Leviticus 18:5

18:5 So you must keep ¹  my statutes and my regulations; anyone who does so will live by keeping them. ²  I am the Lord.

Leviticus 18:26

18:26 You yourselves must obey ³  my statutes and my regulations and must not do any of these abominations, both the native citizen and the resident foreigner in your midst, ⁴ 

Leviticus 19:37

19:37 You must be sure to obey all my statutes and regulations. ⁵  I am the Lord.’”

Leviticus 20:22

Exhortation to Holiness and Obedience

20:22 “‘You must be sure to obey all my statutes and regulations, ⁶  so that ⁷  the land to which I am about to bring you to take up residence there does not vomit you out.

Numbers 35:24

35:24 then the community must judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood according to these decisions.

Numbers 36:13

36:13 These are the commandments and the decisions that the Lord commanded the Israelites through the authority ⁸  of Moses, on the plains of Moab by the Jordan River ⁹  opposite Jericho. ¹⁰ 

Deuteronomy 5:1

The Opening Exhortation

5:1 Then Moses called all the people of Israel together and said to them: ¹¹  “Listen, Israel, to the statutes and ordinances that I am about to deliver to you today; learn them and be careful to keep them!

Deuteronomy 5:31

5:31 But as for you, remain here with me so I can declare to you all the commandments, ¹²  statutes, and ordinances that you are to teach them, so that they can carry them out in the land I am about to give them.” ¹³ 

Deuteronomy 6:20

Exhortation to Remember the Past

6:20 When your children ¹⁴  ask you later on, “What are the stipulations, statutes, and ordinances that the Lord our God commanded you?”

Deuteronomy 6:1

Exhortation to Keep the Covenant Principles

6:1 Now these are the commandments, ¹⁵  statutes, and ordinances that the Lord your God instructed me to teach you so that you may carry them out in the land where you are headed ¹⁶ 

Deuteronomy 6:12

6:12 be careful not to forget the Lord who brought you out of Egypt, that place of slavery. ¹⁷ 

Deuteronomy 6:2

6:2 and that you may so revere the Lord your God that you will keep all his statutes and commandments ¹⁸  that I am giving ¹⁹  you – you, your children, and your grandchildren – all your lives, to prolong your days.

Deuteronomy 19:10

19:10 You must not shed innocent blood ²⁰  in your land that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, for that would make you guilty. ²¹ 

Nehemiah 9:13-14

9:13 “You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven. You provided them with just judgments, true laws, and good statutes and commandments. 9:14 You made known to them your holy Sabbath; you issued commandments, statutes, and law to them through ²²  Moses your servant.

Nehemiah 10:29

10:29 hereby participate with their colleagues the town leaders ²³  and enter into a curse and an oath ²⁴  to adhere to ²⁵  the law of God which was given through Moses the servant of God, and to obey ²⁶  carefully all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, ²⁷  along with his ordinances and his statutes.

Psalms 147:19

147:19 He proclaims his word to Jacob,

his statutes and regulations to Israel.

Ezekiel 20:11

20:11 I gave them my statutes ²⁸  and revealed my regulations to them. The one ²⁹  who carries ³⁰  them out will live by them! ³¹ 

Ezekiel 20:25

20:25 I also gave ³²  them decrees ³³  which were not good and regulations by which they could not live.

Malachi 4:4

Restoration through the Lord

4:4 “Remember the law of my servant Moses, to whom at Horeb ³⁴  I gave rules and regulations for all Israel to obey. ³⁵ 

[18:5]  ¹ tn Heb “And you shall keep.”

[18:5]  ² 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).

[18:26]  ³ tn Heb “And you shall keep, you.” The latter emphatic personal pronoun “you” is left out of a few medieval Hebrew mss, Smr, the LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate.

[18:26]  ⁴ tn Heb “the native and the sojourner”; NIV “The native-born and the aliens”; NAB “whether natives or resident aliens.”

