Tree of Life Version
Leviticus 18:4
4You are to obey My ordinances and keep My statutes and walk in them—I am Adonai 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 King James Version (NKJV)You shall observe My judgments and keep My ordinances, to walk in them: I am the Lord your God.
Context of Leviticus 18:4
2“Speak to Bnei-Yisrael and say to them: I am Adonai your God. 3You are not to act as they do in the land of Egypt, where you used to live. Nor are you to act as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you, nor are you to walk in their customs. You are to obey My ordinances and keep My statutes and walk in them—I am Adonai your God. 5So you are to keep My statutes and My ordinances. The one who does them will live by them. I am Adonai. 6“None of you is to come near anyone who is his close relatives to uncover their nakedness. I am Adonai.
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, however, are to keep My statutes and My ordinances, and do none of these abominations, neither the native-born, nor the outsider dwelling among you.
- Leviticus 19:37You must observe all My statutes and all My ordinances—do them. I am Adonai.”
- Leviticus 20:22“Now you are to keep all My statutes and all My ordinances and do them, so that the land where I am bringing you to dwell will not vomit you out.
- Deuteronomy 4:1“Now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and ordinances that I am teaching you to do, so that you may live and go in and possess the land that Adonai the God of your fathers is giving you.
- Deuteronomy 6:1“Now this is the commandment, the statutes and ordinances that Adonai your God commanded to teach you to do in the land you are crossing over to possess—
- Psalms 105:45so that they might keep His statutes and observe His laws. Halleluyah!
- Psalms 119:4You have commanded that Your precepts be kept diligently.
- Ezekiel 20:19I am Adonai your God. Walk in My statutes, keep My ordinances and do them.
- Ezekiel 36:27I will put My Ruach within you. Then I will cause you to walk in My laws, so you will keep My rulings and do them.
- Ezekiel 37:24My servant David will be king over them. They will all have One Shepherd. They will walk in My ordinances and observe My rulings and do them.
- Luke 1:6Together they were righteous before Adonai, walking without fault in all His commandments and instructions.
- John 15:14You are My friends if you do what 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
In the dictionaries
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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