Text -- Leviticus 18:4 (NET)

18:4 You must observe my regulations and you must be sure to walk in my statutes. I am the Lord your God.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Lev 18:4

¹ tn Heb “My regulations you shall do”; KJV, NASB “my judgments”; NRSV “My ordinances”; NIV, TEV “my laws.”

sn The Hebrew term translated “regulation” (מִשְׁפָּט, mishpat) refers to the set of regulations about to be set forth in the following chapters (cf. Lev 19:37; 20:22; 25:18; 26:46). Note especially the thematic and formulaic relationships between the introduction here in Lev 18:1-5 and the paraenesis in Lev 20:22-26, both of which refer explicitly to the corrupt nations and the need to separate from them by keeping the Lord’s regulations.

² tn Heb “and my statutes you shall keep [or “watch; guard”] to walk in them.”