Leviticus 3:17
Context3:17 This is 1 a perpetual statute throughout your generations 2 in all the places where you live: You must never eat any fat or any blood.’” 3
Leviticus 16:31
Context16:31 It is to be a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you must humble yourselves. 4 It is a perpetual statute. 5
Leviticus 18:4
Context18:4 You must observe my regulations 6 and you must be sure to walk in my statutes. 7 I am the Lord your God.
Leviticus 19:37
Context19:37 You must be sure to obey all my statutes and regulations. 8 I am the Lord.’”
Leviticus 23:31
Context23:31 You must not do any work. This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations 9 in all the places where you live.
Leviticus 25:18
Context25:18 You must obey my statutes and my regulations; you must be sure to keep them 10 so that you may live securely in the land. 11


[3:17] 1 tn The words “This is” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied due to requirements of English style.
[3:17] 2 tn Heb “for your generations”; NAB “for your descendants”; NLT “for you and all your descendants.”
[3:17] 3 tn Heb “all fat and all blood you must not eat.”
[16:31] 4 tn See the note on v. 29 above.
[16:31] 5 tn Compare v. 29a above.
[18:4] 7 tn Heb “My regulations you shall do”; KJV, NASB “my judgments”; NRSV “My ordinances”; NIV, TEV “my laws.”
[18:4] 8 tn Heb “and my statutes you shall keep [or “watch; guard”] to walk in them.”
[19:37] 10 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).
[23:31] 13 tn Heb “for your generations.”
[25:18] 16 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] 17 tn Heb “and you shall dwell on the land to security.”