Leviticus 26:3-5

The Benefits of Obedience

26:3 “‘If you walk in my statutes and are sure to obey my commandments, 26:4 I will give you your rains in their time so that the land will give its yield and the trees of the field will produce their fruit. 26:5 Threshing season will extend for you until the season for harvesting grapes, and the season for harvesting grapes will extend until sowing season, so you will eat your bread until you are satisfied, and you will live securely in your land.


tn Heb “and my commandments you shall keep and do them.” This appears to be a kind of verbal hendiadys, where the first verb is a modifier of the action of the second verb (see GKC 386 §120.d, although שָׁמַר [shamar, “to keep”] is not cited there; cf. Lev 20:8; 25:18, etc.).

tn Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative force here.

tn Heb “the tree of the field will give its fruit.” As a collective singular this has been translated as plural.

tn Heb “will reach for you the vintage season.”

tn Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative force here.

tn Heb “to satisfaction”; KJV, ASV, NASB “to the full.”