Leviticus 18:5

Translations

Modern

Keep My statutes and My judgments, for the man who does these things will live by them. I am the LORD.

Traditional

Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the Lord.

Literal

And you shall keep My statutes and My judgments, which the man shall do them, and he shall live by them. I am YHWH.

Latin

Custodite leges meas atque judicia, quæ faciens homo, vivet in eis. Ego Dominus.

Original

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English

Keep My statutes and My judgments, for the man who does these things will live by them. I am the LORD.

Notes

Leviticus 18:4–5

judgments … statutes: The Bible anticipated that courts would interpret God's laws for different situations. These interpretations became case laws, known as mishpatim in Hebrew (see “statutes” in Leviticus 10:11).
Paul refers to these verses in Romans 10:5 and Galatians 3:12, where he contrasts living "based on faith” or “by the law.”

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