Leviticus - 25:18



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

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Explanation and meaning of Leviticus 25:18.

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Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety.
Do my precepts, and keep my judgments, and fulfil them: that you may dwell in the land without any fear,
And ye shall do my statutes, and observe mine ordinances and do them: thus shall ye dwell in your land securely.
'And ye have done My statutes, and My judgments ye keep, and have done them, and ye have dwelt on the land confidently,
Why you shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and you shall dwell in the land in safety.
So keep my rules and my decisions and do them, and you will be safe in your land.
Accomplish my precepts, and observe my judgments, and complete them, so that you may be able to live in the land without any fear,

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

In safety - i. e., secure from famine, Leviticus 26:5; Deuteronomy 12:10.

Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them,.... These and all others he enjoined; by which tenure, even obedience to all his commands, moral, ritual, and judicial, they were to hold the land of Canaan, and their possessions in it, which is intended in the next clause:
and ye shall dwell in the land in safety; without any fear of enemies, or of the neighbouring nations about them seizing upon them, and distressing them; and Jarchi observes, that it was for transgressing the sabbatical year that Israel was carried captive, which he thinks is intimated in 2-Chronicles 36:21; and that the seventy years' captivity in Babylon were for the seventy sabbatical years that had been neglected.

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