Leviticus 18:5

In 11 translations

BSB

Keep My statutes and My judgments, for the man who does these things will live by them. I am the LORD.Cited in Romans 10:5 and Galatians 3:12; see also Ezekiel 20:11, 13, and 21.

KJV

Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.

WEB

You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances, which if a man does, he shall live in them. I am Yahweh.

ASV

Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and mine ordinances; which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am Jehovah.

LSV

And you have kept My statutes and My judgments which man does and lives in them; I [am] YHWH.

YLT

and ye have kept My statutes and My judgments which man doth and liveth in them; I [am] Jehovah.

DBY

And ye shall observe my statutes and my judgments, by which the man that doeth them shall live: I am Jehovah.

DRC

Keep my laws and my judgments, which if a man do, he shall live in them. I am the Lord.

GNV

Ye shall keepe therefore my statutes, and my iudgements, which if a man doe, he shall then liue in them: I am the Lord.

JPS

Ye shall therefore keep My statutes, and Mine ordinances, which if a man do, he shall live by them: I am the LORD.

LXXE

So ye shall keep all my ordinances, and all my judgments, and do them; which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the Lord your God.

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WLC

וּשְׁמַרְתֶּ֤ם אֶת־חֻקֹּתַי֙ וְאֶת־מִשְׁפָּטַ֔י אֲשֶׁ֨ר יַעֲשֶׂ֥ה אֹתָ֛ם הָאָדָ֖ם וָחַ֣י בָּהֶ֑ם אֲנִ֖י יְהוָֽה׃

LXX-Br

Καὶ φυλάξεσθε πάντα τὰ προστάγματά μου, καὶ πάντα τὰ κρίματά μου, καὶ ποιήσετε αὐτά· ἃ ποιήσας αὐτὰ ἄνθρωπος, ζήσεται ἐν αὐτοῖς· ἐγὼ Κύριος ὁ Θεὸς ὑμῶν.

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• Galatians 3:12The law, however, is not based on faith; on the contrary, “The man who does these things will live by them.”
• Ezekiel 20:11And I gave them My statutes and made known to them My ordinances—for the man who does these things will live by them.
• Romans 10:5For concerning the righteousness that is by the law, Moses writes: “The man who does these things will live by them.”
• Ezekiel 20:21But the children rebelled against Me. They did not walk in My statutes or carefully observe My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they profaned My Sabbaths. So I resolved to pour out…
• Ezekiel 20:13Yet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not follow My statutes and they rejected My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they utterly profaned My…
• Luke 10:28“You have answered correctly,” Jesus said. “Do this and you will live.”
• Exodus 6:6Therefore tell the Israelites: ‘I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians and deliver you from their bondage. I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of…
• Exodus 6:2God also told Moses, “I am the LORD.
• Malachi 3:6“Because I, the LORD, do not change, you descendants of Jacob have not been destroyed.
• Exodus 6:29He said to him, “I am the LORD; tell Pharaoh king of Egypt everything I say to you.”

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