New King James Version
Leviticus 18:4
4You shall observe My judgments and keep My ordinances, to walk in them: I am the Lord your God.
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.
- New International Version (NIV)You must obey my laws and be careful to follow my decrees. 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 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 children of Israel, and say to them: ‘I am the Lord your God. 3According to the doings of the land of Egypt, where you dwelt, you shall not do; and according to the doings of the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you, you shall not do; nor shall you walk in their ordinances. You shall observe My judgments and keep My ordinances, to walk in them: I am the Lord your God. 5You shall therefore keep My statutes and My judgments, which if a man does, he shall live by them: I am the Lord. 6‘None of you shall approach anyone who is near of kin to him, to uncover his nakedness: I am the Lord.
Read all of Leviticus 18Leviticus 18:4 word by word
אֶת־מִשְׁפָּטַ֧י תַּעֲשׂ֛וּ וְאֶת־חֻקֹּתַ֥י תִּשְׁמְר֖וּ לָלֶ֣כֶת בָּהֶ֑ם אֲנִ֖י יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵיכֶֽם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Leviticus 18:4
- Leviticus 18:26You shall therefore keep My statutes and My judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations, either any of your own nation or any stranger who dwells among you
- Leviticus 19:37‘Therefore you shall observe all My statutes and all My judgments, and perform them: I am the Lord.’ ”
- Leviticus 20:22‘You shall therefore keep all My statutes and all My judgments, and perform them, that the land where I am bringing you to dwell may not vomit you out.
- Deuteronomy 4:1“Now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and the judgments which I teach you to observe, that you may live, and go in and possess the land which the Lord God of your fathers is giving you.
- Deuteronomy 6:1“Now this is the commandment, and these are the statutes and judgments which the Lord your God has commanded to teach you, that you may observe them in the land which you are crossing over to possess,
- Psalms 105:45That they might observe His statutes And keep His laws. Praise the Lord!
- Psalms 119:4You have commanded us To keep Your precepts diligently.
- Ezekiel 20:19I am the Lord your God: Walk in My statutes, keep My judgments, and do them;
- Ezekiel 36:27I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them.
- Ezekiel 37:24“David My servant shall be king over them, and they shall all have one shepherd; they shall also walk in My judgments and observe My statutes, and do them.
- Luke 1:6And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
- John 15:14You are My friends if you do whatever I command you.
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
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