Leviticus 18:4

Leviticus 18:4 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the Lord your God.
• English Standard Version (ESV)You shall follow my rules and keep my statutes and walk in them. I am the Lord your God.
• New King James Version (NKJV)You shall observe My judgments and keep My ordinances, to walk in them: I am the Lord your God.
• New Living Translation (NLT)You must obey all my regulations and be careful to obey my decrees, for I am the Lord your God.

Context of Leviticus 18:4

2“Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘I am the Lord your God. 3You must not do as they do in Egypt, where you used to live, and you must not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you. Do not follow their practices. You must obey my laws and be careful to follow my decrees. I am the Lord your God. 5Keep my decrees and laws, for the person who obeys them will live by them. I am the Lord. 6“ ‘No one is to approach any close relative to have sexual relations. I am the Lord.

Leviticus 18:4 word by word

אֶת־מִשְׁפָּטַ֧י תַּעֲשׂ֛וּ וְאֶת־חֻקֹּתַ֥י תִּשְׁמְר֖וּ לָלֶ֣כֶת בָּהֶ֑ם אֲנִ֖י יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵיכֶֽם׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Ye shall doעָשָׂה‛âώâh · to make: doH6213
• my judgmentsמִשְׁפָּטmishpâţ · justice: judgementH4941
• and keepשָׁמַרshâmar · to keep: obeyH8104
• mine ordinancesחֻקָּהchûqqâh · statuteH2708
• to walkיָלַךְyâlak · to walkH3212
• the Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
• your Godאֱלֹהִים'ĕlôhîym · GodH430

Cross-references for Leviticus 18:4

• Leviticus 18:26But you must keep my decrees and my laws. The native-born and the foreigners residing among you must not do any of these detestable things,
• Leviticus 19:37“ ‘Keep all my decrees and all my laws and follow them. I am the Lord.’ ”
• Leviticus 20:22“ ‘Keep all my decrees and laws and follow them, so that the land where I am bringing you to live may not vomit you out.
• Deuteronomy 4:1Now, Israel, hear the decrees and laws I am about to teach you. Follow them so that you may live and may go in and take possession of the land the Lord, the God of your ancestors, is giving you.
• Deuteronomy 6:1These are the commands, decrees and laws the Lord your God directed me to teach you to observe in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess,
• Psalms 105:45that they might keep his precepts and observe his laws. Praise the Lord.
• Psalms 119:4You have laid down precepts that are to be fully obeyed.
• Ezekiel 20:19I am the Lord your God; follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.
• Ezekiel 36:27And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.
• Ezekiel 37:24“ ‘My servant David will be king over them, and they will all have one shepherd. They will follow my laws and be careful to keep my decrees.
• Luke 1:6Both of them were righteous in the sight of God, observing all the Lord’s commands and decrees blamelessly.
• John 15:14You are my friends if you do what I command.

Commentaries on Leviticus 18:4

• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 4-5judgments … statutes: The Bible anticipated that courts would interpret God's laws for different situations. These interpretations became case laws, known as mishpatim in Hebrew (see “statutes” in Leviticus 10:11). Paul refers to these verses in Romans 10:5 and Galatians 3:12, where he contrasts living "based on faith” or “by the law.”Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-302-4. I am the Lord your God--This renewed mention of the divine sovereignty over the Israelites was intended to bear particularly on some laws that were widely different from the social customs that obtained both in Egypt and Canaan; for the enormities, which the laws enumerated in this chapter were intended to put down, were freely practised or publicly sanctioned in both of those countries; and, indeed, the extermination of the ancient Canaanites is…Read the comment

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Commentaries on Leviticus 18

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings