You shall do my ordinances. You shall keep my statutes and walk in them. I am Yahweh your God.
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You shall do my ordinances. You shall keep my statutes and walk in them. I am Yahweh your God.
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Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the LORD your God.
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Mine ordinances shall ye do, and My statutes shall ye keep, to walk therein: I am the LORD your God.
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Passages linked to Leviticus 18:4 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Leviticus 18:2 “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘I am Yahweh your God.
- Leviticus 18:26 You therefore shall keep my statutes and my ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the native-born, nor the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you
- Leviticus 19:37 “ ‘You shall observe all my statutes and all my ordinances, and do them. I am Yahweh.’ ”
- Leviticus 20:22 “ ‘You shall therefore keep all my statutes and all my ordinances, and do them, that the land where I am bringing you to dwell may not vomit you out.
- Deuteronomy 6:1 Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land that you go over to possess;
- Psalms 119:4 You have commanded your precepts, that we should fully obey them.
- Ezekiel 20:19 I am Yahweh your God. Walk in my statutes, keep my ordinances, and do them.
- Ezekiel 36:27 I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes. You will keep my ordinances and do them.
- John 15:14 You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.
- Deuteronomy 4:1-2 Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances which I teach you, to do them; that you may live, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, gives you. You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of Yahweh your God which I command you.
- Psalms 105:45 that they might keep his statutes, and observe his laws. Praise Yah!
- Ezekiel 37:24 “ ‘ “My servant David will be king over them. They all will have one shepherd. They will also walk in my ordinances, and observe my statutes, and do them.
- Luke 1:6 They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Lev 18:4 Ye shall do my judgments, and keep…
Lev 18:4 Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I [am] the LORD your God.
Ver. 4. To walk therein.] Not to halt therein, nor to take a turn or two, or for a while, as Samson went with his parents till he met with a honeycomb; but indesinenter ambulabo, as David saith, {Psa 116:9} "Walk, and not be weary; run, and not faint," as those in Isa 40:31. "So run, that ye may obtain," saith the apostle. {1Co 9:24}
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain My judgments and mine ordinances; mine universally, Deu 27:26;…
My judgments and mine ordinances; mine universally, Deu 27:26; Gal 3:10; for though the words be indefinite, the matter is necessary; and mine solely, Deu 6:13, compared with Mat 4:10, and therefore those that here follow, though you do not see the particular reason of some of them, and though they be contrary to the laws and usages of the nations.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Ye shall do my judgments,.... Which are just and…
Ye shall do my judgments,.... Which are just and right, and according to the rules of justice and equity; these are things, as Jarchi observes, which are said in the law with judgment, or are laws framed with the highest reason, even by the judgment of God himself, whose judgment is always according to truth: Aben Ezra thinks, these are the judicial laws in Exo 21:1; but though they may include them, they have more particular respect to the following laws:
and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: which he had ordained and appointed of his own will and pleasure, which Jarchi calls the decree of the king, or which he decreed and determined as a king, having absolute power over his subjects to enact and enjoin what he pleased; wherefore some think these refer to ceremonial laws, which depended upon the will of the lawgiver, and were not founded in any natural sense or reason, wherefore it follows:
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I am the Lord your God: who had a right to make what laws he pleased, being their Sovereign, and which they in gratitude as well as in justice ought to obey, he being their God, their covenant God, who had done great and good things for them.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain My judgments - Though you do not see the…
My judgments - Though you do not see the particular reason of some of them, and though they be contrary to the laws and usages of the other nations.
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.
Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Lev 18:4. My judgments — Though you do not…
Lev 18:4. My judgments — Though you do not see the particular reason of some of them, and though they be contrary to the laws and usages of the other nations.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 4. Judgments — Judicial utterances or legal precepts.
4. Judgments — Judicial utterances or legal precepts.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (4) Ye shall do my judgments.—The expression “my judgments…
(4) Ye shall do my judgments.—The expression “my judgments and mine ordinances” is here used emphatically, in opposition to “their ordinances,” and has here the force of Mine only; just as the phrase “Him shalt thou serve” (Deu_6:13) is explained by Christ “Him only shalt thou serve” (Mat_4:10).
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 My laws are what you must do, and my…
My laws are what you must do, and my commandments are what you must keep
These two phrases mean basically the same thing and emphasize that the people must obey everything that Yahweh has commanded them to do. You can translate this parallelism into one statement that conveys the requirement to keep all of Yahweh's commands. AT: "You must obey all of my laws and commandments" (See: Parallelism)
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so that you walk in them
Obeying Yahweh's commandments is spoken of as if the commandments were a path on which the person walks. AT: "so that you conduct your behavior according to them" (See: Metaphor)
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 18:4-5 regulations . . . decrees: The Bible anticipated…
18:4-5 regulations . . . decrees: The Bible anticipated that the courts would need to interpret the laws that God had provided to apply them to different circumstances. Such interpretations became case laws; the body of these court decisions was called mishpatim in Hebrew (cp. “decrees” in 10:11). • Paul alludes to these verses in Rom 10:5 and Gal 3:12, where he contrasts the “way of faith” with the “way of law.”
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