Leviticus 18:3

King James Version 1611 (Original)

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 ordinances.

📖 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 quite break down their images.
• Lev 20:23 : 23 And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.
• Ezek 20:7-8 : 7 Then said I unto them, Cast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am the LORD 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 will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.
• Ezek 23:8 : 8 Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her.
• Deut 12:30-31 : 30 Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise. 31 Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.
• Ps 106:35 : 35 But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.
• Jer 10:2-3 : 2 Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. 3 For the customs of the people are vain: 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 conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
• Eph 5:7-9 : 7 Be not ye therefore partakers with them. 8 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light: 9 For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;) 10 Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. 11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
• 1 Pet 4:2-4 : 2 That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. 3 For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries: 4 Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:
• Deut 12:4 : 4 Ye shall not do so unto the LORD 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 before you: 25 And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants. 26 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you: 27 For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;) 28 That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you. 29 For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people. 30 Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the LORD your God.