- Bible
- Leviticus
- Chapter 18
- Verse 5
Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.
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Gill's Exposition
Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments,.... The same as before; these they were to keep in their minds and memories, and to observe them and do them:
which if a man do he shall live…
Barnes' Notes
If a man keeps the “statutes” (i. e. the ordinances of Lev 18:4) and “judgments” of the divine law, he shall not be “cut off from his people” (compare Lev 18:29), he shall gain true life, the life…
After divers ceremonial institutions, God here returns to the enforcement of moral precepts. The former are still of use to us as types, the latter still binding as laws. We have here, 1. The sacred…
Cambridge Bible
I am the Lord For the significance of this often repeated expression, see pp. xlviii f.
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