Leviticus 18:5

18:5 So you must keep my statutes and my regulations; anyone who does so will live by keeping them. I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 20:11

20:11 I gave them my statutes and revealed my regulations to them. The one who carries them out will live by them!

Ezekiel 20:21

20:21 “‘But the children rebelled against me, did not follow my statutes, did not observe my regulations by carrying them out (the one who obeys them will live by them), and desecrated my Sabbaths. I decided to pour out my rage on them and fully vent my anger against them in the wilderness.

Romans 10:5

10:5 For Moses writes about the righteousness that is by the law: “The one who does these things will live by them.” 10 


tn Heb “And you shall keep.”

tn Heb “which the man shall do them and shall live in them.” The term for “a man, human being; mankind” (אָדָם, ’adam; see the note on Lev 1:2) in this case refers to any person among “mankind,” male or female. The expression וָחַי (vakhay, “and shall live”) looks like the adjective “living” so it is written וְחָיָה (vÿkhayah) in Smr, but the MT form is simply the same verb written as a double ayin verb (see HALOT 309 s.v. חיה qal and GKC 218 §76.i; cf. Lev 25:35).

sn The laws were given at Mount Sinai.

tn Heb “the man.”

tn Heb “does.”

tn The wording and the concept is contained in Lev 18:5 and Deut 30:15-19.

tn Heb “sons.”

tn Or “carries them out.”

tn Heb “and I said/thought to pour out.”

10 sn A quotation from Lev 18:5.