Leviticus 22:31
in Leviticus 22You are to keep My commandments and practice them. I am the LORD.
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ASV
Therefore shall ye keep my commandments, and do them: I am Jehovah.
KJV
Therefore shall ye keep my commandments, and do them: I am the Lord.
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This verse in Leviticus 22
Commentary
3 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
You are to keep My commandments and practice them
on Leviticus 22:31-33
The chapter closes on "I am the LORD", which stands in place of a reason. The verb behind "acknowledged as holy" in verse 32 is the one Moses used to Aaron over Nadab and Abihu at 10:3. Verse 33 grounds it in the God who brought Israel out of Egypt.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
Therefore shall ye keep my commandments, and do them,.... Both priests and people, even all the commandments delivered at this time, as well as all others; these they were to observe and take notice of, and keep them in memory, and put them in practice: I am the Lord; See Gill on Lev 22:30.
God will be a loser in his glory by no man at last; but sooner or later will recover his right, either in the repentance of sinners or in their ruin.
The words behind it
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וּשְׁמַרְתֶּם֙ | ushemartem | and you will keep | H8104 → | 468 times |
| מִצְוֹתַ֔י | mitzvotai | commandments my | H4687 → | 181 times |
| וַעֲשִׂיתֶ֖ם | vaasitem | and you will do | H6213 → | 2628 times |
| אֹתָ֑ם | ʾotam | <obj.> them | H853 → | 10935 times |
| אֲנִ֖י | ʾani | I | H589 → | 874 times |
| יְהוָֽה׃ | yahweh | [am] Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
וּשְׁמַרְתֶּם֙and you will keep
ushemartemH8104 →468 times
מִצְוֹתַ֔יcommandments my
mitzvotaiH4687 →181 times
וַעֲשִׂיתֶ֖םand you will do
vaasitemH6213 →2628 times
אֹתָ֑ם<obj.> them
ʾotamH853 →10935 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
Deuteronomy 4:40Keep His statutes and commandments, which I am giving you today, so that you and your children after you may prosper, and that you may live long in the land that the LORD your…
it leads to
- Deuteronomy 6:3
Hear, O Israel, and be careful to observe them, so that you may prosper and multiply greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers,…
- Ephesians 6:3
“that it may go well with you and that you may have a long life on the earth.”
- Deuteronomy 5:16
Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that your days may be long and that it may go well with you in the land that the…
- Deuteronomy 12:25
Do not eat it, so that it may go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is right in the eyes of the LORD.
- Deuteronomy 12:28
Be careful to obey all these things I command you, so that it may always go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is good and right…
- Deuteronomy 6:3
Through
Numbers 15:40Then you will remember and obey all My commandments, and you will be holy to your God.
it leads to
- Romans 12:1
Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:7
For God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness.
- Romans 12:1
Through
Leviticus 19:37You must keep all My statutes and all My ordinances and follow them. I am the LORD.”
it leads to
- Deuteronomy 8:1
You must carefully follow every commandment I am giving you today, so that you may live and multiply, and enter and possess the land that the LORD swore to give your fathers.
- Deuteronomy 8:1
Where this verse is studied
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About Leviticus
This page draws on Andrew Bonar, A Commentary on Leviticus; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.