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New American Standard Bible (1995)

Leviticus 25:18

'You shall thus observe My statutes and keep My judgments, so as to carry them out, that you may live securely on the land.

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.
Easy-to-Read Version
"Remember my laws and rules. Obey them and you will live safely in your country.
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.

Contextual Overview

8 'You are also to count off seven sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years, so that you have the time of the seven sabbaths of years, namely, forty-nine years. 9 'You shall then sound a ram's horn abroad on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the day of atonement you shall sound a horn all through your land. 10 'You shall thus consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim a release through the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family. 11 'You shall have the fiftieth year as a jubilee; you shall not sow, nor reap its aftergrowth, nor gather in from its untrimmed vines. 12 'For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You shall eat its crops out of the field. 13 'On this year of jubilee each of you shall return to his own property. 14 'If you make a sale, moreover, to your friend or buy from your friend's hand, you shall not wrong one another. 15 'Corresponding to the number of years after the jubilee, you shall buy from your friend; he is to sell to you according to the number of years of crops. 16 'In proportion to the extent of the years you shall increase its price, and in proportion to the fewness of the years you shall diminish its price, for it is a number of crops he is selling to you. 17 'So you shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God; for 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 is Pishon; it flows around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.
Genesis 10:7
The sons of Cush were Seba and Havilah and Sabtah and Raamah and Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan.
Genesis 10:29
and Ophir and Havilah and Jobab; all these were the sons of Joktan.
Genesis 13:10
Lot lifted up his eyes and saw all the valley of the Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere—this was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah—like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt as you go to Zoar.
Genesis 14:10
Now the valley of Siddim was full of tar pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and they fell into them. But those who survived fled to the hill country.
Genesis 16:12
"He will be a wild donkey of a man, His hand will be against everyone, And everyone's hand will be against him; And he will live to the east of all his brothers."
Genesis 20:1
Now Abraham journeyed from there toward the land of the Negev, and settled between Kadesh and Shur; then he sojourned in Gerar.
Genesis 21:14
So Abraham rose early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder, and gave her the boy, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered about in the wilderness of Beersheba.
Genesis 21:21
He lived in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
Genesis 25:23
The LORD said to her, "Two nations are in your womb; And two peoples will be separated from your body; And one people shall be stronger than the other; And the older shall 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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