[19:37]  ⁵ tn Heb “And you shall keep all my statutes and all my regulations and you shall 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 22:31).

[20:22]  ⁶ tn Heb “And you shall keep all my statutes and all my regulations and you shall 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 22:31, etc.).

[20:22]  ⁷ tn Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative force here.

[36:13]  ⁸ tn Heb “by the hand.”

[36:13]  ⁹ tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[36:13]  ¹⁰ map For the location of Jericho see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.

[5:1]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and Moses called to all Israel and he said to them”; NAB, NASB, NIV “Moses summoned (convened NRSV) all Israel.”

[5:31]  ¹² tn Heb “commandment.” The MT actually has the singular (הַמִּצְוָה, hammitsvah), suggesting perhaps that the following terms (חֻקִּים [khuqqim] and מִשְׁפָּטִים [mishpatim]) are in epexegetical apposition to “commandment.” That is, the phrase could be translated “the entire command, namely, the statutes and ordinances.” This would essentially make מִצְוָה (mitsvah) synonymous with תּוֹרָה (torah), the usual term for the whole collection of law.

[5:31]  ¹³ tn Heb “to possess it” (so KJV, ASV); NLT “as their inheritance.”

[6:20]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “your son.”

[6:1]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “commandment.” The word מִצְוָה (mitsvah) again is in the singular, serving as a comprehensive term for the whole stipulation section of the book. See note on the word “commandments” in 5:31.

[6:1]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “where you are going over to possess it” (so NASB); NRSV “that you are about to cross into and occupy.”

[6:12]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “out of the house of slavery” (so NASB, NRSV).

[6:2]  ¹⁸ tn Here the terms are not the usual חֻקִּים (khuqqim) and מִשְׁפָּטִים (mishpatim; as in v. 1) but חֻקֹּת (khuqqot, “statutes”) and מִצְוֹת (mitsot, “commandments”). It is clear that these terms are used interchangeably and that their technical precision ought not be overly stressed.

[6:2]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “commanding.” For stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy, “giving” has been used in the translation.

[19:10]  ²⁰ tn Heb “innocent blood must not be shed.” The Hebrew phrase דָּם נָקִי (dam naqiy) means the blood of a person to whom no culpability or responsibility adheres because what he did was without malice aforethought (HALOT 224 s.v דָּם 4.b).

[19:10]  ²¹ tn Heb “and blood will be upon you” (cf. KJV, ASV); NRSV “thereby bringing bloodguilt upon you.”

[9:14]  ²² tn Heb “by the hand of.”

[10:29]  ²³ tn Heb “the nobles.”

[10:29]  ²⁴ tn The expression “a curse and an oath” may be a hendiadys, meaning “an oath with penalties.”

[10:29]  ²⁵ tn Heb “to walk in.”

[10:29]  ²⁶ tn Heb “keep.” See the note on the word “obey” in Neh 1:5.

[10:29]  ²⁷ tn The Hebrew term translated “Lord” here is אֲדֹנָי (’adonay).

[20:11]  ²⁸ sn The laws were given at Mount Sinai.

[20:11]  ²⁹ tn Heb “the man.”

[20:11]  ³⁰ tn Heb “does.”

[20:11]  ³¹ tn The wording and the concept is contained in Lev 18:5 and Deut 30:15-19.

[20:25]  ³² tn Or “permitted.”

[20:25]  ³³ tn The Hebrew term חֻקּוֹת (khuqot; translated “statutes” elsewhere in this chapter) is normally feminine. Here Ezekiel changes the form to masculine: חֻקִּים (khuqim). Further, they are not called “my decrees” as vv. 11 and 13 refer to “my statutes.” The change is a signal that Ezekiel is not talking about the same statutes in vv. 11 and 13, which lead to life.

[4:4]  ³⁴ sn Horeb is another name for Mount Sinai (cf. Exod 3:1).

[4:4]  ³⁵ tn Heb “which I commanded him in Horeb concerning all Israel, statutes and ordinances.”