Bible Strands
Leviticus 19:37
You must keep all My statutes and all My ordinances and follow them. I am the LORD.”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Yahweh speaks to the Israelites through Moses, concluding a block of ethical and ritual instructions. The declaration immediately follows commands to use honest commercial scales and weights in Leviticus 19:36.
The words — שְׁמַרְתֶּם (she.mar.Tem) translates literally as "you will keep," while עֲשִׂיתֶם ('a.si.Tem) means "you will do." These verbs require active preservation and execution of the statutes and ordinances just listed.
The thread — The command to keep statutes and practice judgments appears in Leviticus 18:4, which ties obedience to walking in them. Deuteronomy 8:1 repeats the requirement to carefully follow every commandment to secure life and possession of the land.
Why it lands — The text demands unqualified compliance with every statute and ordinance without exception. It anchors the obligation in the speaker's self-identification as Yahweh, the one who delivered Israel from Egypt.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I am the Lord.
Cross-references
- Deuteronomy 8:1 You must carefully follow every commandment I am giving you today, so that you may live and multiply, and enter and possess the land that the LORD swore to give your fathers.
- Leviticus 18:4 You are to practice My judgments and keep My statutes by walking in them. I am the LORD your God.
- Deuteronomy 5:1 Then Moses summoned all Israel and said to them: Hear, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances that I declare in your hearing this day. Learn them and observe them carefully.
- Psalms 119:34 Give me understanding that I may obey Your law, and follow it with all my heart.
- 1 John 3:22 and we will receive from Him whatever we ask, because we keep His commandments and do what is pleasing in His sight.
- Deuteronomy 4:1 Hear now, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances I am teaching you to follow, so that you may live and may enter and take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you.
- Deuteronomy 4:5 See, I have taught you statutes and ordinances just as the LORD my God has commanded me, so that you may follow them in the land that you are about to enter and possess.
- Deuteronomy 6:1 These are the commandments and statutes and ordinances that the LORD your God has instructed me to teach you to follow in the land that you are about to enter and possess,
- Psalms 119:4 You have ordained Your precepts, that we should keep them diligently.