Leviticus 18:5 BSB — MannaFest

Leviticus 18:5

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

BSB

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ASV

Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and mine ordinances; which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am Jehovah.

KJV

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

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Commentary

3 voices

Jerome

HOMILY 76 (420)

"The man who carries out the law will find life through it." Scripture did not say he will find life through it, in the sense that through the law he will live in heaven, but he will find life through it to the extent that what he merits, he reaps in the present world.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

And though in strictness, and according to the covenant of works they could not challenge life for so doing, except their obedience was universal, perfect, constant and perpetual, and therefore no man since the fall could be justified by the law, yet by the covenant of grace this life is promised to all that obey God's commands sincerely.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

If a man keeps the “statutes” (i. e. the ordinances of Lev 18:4) and “judgments” of the divine law, he shall not be “cut off from his people” (compare Lev 18:29), he shall gain true life, the life which connects him with Yahweh through his obedience. See the margin reference and Luk 10:28; Rom 10:5; Gal 3:12.

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וּשְׁמַרְתֶּ֤ם	u.she.mar.Tem	and you will keep	H8104 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
חֻקֹּתַי֙	chu.ko.Tai	statutes my	H2708 →
וְאֶת־	ve.'Et	and <obj.>	H853 →
מִשְׁפָּטַ֔י	mish.pa.Tai	judgments my	H4941 →
אֲשֶׁ֨ר	'a.Sher	which	H834 →
יַעֲשֶׂ֥ה	ya.'a.Seh	he will do	H6213 →
אֹתָ֛ם	'o.Tam	<obj.> them	H853 →
הָאָדָ֖ם	ha.'a.Dam	<the> humankind	H120 →
וָחַ֣י	va.Chai	and he will live	H2421 →
בָּהֶ֑ם	ba.Hem	by <the> them
אֲנִ֖י	'a.Ni	I	H589 →
יְהוָֽה׃ ס	Yah.weh	[am] Yahweh	H3068 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Romans 10:5
For concerning the righteousness that is by the law, Moses writes: “The man who does these things will live by them.”
leads to
- Ezekiel 20:13
  Yet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not follow My statutes and they rejected My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they utterly…
  Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
- Ezekiel 20:11
  And I gave them My statutes and made known to them My ordinances—for the man who does these things will live by them.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Nehemiah 9:29
  You admonished them to turn back to Your law, but they were arrogant and disobeyed Your commandments. They sinned against Your ordinances, by which a man will live if he practices them. They stubbornly…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Ezekiel 20:21
  But the children rebelled against Me. They did not walk in My statutes or carefully observe My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they profaned My Sabbaths. So I…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Galatians 3:12
  The law, however, is not based on faith; on the contrary, “The man who does these things will live by them.”
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Ezekiel 20:13
Yet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not follow My statutes and they rejected My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they utterly…
leads to
- Ezekiel 20:8
  But they rebelled against Me and refused to listen. None of them cast away the abominations before their eyes, and they did not forsake the idols of Egypt. So I resolved to pour out…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Galatians 3:12
The law, however, is not based on faith; on the contrary, “The man who does these things will live by them.”
leads to
- Romans 10:5–6
  For concerning the righteousness that is by the law, Moses writes: “The man who does these things will live by them.”
- Romans 4:14
  For if those who live by the law are heirs, faith is useless and the promise is worthless,

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Obedience
the law promises life to the one who does it — a verse Paul later presses hard (Rom 10:5; Gal 3:12); read here…

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Where the connections lead

04Related verses

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06About Leviticus

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Leviticus