Leviticus 18:5
If you keep my rules and do what I tell you, you will live. I am the Lord.
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4Do what I tell you and keep my rules. I am the Lord your God.
6Don't have sex with a close relative.
Cross References
Exodus 6:2God spoke to Moses and told him, “I am Yahweh!
Exodus 6:29he said to him, “I am the Lord. Tell Pharaoh, king of Egypt, all that I tell you.”
Deuteronomy 30:6The Lord your God will make you and your descendants his again, and you will love him with all your mind and with all your being, so that you'll live.
Nehemiah 9:29You warned them to come back to your Law, but they were arrogant. They ignored your commands, and sinned against your rules, which, as you previously said, ‘If people obey they will live by them.’ They obstinately turned their backs on you and refused to listen.
Ezekiel 20:13But the people of Israel rebelled against me in the desert, refusing to observe my laws and rejecting my regulations, even though they would have given them life. They violated my Sabbaths. So I warned them that I would punish them and wipe them out there in the desert.
Malachi 3:6For I am the Lord, I don't change, and you haven't stopped being descendants of Jacob.
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 →