Leviticus 18:5
Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my ordinances, which if a man does, he shall live in them. I am LORD.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
4Ye shall do my ordinances, and ye shall keep my statutes, to walk therein. I am LORD your God.
6None of you shall approach to any who are near of kin to him, to uncover nakedness. I am LORD.
Cross References
Exodus 6:2And God spoke to Moses, and said to him, I am LORD.
Exodus 6:29that LORD spoke to Moses, saying, I am LORD. Speak thou to Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I speak to thee.
Deuteronomy 30:6And LORD thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love LORD thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, that thou may live.
Nehemiah 9:29and testified against them, that thou might bring them again to thy law. Yet they dealt proudly, and did not hearken to thy commandments, but sinned against thine ordinances (which if a man does, he shall live in them), and withdre
Ezekiel 20:13But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They did not walk in my statutes, and they rejected my ordinances, which if a man keeps, he shall live in them. And they greatly profaned my Sabbaths. Then I said I wou
Malachi 3:6For I, LORD, do not change. Therefore ye, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed.
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 18:2-6
Cautions against Idolatrous Practices. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, I am the Lord your God. 3 After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances. 4 Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the Lord your God. 5 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my… Read the whole commentary →