Leviticus 26:3
in Leviticus 26If you follow My statutes and carefully keep My commandments,
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;
KJV
If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;
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This verse in Leviticus 26
Commentary
5 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
As “the book of the covenant” Exo. 20:22–23:33 concludes with promises and warnings Exo 23:20-33, so does this collection of laws contained in the Book of Leviticus. But the former passage relates to the conquest of the land of promise, this one to the subsequent history of the nation. The longer similar passage in Deuteronomy Deut. 27–30 is marked by broader and deeper promises and denunciations having immediate reference not only to outward consequences, but to the spiritual death incurred by transgressing the divine will.
This site's exposition
If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments
on Leviticus 26:3-5
The blessings all stand on the condition set in verse 3, and the section then runs unbroken to verse 13. The first item promised is rain in due season, which is the one thing in a farming year no man can arrange for himself. Threshing runs into vintage and vintage into sowing, so the picture is a harvest too large to finish before the next one begins.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them. Both moral, ceremonial, and judicial, which had been delivered unto them, and now completely recorded in this and the preceding book; for what follow in the two next are chiefly repetitions of what are contained in these.
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
If ye walk in my statutes--In that covenant into which God graciously entered with the people of Israel, He promised to bestow upon them a variety of blessings, so long as they continued obedient to Him as their Almighty Ruler; and in their subsequent history that people found every promise amply fulfilled, in the enjoyment of plenty, peace, a populous country, and victory over all enemies.
If ye walk in my statutes - For the meaning of this and similar words used in the law, See the note on Lev 26:15.
The words behind it
8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| אִם־ | ʾim- | if | H518 → | 1069 times |
| בְּחֻקֹּתַ֖י | bechukotai | in statutes my | H2708 → | 104 times |
| תֵּלֵ֑כוּ | telekhu | you will walk | H1980 → | 1546 times |
| וְאֶת־ | veet | and <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| מִצְוֹתַ֣י | mitzvotai | commandments my | H4687 → | 181 times |
| תִּשְׁמְר֔וּ | tishmeru | you will keep | H8104 → | 468 times |
| וַעֲשִׂיתֶ֖ם | vaasitem | and you will do | H6213 → | 2628 times |
| אֹתָֽם׃ | ʾotam | <obj.> them | H853 → | 10935 times |
אִם־if
ʾim-H518 →1069 times
בְּחֻקֹּתַ֖יin statutes my
bechukotaiH2708 →104 times
תֵּלֵ֑כוּyou will walk
telekhuH1980 →1546 times
וְאֶת־and <obj.>
veetH853 →10935 times
מִצְוֹתַ֣יcommandments my
mitzvotaiH4687 →181 times
תִּשְׁמְר֔וּyou will keep
tishmeruH8104 →468 times
וַעֲשִׂיתֶ֖םand you will do
vaasitemH6213 →2628 times
אֹתָֽם׃<obj.> them
ʾotamH853 →10935 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
5 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
Isaiah 1:19If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the best of the land.
it leads to
- Deuteronomy 30:15–16
See, I have set before you today life and goodness, as well as death and disaster.
- Isaiah 3:10
Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their labor.
- Joel 2:26
You will have plenty to eat, until you are satisfied. You will praise the name of the LORD your God, who has worked wonders for you. My people will never again be put to…
- Hebrews 5:9
And having been made perfect, He became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey Him
- Isaiah 55:6–7
Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.
- Deuteronomy 30:15–16
Where this verse is studied
On this page
About Leviticus
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.