Leviticus 26:15

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

and if you reject my statutes and if your soul loathes my judgments so that you do not carry out all my commandments and thus 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

Other Translations

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:

• KJV1611 – Modern English

  And if you shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhors my judgments, so that you will not do all my commandments, but that you break my covenant:

• King James Version 1611 (Original)

  And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  and if ye shall reject{H3988} my statutes,{H2708} and if your soul{H5315} abhor{H1602} mine ordinances,{H4941} so that ye will not do{H6213} all my commandments,{H4687} but break{H6565} my covenant;{H1285}

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  And if ye shall despise{H3988}{(H8799)} my statutes{H2708}, or if your soul{H5315} abhor{H1602}{(H8799)} my judgments{H4941}, so that ye will not do{H6213}{(H8800)} all my commandments{H4687}, but that ye break{H6565}{(H8687)} my covenant{H1285}:

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  or yf ye shall despyse myne ordinaunces ether yf youre soules refuse my lawes, so that ye wil not do all my commaundnentes, but shall breake myne appoyntment:

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  and wyl despyse my statutes, and yf youre soules refuse my lawes, yt ye wyll not do all my commaundementes, & shal let my couenaunt stonde,

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  And if ye shall despise mine ordinances, either if your soule abhorre my lawes, so that yee will not do all my commandements, but breake my couenant,

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  And yf ye shall dispise myne ordinaunces, either if your soule abhorre my lawes, so that ye wyll not do all my commaundementes, but breake my couenaunt,

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, [but] that ye break my covenant:

• Webster's Bible (1833)

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

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  and if at My statutes ye kick, and if My judgments your soul loathe, so as not to do all My commands -- to your breaking My covenant --

• American Standard Version (1901)

  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;

• American Standard Version (1901)

  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;

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  And if you go against my rules and if you have hate in your souls for my decisions and you do not do all my orders, but go against my agreement;

• World English Bible (2000)

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

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  if you reject my statutes and abhor my regulations so that you do not keep all my commandments and you break my covenant–

Referenced Verses

• 2 Kgs 17:15 : 15 They despised His statutes, His covenant that He made with their fathers, and His warnings He gave them. They followed worthless idols and became worthless themselves. They imitated the nations around them, though the Lord had commanded them not to do so.
• Deut 31:16 : 16 The LORD said to Moses, 'Behold, you are going to rest with your ancestors, and this people will rise up and prostitute themselves to the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will forsake me and break the covenant I made with them.'
• 2 Sam 12:9-9 : 9 Why did you despise the word of the Lord by doing what is evil in His eyes? You struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and took his wife to be your own. You killed him with the sword of the Ammonites! 10 Now, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house because you despised me and took the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.'
• Gen 17:14 : 14 But any uncircumcised male who has not been circumcised in the flesh will be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.
• Exod 19:5 : 5 Now, if you will carefully listen to My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations, for the whole earth is Mine.
• Exod 24:7 : 7 Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people. They said, "We will do everything the LORD has said; we will obey."
• Lev 26:43 : 43 For the land will be abandoned by them and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them; they will accept their punishment for their iniquity, because they rejected my judgments and their soul abhorred my statutes.
• Num 15:31 : 31 Because they have despised the word of the Lord and broken His commandment, they must be cut off completely. Their guilt remains on them.
• 2 Chr 36:16 : 16 But they mocked the messengers of God, despised His words, and scoffed at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD rose against His people beyond remedy.
• Ps 50:17 : 17 For you hate discipline, and you cast my words behind you.
• Prov 1:7 : 7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.
• Prov 1:30 : 30 They would have none of my counsel and despised all my correction.
• Prov 5:12 : 12 You will say, 'How I hated discipline, and my heart despised correction!'
• Isa 24:5 : 5 The earth is defiled by its inhabitants, for they have transgressed laws, violated statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant.
• Jer 6:19 : 19 Hear, O earth! I am bringing disaster upon this people, the fruit of their schemes, because they have not listened to My words and have rejected My law.
• Jer 11:10 : 10 They have turned back to the sins of their ancestors, who refused to listen to my words. They have followed other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have violated my covenant, which I made with their ancestors.
• Jer 31:32 : 32 It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant they broke, though I was a husband to them, declares the LORD.
• Ezek 16:59 : 59 For this is what the Lord GOD says: I will deal with you as you have done, since you despised the oath by breaking the covenant.
• Zech 7:11-13 : 11 But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder. They stopped their ears so they would not hear. 12 They made their hearts as hard as flint, refusing to hear the law and the words that the LORD of Hosts had sent by His Spirit through the earlier prophets. Therefore, great wrath came from the LORD of Hosts. 13 'Just as I called, and they did not listen, so when they call, I will not listen,' says the LORD of Hosts.
• Acts 13:41 : 41 'Look, you scoffers! Be amazed and perish, for I am doing a work in your days, a work you will never believe, even if someone tells you about it.'
• Rom 8:7 : 7 Because the mindset of the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so.
• 1 Thess 4:8 : 8 Therefore, whoever disregards this does not reject man but God, who also gives His Holy Spirit to you.
• Heb 8:9 : 9 It will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors on the day I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, because they did not remain faithful to my covenant, and so I turned away from them, declares the Lord.