Leviticus 19:37

19:36 Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt. weights: Heb. stones

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

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“‘You shall observe all my statutes, and all my ordinances, and do them. I am Yahweh.’”

Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I am the Lord.

Therefore shall you observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I am the LORD.

What does Leviticus 19:37 mean?

Leviticus 19:37 is a verse in the book of Leviticus, in the Old Testament. In the original Hebrew, key words include שָׁמַר (shâmar), חֻקָּה (chuqqâh), מִשְׁפָּט (mishpâṭ).

Hebrew interlinear

Therefore

shall

observeשָׁמַרshâmar/shaw-mar'/H8104properly, to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e. guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc.

all

statutes,חֻקָּהchuqqâh/khook-kaw'/H2708{an enactment; hence, an appointment (of time, space, quantity, labor or usage)}

and

all

judgments,מִשְׁפָּטmishpâṭ/mish-pawt'/H4941properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, individual or collective), including the act, the place, the suit, the crime, and the penalty; abstractly, justice, including a participant's right or privilege (statutory or customary), or even a style

and

doעָשָׂהʻâsâh/aw-saw'/H6213to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application

them:

the

LORD.יְהֹוָהYᵉhôvâh/yeh-ho-vaw'/H3068Jehovah, Jewish national name of God

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Verses like this

Other verses that share key original-language words with Leviticus 19:37.

Exodus 12:17

And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever.

Exodus 13:10

Thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in his season from year to year.

Genesis 18:19

For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.

Genesis 2:15

And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. the man: or, Adam

Genesis 2:18

And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. meet: Heb. as before him

Genesis 2:4

These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,

Genesis 26:5

Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.

Genesis 3:1

Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? Yea: Heb. Yea, because, etc.

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What does Leviticus 19:37 say?

Leviticus 19:37 (King James Version) reads: "Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I am the LORD."

Is Leviticus 19:37 in the Old or New Testament?

Leviticus 19:37 is in the Old Testament of the Bible, in the book of Leviticus.

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