Tree of Life Version
Leviticus 26:3
3“If you walk in My statutes, keep My mitzvot and carry them out,
Leviticus 26:3 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;
- New International Version (NIV)“ ‘If you follow my decrees and are careful to obey my commands,
- English Standard Version (ESV)"If you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them,
- New King James Version (NKJV)‘If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments, and perform them,
Context of Leviticus 26:3
1“You are not to make idols for yourselves, nor raise up an engraved image or a standing-stone, or place any carved stone in your land to bow down to it. For I am Adonai your God. 2“You are to keep My Shabbatot and have reverence for My Sanctuary. I am Adonai. “If you walk in My statutes, keep My mitzvot and carry them out, 4then I will give you rains in their season, the land will yield its crops, and the trees of the field will yield their fruit. 5Your threshing will last until grape gathering, the grape gathering will last until the sowing time, you will eat your bread to the full, and live securely in your land.
Read all of Leviticus 26Leviticus 26:3 word by word
אִם־בְּחֻקֹּתַ֖י תֵּלֵ֑כוּ וְאֶת־מִצְוֹתַ֣י תִּשְׁמְר֔וּ וַעֲשִׂיתֶ֖ם אֹתָֽם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Leviticus 26:3
- Leviticus 18:4You are to obey My ordinances and keep My statutes and walk in them—I am Adonai your God.
- Deuteronomy 11:13“Now if you listen obediently to My mitzvot that I am commanding you today—to love Adonai your God and to serve Him with all your heart and soul—
- Deuteronomy 28:1“Now if you listen obediently to the voice of Adonai your God, taking care to do all His mitzvot that I am commanding you today, Adonai your God will set you on high—above all the nations of the earth.
- Joshua 23:14“Now today I am about to go the way of all the earth. You will know with all your heart and with all your soul that not one word of the good things which Adonai your God spoke concerning you has failed to happen. All of them have come to pass for you; not one word has failed.
- Judges 2:1Now the angel of Adonai came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and He said, “I brought you up out of Egypt and took you into the land which I swore to your fathers. I also said, ‘I will never break My covenant with you.
- Psalms 81:12But My people did not listen to My voice. Israel was not willing to be Mine.
- Isaiah 1:19If you are willing and obey, you will eat the good of the land.
- Isaiah 48:18If only you had listened to My commandments! then your peace would be like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.
- Matthew 7:24“Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
- Romans 2:7To those who by perseverance in doing good are seeking glory, honor, and immortality—eternal life.
- Revelation 22:14How fortunate are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the Tree of Life and may enter through the gates into the city.
Commentaries on Leviticus 26:3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3If ye walk in my statutes - For the meaning of this and similar words used in the law, See the note on Leviticus 26:15.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3-45Verses 3-45 As “the book of the covenant” Exodus 23:20-33, so does this collection of laws contained in the Book of Leviticus. But the former passage relates to the conquest of the land of promise, this one to the subsequent history of the nation. The longer similar passage in Deuteronomy Leviticus 26:4 Rain in due season - The periodical rains, on which the fertility of the holy land so much depends, are here spoken of. There are two wet seasons, called…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3Treaties and covenants had conditions. Israel's blessings depended on the people's obedience to God's terms, to whom they had sworn obedience (Exodus 24:7; Joshua 24:21–22). But the covenant itself was unchangeable (Leviticus 26:44–45; see Romans 11:29). Israel could not cancel it. The people had two choices: obedience, which brought blessings; or rebellion, which brought curses.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 3-133. If ye walk in my statutes--In that covenant into which God graciously entered with the people of Israel, He promised to bestow upon them a variety of blessings, so long as they continued obedient to Him as their Almighty Ruler; and in their subsequent history that people found every promise amply fulfilled, in the enjoyment of plenty, peace, a populous country, and victory over all enemies.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Leviticus 26
- 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
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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