Leviticus 18:3

American Standard Version (1901)

After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do; neither shall ye walk in their statutes.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כְּמַעֲשֵׂ֧ה אֶֽרֶץ־מִצְרַ֛יִם אֲשֶׁ֥ר יְשַׁבְתֶּם־בָּ֖הּ לֹ֣א תַעֲשׂ֑וּ וּכְמַעֲשֵׂ֣ה אֶֽרֶץ־כְּנַ֡עַן אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֲנִי֩ מֵבִ֨יא אֶתְכֶ֥ם שָׁ֙מָּה֙ לֹ֣א תַעֲשׂ֔וּ וּבְחֻקֹּתֵיהֶ֖ם לֹ֥א תֵלֵֽכוּ׃

Transliteration

Like kəmaʿăśēh ʾerets-Mitsrayim ʾăšer yəšabtem-bāh lōʾ taʿăśû and like ûkəmaʿăśēh ʾerets-Kənaʿan ʾăšer ʾănî mēbîʾ ʾetkem šāmmāh lōʾ taʿăśû and in ûbəḥuqqōtêhem lōʾ tēlēkû

Grammar Details

• *kəmaʿăśēh*: preposition + noun, masculine singular construct - like the practice/doings of
• *ʾerets*: noun, feminine singular construct - land of
• *Mitsrayim*: proper noun - Egypt
• *ʾăšer*: relative particle - which/that
• *yəšabtem*: Qal perfect, 2nd masculine plural - you dwelled/lived
• *bāh*: preposition + 3rd feminine singular suffix - in it
• *lōʾ*: negative particle - not
• *taʿăśû*: Qal imperfect, 2nd masculine plural - you shall do
• *ûkəmaʿăśēh*: waw conjunction + preposition + noun, masculine singular construct - and like the practice of
• *Kənaʿan*: proper noun - Canaan
• *mēbîʾ*: Hiphil participle, masculine singular - bringing
• *ʾetkem*: direct object marker + 2nd masculine plural suffix - you
• *šāmmāh*: adverb - there/thither
• *ûbəḥuqqōtêhem*: waw conjunction + preposition + noun, feminine plural construct + 3rd masculine plural suffix - and in their statutes
• *tēlēkû*: Qal imperfect, 2nd masculine plural - you shall walk/follow

Word Meanings

• *maʿăśēh*: practice/deed/work/custom
• *yəšabtem*: you dwelled/you lived/you resided
• *taʿăśû*: you shall do/you shall practice/you shall perform
• *mēbîʾ*: bringing/leading/causing to enter
• *ḥuqqōt*: statutes/ordinances/customs/practices
• *tēlēkû*: you shall walk/you shall follow/you shall conduct yourselves

Referenced Verses

• Exod 23:24 : 24 Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works; but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and break in pieces their pillars.
• Lev 20:23 : 23 And ye shall not walk in the customs of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they did all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.
• Ezek 20:7-8 : 7 And I said unto them, Cast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am Jehovah your God. 8 But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me; they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt. Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.
• Ezek 23:8 : 8 Neither hath she left her whoredoms since [the days of] Egypt; for in her youth they lay with her, and they handled the bosom of her virginity; and they poured out their whoredom upon her. [
• Deut 12:30-31 : 30 take heed to thyself that thou be not ensnared to follow them, after that they are destroyed from before thee; and that thou inquire not after their gods, saying, How do these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise. 31 Thou shalt not do so unto Jehovah thy God: for every abomination to Jehovah, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters do they burn in the fire to their gods.
• Ps 106:35 : 35 But mingled themselves with the nations, And learned their works,
• Jer 10:2-3 : 2 thus saith Jehovah, Learn not the way of the nations, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the nations are dismayed at them. 3 For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.
• Rom 12:2 : 2 And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
• Eph 5:7-9 : 7 Be not ye therefore partakers with them; 8 For ye were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord: walk as children of light 9 (for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth), 10 proving what is well-pleasing unto the Lord; 11 and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them;
• 1 Pet 4:2-4 : 2 that ye no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. 3 For the time past may suffice to have wrought the desire of the Gentiles, and to have walked in lasciviousness, lusts, winebibbings, revellings, carousings, and abominable idolatries: 4 wherein they think it strange that ye run not with [them] into the same excess of riot, speaking evil of [you] :
• Deut 12:4 : 4 Ye shall not do so unto Jehovah your God.
• Lev 18:24-30 : 24 Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out from before you; 25 And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land vomiteth out her inhabitants. 26 Ye therefore shall keep my statutes and mine ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the home-born, nor the stranger that sojourneth among you; 27 (for all these abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the land is defiled); 28 that the land vomit not you out also, when ye defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you. 29 For whosoever shall do any of these abominations, even the souls that do them shall be cut off from among their people. 30 Therefore shall ye keep my charge, that ye practise not any of these abominable customs, which were practised before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am Jehovah your God.