Leviticus 18:4
Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the Lord your God.
Leviticus 18:4 in other translations
| BSB | You are to practice My judgments and keep My statutes by walking in them. I am the LORD your God. |
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| WEB | You shall do my ordinances. You shall keep my statutes and walk in them. I am the LORD your God. |
| ASV | Mine ordinances shall ye do, and my statutes shall ye keep, to walk therein: I am Jehovah your God. |
| YLT | ‘My judgments ye do, and My statutes ye keep, to walk in them; I am Jehovah your God; |
| DARBY | Mine ordinances shall ye do and my statutes shall ye observe to walk therein: I am Jehovah your God. |
| BBE | But you are to be guided by my decisions and keep my rules, and be guided by them: I am the Lord your God. |
| Webster | Ye shall perform my judgments, and keep my ordinances, to walk in them; I am the LORD your God. |
What does Leviticus 18:4 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Leviticus 18:2-4
Le 18:1-30. Unlawful Marriages. 2-4. 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…
Leviticus 18:4 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Leviticus 18:4
- Ezekiel 20:19
I am the Lord your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them;
- Leviticus 18:2
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, I am the Lord your God.
- Psalms 119:4
Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently.
- John 15:14
Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
- Ezekiel 36:27
And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
- Leviticus 19:37
Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I am the Lord.
- Leviticus 20:22
Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out.
- Leviticus 18:26
Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:
- Deuteronomy 6:1
Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it:
- Psalms 105:45
That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise ye the Lord.
- Luke 1:6
And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
- Ezekiel 37:24
And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.
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Context
- Leviticus 18:3
After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances.
- Leviticus 18:4
Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the Lord your God.
- Leviticus 18:5
Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the Lord.
Leviticus 18:4 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Mis derechos pondréis por obra, y mis estatutos guardaréis, andando en ellos: Yo Jehová vuestro Dios. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Vous pratiquerez mes ordonnances, et vous garderez mes statuts pour y marcher. Moi, je suis l’ Éternel, votre Dieu. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Meine Rechte sollt ihr tun und meine Satzungen sollt ihr beobachten, darin zu wandeln. Ich bin Jehova, euer Gott. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Facietis judicia mea, et præcepta mea servabitis, et ambulabitis in eis. Ego Dominus Deus vester. |