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Leviticus 18:5 KJV
Leviticus · chapter 18 · verse 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 18:5 · King James Version
Leviticus 18:5 in context
3After 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.
4Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the LORD your God.
5Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.
6None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the LORD.
7The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she is thy mother; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- judgmentsmishpâṭproperly, a verdict pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree divine…H4941 →
- statuteschuqqâh{an enactmentH2708 →
- keepshâmarproperly, to hedge aboutH8104 →
- livechâyayto liveH2425 →
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After divers ceremonial institutions, God here returns to the enforcement of moral precepts. The former are still of use to us as types, the latter still binding as laws. We have here, 1.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-5