Leviticus 26:15

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

and if ye shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhor mine ordinances, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְאִם־בְּחֻקֹּתַ֣י תִּמְאָ֔סוּ וְאִ֥ם אֶת־מִשְׁפָּטַ֖י תִּגְעַ֣ל נַפְשְׁכֶ֑ם לְבִלְתִּ֤י עֲשׂוֹת֙ אֶת־כָּל־מִצְוֺתַ֔י לְהַפְרְכֶ֖ם אֶת־בְּרִיתִֽי׃

Transliteration

And-if-in-ḥuqqōtay timʾāsû and-if ʾet-mišpāṭay tigʿal napšekem to-biltî ʿăśôt ʾet-all-miṣwōtay to-happrekem ʾet-berîtî

Grammar Details

• *ḥuqqōtay*: noun, feminine plural + 1st person singular suffix - my statutes
• *timʾāsû*: verb, qal imperfect, 2nd person masculine plural - you will reject
• *ʾet*: direct object marker
• *mišpāṭay*: noun, masculine plural + 1st person singular suffix - my judgments
• *tigʿal*: verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person feminine singular - it will abhor
• *napšekem*: noun, feminine singular + 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your soul
• *biltî*: preposition - not
• *ʿăśôt*: verb, qal infinitive construct - to do
• *miṣwōtay*: noun, feminine plural + 1st person singular suffix - my commandments
• *happrekem*: verb, hiphil infinitive construct + 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your breaking
• *berîtî*: noun, feminine singular + 1st person singular suffix - my covenant

Word Meanings

• *ḥuqqōtay*: my statutes/my decrees/my ordinances
• *timʾāsû*: reject/despise/refuse
• *mišpāṭay*: my judgments/my ordinances/my laws
• *tigʿal*: abhor/loathe/reject
• *napšekem*: your soul/your being/yourselves
• *biltî*: not/without/except
• *happrekem*: your breaking/your violating/your nullifying
• *berîtî*: my covenant/my agreement/my promise

Referenced Verses

• 2 Kgs 17:15 : 15 And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified unto them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and [went] after the nations that were round about them, concerning whom Jehovah had charged them that they should not do like them.
• Deut 31:16 : 16 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and play the harlot after the strange gods of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.
• 2 Sam 12:9-9 : 9 Wherefore hast thou despised the word of Jehovah, to do that which is evil in his sight? thou hast smitten Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. 10 Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thy house, because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.
• Gen 17:14 : 14 And the uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.
• Exod 19:5 : 5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be mine own possession from among all peoples: for all the earth is mine:
• Exod 24:7 : 7 And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that Jehovah hath spoken will we do, and be obedient.
• Lev 26:43 : 43 The land also shall be left by them, and shall enjoy its sabbaths, while it lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity; because, even because they rejected mine ordinances, and their soul abhorred my statutes.
• Num 15:31 : 31 Because he hath despised the word of Jehovah, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him.
• 2 Chr 36:16 : 16 but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of Jehovah arose against his people, till there was no remedy.
• Ps 50:17 : 17 Seeing thou hatest instruction, And castest my words behind thee?
• Prov 1:7 : 7 The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge; [But] the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
• Prov 1:30 : 30 They would none of my counsel; They despised all my reproof.
• Prov 5:12 : 12 And say, How have I hated instruction, And my heart despised reproof;
• Isa 24:5 : 5 The earth also is polluted under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant.
• Jer 6:19 : 19 Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it.
• Jer 11:10 : 10 They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear my words; and they are gone after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.
• Jer 31:32 : 32 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was a husband unto them, saith Jehovah.
• Ezek 16:59 : 59 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will also deal with thee as thou hast done, who hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant.
• Zech 7:11-13 : 11 But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear. 12 Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which Jehovah of hosts had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets: therefore there came great wrath from Jehovah of hosts. 13 And it is come to pass that, as he cried, and they would not hear, so they shall cry, and I will not hear, said Jehovah of hosts;
• Acts 13:41 : 41 Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish; For I work a work in your days, A work which ye shall in no wise believe, if one declare it unto you.
• Rom 8:7 : 7 because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can it be:
• 1 Thess 4:8 : 8 Therefore he that rejecteth, rejecteth not man, but God, who giveth his Holy Spirit unto you.
• Heb 8:9 : 9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers In the day that I took them by the hand to lead them forth out of the land of Egypt; For they continued not in my covenant, And I regarded them not, saith the Lord.