Leviticus 22:31

22:31 “You must be sure to do my commandments. ¹  I am the Lord.

Leviticus 19:30

Purity, Honor, Respect, and Honesty

19:30 “‘You must keep my Sabbaths and fear my sanctuary. I am the Lord.

Leviticus 20:8

20:8 You must be sure to obey my statutes. ²  I am the Lord who sanctifies you.

Leviticus 26:2-3

26:2 You must keep my Sabbaths and reverence ³  my sanctuary. I am the Lord.

The Benefits of Obedience

26:3 “‘If you walk in my statutes and are sure to obey my commandments, ⁴ 

Leviticus 18:4

18:4 You must observe my regulations ⁵  and you must be sure to walk in my statutes. ⁶  I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 19:3

19:3 Each of you must respect his mother and his father, ⁷  and you must keep my Sabbaths. I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 19:37

19:37 You must be sure to obey all my statutes and regulations. ⁸  I am the Lord.’”

Leviticus 25:18

25:18 You must obey my statutes and my regulations; you must be sure to keep them ⁹  so that you may live securely in the land. ¹⁰ 

Leviticus 8:35

8:35 You must reside at the entrance of the Meeting Tent day and night for seven days and keep the charge of the Lord so that you will not die, for this is what I have been commanded.”

Leviticus 18:5

18:5 So you must keep ¹¹  my statutes and my regulations; anyone who does so will live by keeping them. ¹²  I am the Lord.

Leviticus 18:26

18:26 You yourselves must obey ¹³  my statutes and my regulations and must not do any of these abominations, both the native citizen and the resident foreigner in your midst, ¹⁴ 

Leviticus 18:30

18:30 You must obey my charge to not practice any of the abominable statutes ¹⁵  that have been done before you, so that you do not ¹⁶  defile yourselves by them. I am the Lord your God.’”

Leviticus 19:19

19:19 You must keep my statutes. You must not allow two different kinds of your animals to breed, ¹⁷  you must not sow your field with two different kinds of seed, and you must not wear ¹⁸  a garment made of two different kinds of fabric. ¹⁹ 

Leviticus 22:9

22:9 They must keep my charge so that they do not incur sin on account of it ²⁰  and therefore die ²¹  because they profane it. I am the Lord who sanctifies them.

Leviticus 20:22

Exhortation to Holiness and Obedience

20:22 “‘You must be sure to obey all my statutes and regulations, ²²  so that ²³  the land to which I am about to bring you to take up residence there does not vomit you out.

[22:31]  ¹ tn Heb “And you shall keep my commandments 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 20:8, etc.).

[20:8]  ² tn Heb “And you shall keep my statutes 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.).

[26:2]  ³ tn Heb “and my sanctuary you shall fear.” Cf. NCV “respect”; CEV “honor.”

[26:3]  ⁴ 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.).

[18:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “My regulations you shall do”; KJV, NASB “my judgments”; NRSV “My ordinances”; NIV, TEV “my laws.”

[18:4]  ⁶ tn Heb “and my statutes you shall keep [or “watch; guard”] to walk in them.”

[19:3]  ⁶ tn Heb “A man his mother and his father you [plural] shall fear.” The LXX, Syriac, Vulgate, and certain Targum mss reverse the order, “his father and his mother.” The term “fear” is subject to misunderstanding by the modern reader, so “respect” has been used in the translation. Cf. NAB, NRSV “revere”; NASB “reverence.”

[19:37]  ⁷ 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).

[25:18]  ⁸ tn Heb “And 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, etc.).

[25:18]  ⁹ tn Heb “and you shall dwell on the land to security.”

[18:5]  ⁹ tn Heb “And you shall keep.”

[18:5]  ¹⁰ 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]  ¹⁰ 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]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the native and the sojourner”; NIV “The native-born and the aliens”; NAB “whether natives or resident aliens.”

[18:30]  ¹¹ tn Heb “to not do from the statutes of the detestable acts.”

[18:30]  ¹² tn Heb “and you will not.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative force here.

[19:19]  ¹² tn Heb “Your animals, you shall not cross-breed two different kinds.”

[19:19]  ¹³ tn Heb “you shall not cause to go up on you.”

[19:19]  ¹⁴ sn Cf. Deut 22:11 where the Hebrew term translated “two different kinds” (כִּלְאַיִם, kil’ayim) refers to a mixture of linen and wool woven together in a garment.

[22:9]  ¹³ tn Heb “and they will not lift up on it sin.” The pronoun “it” (masculine) apparently refers to any item of food that belongs to the category of “holy offerings” (see above).

[22:9]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and die in it.”

[20:22]  ¹⁴ 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]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative force here.