Leviticus 26 · Verse 3

Leviticus 26:3

If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;
Leviticus 26:3, King James Version

Leviticus 26:3 in other translations

BSBIf you follow My statutes and carefully keep My commandments,
WEB“‘If you walk in my statutes and keep my commandments, and do them,
ASVIf ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;
YLT‘If in My statutes ye walk, and My commands ye keep, and have done them,
DARBYIf ye walk in my statutes, and observe my commandments and do them,
BBEIf you are guided by my rules, and keep my laws and do them,
WebsterIf ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;

What does Leviticus 26:3 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

Le 26:3-13. A Blessing to the Obedient.

3. 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.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 3 If ye walk in my statutes - For the meaning of this and similar words used in the law, See the note on Lev 26:15.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Leviticus 26:1-13

This chapter contains a general enforcement of all the laws given by Moses; by promises of reward in case of obedience, on the one hand; and threatenings of punishment for disobedience, on the other. While Israel maintained a national regard to God's worship, sabbaths, and sanctuary, and did not turn aside to idolatry, the Lord engaged to continue to them temporal mercies and religious advantages. These great and…

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Leviticus 26:3 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

אִם\־'im-ifH518
בְּחֻקֹּתַ֖יbe.chu.ko.Taiin statutes myH2708
תֵּלֵ֑כוּte.Le.khuyou will walkH1980
וְאֶת\־ve.'Etand <obj.>H853
מִצְוֹתַ֣יmitz.vo.Taicommandments myH4687
תִּשְׁמְר֔וּtish.me.Ruyou will keepH8104
וַעֲשִׂיתֶ֖םva.'a.si.Temand you will doH6213
אֹתָֽם\׃'o.Tam<obj.> themH853

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Cross references for Leviticus 26:3

  • Isaiah 1:19

    If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:

  • Deuteronomy 28:1-14

    And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God. Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field. Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. …

  • Deuteronomy 11:13-15

    And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil. And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full.

  • Isaiah 48:18-19

    O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea: Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.

  • Psalms 81:12-16

    So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels. Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways! I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries. The haters of the Lord should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever. …

  • Judges 2:1-2

    And an angel of the Lord came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you. And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice: why have ye done this?

  • Romans 2:7-10

    To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life: But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile; But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:

  • Matthew 7:24-25

    Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.

  • Deuteronomy 7:12

    Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the Lord thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers:

  • Revelation 22:14

    Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.

  • Joshua 23:14-15

    And, behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth: and ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the Lord your God spake concerning you; all are come to pass unto you, and not one thing hath failed thereof. Therefore it shall come to pass, that as all good things are come upon you, which the Lord your God promised you; so shall the Lord bring upon you all evil things, until he have destroyed you from off this good land which the Lord your God hath given you.

  • Leviticus 18:4-5

    Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the Lord your God. Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the Lord.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
18:4,5; De 11:13-15; 28:1-14; Jos 23:14,15; Jud 2:1,2; Ps 81:12-16
Isa 1:19; 48:18,19; Mt 7:24,25; Ro 2:7-10; Re 22:14

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Context

  • Leviticus 26:2

    Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.

  • Leviticus 26:3

    If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;

  • Leviticus 26:4

    Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

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Leviticus 26:3 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Si anduviereis en mis decretos, y guardareis mis mandamientos, y los pusiereis por obra;
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Si vous marchez dans mes statuts, et si vous gardez mes commandements et les pratiquez,
German
Elberfelder 1871
Wenn ihr in meinen Satzungen wandelt und meine Gebote beobachtet und sie tut,
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Si in præceptis meis ambulaveritis, et mandata mea custodieritis, et feceritis ea, dabo vobis pluvias temporibus suis,