jehovah.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Leviticus 18:26, Leviticus 19:37, Leviticus 20:22, Deuteronomy 4:1, Deuteronomy 4:2, Deuteronomy 6:1, Psalms 105:45, Psalms 119:4, Ezekiel 20:19, Ezekiel 36:27, Ezekiel 37:24, Luke 1:6, John 15:14

Reciprocal: Leviticus 18:30 - I am Leviticus 20:8 - And ye Leviticus 22:31 - General Leviticus 26:3 - General Ezekiel 18:17 - that hath not Hebrews 9:1 - had

Cross-References

Genesis 18:5
And I will bring a bite of bread and will sustain Your heart. Then You may pass on, for this is why You have passed over to Your servant. And they said, Do so, as you have said.
Genesis 18:15
And Sarah denied, saying, I did not laugh; for she was afraid. And He said, No, but you did laugh.
Genesis 19:2
And he said, Behold, now, my lords, please turn in to your servant's house and lodge, and wash your feet; and rise early and go to your way. And they said, No, for we will lodge in the street.
Genesis 24:32
And the man came into the house. And he unloaded the camels and gave straw and fodder to the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him.
Genesis 43:24
And the man led out the men to Joseph's house. And he gave water, and they washed their feet. And he gave fodder for their asses.
1 Samuel 25:41
And she rose up and bowed her face to the earth, and said, Behold, let your handmaid be a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.
Luke 7:44
And turning to the woman, He said to Simon, Do you see this woman? I came into your house. You did not give water for My feet, but she washed My feet with tears and wiped off with the hairs of her head.
1 Timothy 5:10
being witnessed by good works, if she brought up children, if she hosted strangers, if she washed the feet of the saints, if she relieved afflicted ones, if she followed after every good work.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ye shall do my judgments,.... Which are just and right, and according to the rules of justice and equity; these are things, as Jarchi observes, which are said in the law with judgment, or are laws framed with the highest reason, even by the judgment of God himself, whose judgment is always according to truth: Aben Ezra thinks, these are the judicial laws in Exodus 21:1; but though they may include them, they have more particular respect to the following laws:

and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: which he had ordained and appointed of his own will and pleasure, which Jarchi calls the decree of the king, or which he decreed and determined as a king, having absolute power over his subjects to enact and enjoin what he pleased; wherefore some think these refer to ceremonial laws, which depended upon the will of the lawgiver, and were not founded in any natural sense or reason, wherefore it follows:

I [am] the Lord your God: who had a right to make what laws he pleased, being their Sovereign, and which they in gratitude as well as in justice ought to obey, he being their God, their covenant God, who had done great and good things for them.


 
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