Leviticus 25:18
New International Version
“’Follow my decrees and be careful to obey my laws, and you will live safely in the land.

New Living Translation
“If you want to live securely in the land, follow my decrees and obey my regulations.

English Standard Version
“Therefore you shall do my statutes and keep my rules and perform them, and then you will dwell in the land securely.

Berean Standard Bible
You are to keep My statutes and carefully observe My judgments, so that you may dwell securely in the land.

King James Bible
Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety.

New King James Version
‘So you shall observe My statutes and keep My judgments, and perform them; and you will dwell in the land in safety.

New American Standard Bible
‘You shall therefore follow My statutes and keep My judgments so as to carry them out, so that you may live securely on the land.

NASB 1995
‘You shall thus observe My statutes and keep My judgments, so as to carry them out, that you may live securely on the land.

NASB 1977
‘You shall thus observe My statutes, and keep My judgments, so as to carry them out, that you may live securely on the land.

Legacy Standard Bible
‘You shall thus observe My statutes and keep My judgments, so as to do them, that you may live securely on the land.

Amplified Bible
‘Therefore you shall carry out My statutes and keep My ordinances and do them, so that you may live securely on the land.

Christian Standard Bible
“You are to keep my statutes and ordinances and carefully observe them, so that you may live securely in the land.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You are to keep My statutes and ordinances and carefully observe them, so that you may live securely in the land.

American Standard Version
Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep mine ordinances and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Do my commands and keep my judgments and do them, and dwell in the land in quietness.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And ye shall keep all my ordinances, and all my judgments; and do ye observe them, and ye shall keep them, and dwell securely in the land.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Do my precepts, and keep my judgments, and fulfil them: that you may dwell in the land without any fear,

English Revised Version
Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"Obey my laws, and carefully follow my rules. Then you will live securely in the land.

Good News Translation
Obey all the LORD's laws and commands, so that you may live in safety in the land.

International Standard Version
"Observe my statutes and keep my ordinances. Do them so that you may live securely in the land.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Wherefore ye shall do My statutes, and keep Mine ordinances and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety.

Literal Standard Version
And you have done My statutes, and you keep My judgments, and have done them, and you have dwelt on the land confidently,

Majority Standard Bible
You are to keep My statutes and carefully observe My judgments, so that you may dwell securely in the land.

New American Bible
Observe my statutes and be careful to keep my ordinances, so that you will dwell securely in the land.

NET Bible
You must obey my statutes and my regulations; you must be sure to keep them so that you may live securely in the land.

New Revised Standard Version
You shall observe my statutes and faithfully keep my ordinances, so that you may live on the land securely.

New Heart English Bible
"'Therefore you shall do my statutes, and keep my ordinances and do them; and you shall dwell in the land in safety.

Webster's Bible Translation
Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety.

World English Bible
“‘Therefore you shall do my statutes, and keep my ordinances and do them; and you shall dwell in the land in safety.

Young's Literal Translation
'And ye have done My statutes, and My judgments ye keep, and have done them, and ye have dwelt on the land confidently,

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Context
The Blessing of Obedience
18You are to keep My statutes and carefully observe My judgments, so that you may dwell securely in the land. 19Then the land will yield its fruit, so that you can eat your fill and dwell in safety in the land.…

Cross References
Leviticus 25:19
Then the land will yield its fruit, so that you can eat your fill and dwell in safety in the land.

Leviticus 26:5
Your threshing will continue until the grape harvest, and the grape harvest will continue until sowing time; you will have your fill of food to eat and will dwell securely in your land.

Deuteronomy 12:10
When you cross the Jordan and live in the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, and He gives you rest from all the enemies around you and you dwell securely,

Psalm 4:8
I will lie down and sleep in peace, for You alone, O LORD, make me dwell in safety.

Jeremiah 23:6
In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is His name by which He will be called: The LORD Our Righteousness.


Treasury of Scripture

Why you shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and you shall dwell in the land in safety.

Wherefore

Leviticus 19:37
Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I am the LORD.

Psalm 103:18
To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them.

and ye

Leviticus 26:3-12
If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them; …

Deuteronomy 12:10
But when ye go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which the LORD your God giveth you to inherit, and when he giveth you rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety;

Deuteronomy 28:1-14
And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: …

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Leviticus 25
1. the Sabbath of the seventh year
8. The jubilee in the fiftieth year
14. Of oppression
18. A blessing of obedience
23. The redemption of land
29. Of houses
35. Compassion to the poor
39. The usage of bondmen
47. The redemption of servants














(18) Wherefore ye shall do my statutes.--Better, And ye shall do . . . that is, the above named statutes and ordinances respecting the sabbatical year and the jubile, which required great sacrifices.

Ye shall dwell in the land in safety.--As God is Israel's strong tower and wall of defence, it is by keeping His commandments that the Israelites will enjoy the security which other nations endeavour to obtain by great labour and mighty armies.

And the land . . . her fruit.--He, moreover, who has given Israel these statutes, also controls the operations of nature. Hence, though the observance of His laws would necessitate the abstention from cultivating the soil, the Lord will cause the land to yield an abundant harvest which will richly supply all their wants, and they will safely and quietly dwell therein without being compelled to make raids upon their neighbours for food, or surrender themselves to their enemies for want of provision (1 Maccabees 6:49; 1 Maccabees 6:53; Josephus, Antt. xiv. 16, ? 2; xv. :1, ? 2).

Verses 18-22. - "Not only the year of jubilee, but the sabbatical year also, commenced in the autumn, when the farmers first began to sow for the coming year; so that the sowing was suspended from the autumn of the sixth year till the autumn of the seventh, and even till the autumn of the eighth whenever the jubilee year came round, in which case both sowing and reaping were omitted for two years in succession, and consequently the produce of the sixth year, which was harvested in the seventh month of that year, must have sufficed for three years, not merely till the sowing in the autumn of the eighth or fiftieth year, but till the harvest of the ninth or fifty-first year, as the Talmud and rabbins of every age have understood the law" (Keil). The question, What shall we eat? would present itself with double force when the sabbatical and the jubilee years came together. It and the answer to it therefore properly follow on the institution of the jubilee, instead of preceding it, as Ewald, Knobcl, and others demand that it should do.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
You are to keep
וַעֲשִׂיתֶם֙ (wa·‘ă·śî·ṯem)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 6213: To do, make

My statutes
חֻקֹּתַ֔י (ḥuq·qō·ṯay)
Noun - feminine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's 2708: Something prescribed, an enactment, statute

and
וְאֶת־ (wə·’eṯ-)
Conjunctive waw | Direct object marker
Strong's 853: Untranslatable mark of the accusative case

carefully
תִּשְׁמְר֖וּ (tiš·mə·rū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 8104: To hedge about, guard, to protect, attend to

observe
וַעֲשִׂיתֶ֣ם (wa·‘ă·śî·ṯem)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 6213: To do, make

My judgments,
מִשְׁפָּטַ֥י (miš·pā·ṭay)
Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's 4941: A verdict, a sentence, formal decree, divine law, penalty, justice, privilege, style

so that you may dwell
וִֽישַׁבְתֶּ֥ם (wî·šaḇ·tem)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 3427: To sit down, to dwell, to remain, to settle, to marry

securely
לָבֶֽטַח׃ (lā·ḇe·ṭaḥ)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 983: A place of refuge, safety, safely

in
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

the land.
הָאָ֖רֶץ (hā·’ā·reṣ)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 776: Earth, land


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