Leviticus 19:30
in Leviticus 19You must keep My Sabbaths and have reverence for My sanctuary. I am the LORD.
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ASV
Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am Jehovah.
KJV
Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.
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This verse in Leviticus 19
Commentary
5 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
Do not prostitute thy daughter
on Leviticus 19:29-30
The reason attached to verse 29 is corporate, that the land itself falls to whoredom and becomes full of wickedness, so the harm named reaches past the household to the country. Verse 30 returns to my sabbaths, which the chapter already commanded at verse 3, and adds reverence for the sanctuary. Naming the sabbath at both ends puts a frame around the commands about neighbours that sit between them.
The record, by era
The Reformation1 voice
Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD. Sabbatha mea custodite, et sanctuarium meum timete. Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
This would be a means to secure them both from the idolatries and superstitions of the heathen and from all immoralities in conversation. Sabbaths must be religiously observed, and not those times mentioned (
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The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary--This precept is frequently repeated along with the prohibition of idolatrous practices, and here it stands closely connected with the superstitions forbidden in the previous verses.
The words behind it
7 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| שַׁבְּתֹתַ֣י | shabetotai | sabbaths my | H7676 → | 110 times |
| תִּשְׁמֹ֔רוּ | tishmoru | you will keep | H8104 → | 468 times |
| וּמִקְדָּשִׁ֖י | umikdashi | and sanctuary my | H4720 → | 75 times |
| תִּירָ֑אוּ | tirau | you will fear | H3372 → | 315 times |
| אֲנִ֖י | ʾani | I | H589 → | 874 times |
| יְהוָֽה׃ | yahweh | [am] Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
שַׁבְּתֹתַ֣יsabbaths my
shabetotaiH7676 →110 times
תִּשְׁמֹ֔רוּyou will keep
tishmoruH8104 →468 times
וּמִקְדָּשִׁ֖יand sanctuary my
umikdashiH4720 →75 times
תִּירָ֑אוּyou will fear
tirauH3372 →315 times
אֲנִ֖יI
ʾaniH589 →874 times
יְהוָֽה׃[am] Yahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Matthew 21:13And He declared to them, “It is written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer.’ But you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’”
it leads to
- Jeremiah 7:11
Has this house, which bears My Name, become a den of robbers in your sight? Yes, I too have seen it, declares the LORD.
- Isaiah 56:7
I will bring them to My holy mountain and make them joyful in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be accepted on My altar, for My house will be called…
- Luke 19:46
He declared to them, “It is written: ‘My house will be a house of prayer.’ But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’”
- Mark 11:17
Then Jesus began to teach them, and He declared, “Is it not written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it ‘a den of…
- Psalms 93:5
Your testimonies are fully confirmed; holiness adorns Your house, O LORD, for all the days to come.
- Jeremiah 7:11
Through
Ecclesiastes 5:1Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Draw near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong.
it leads to
- Hebrews 12:28–29
Therefore, since we are receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us be filled with gratitude, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- James 1:19
My beloved brothers, understand this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger,
- Hebrews 12:28–29
Through
Leviticus 19:3Each of you must respect his mother and father, and you must keep My Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.
it leads to
- Exodus 20:12
Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
- Exodus 20:12
Where this verse is studied
About Leviticus
This page draws on Andrew Bonar, A Commentary on Leviticus; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Calvin, Commentaries; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.