Leviticus 25:18

World English Bible (2000)

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

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַעֲשִׂיתֶם֙ אֶת־חֻקֹּתַ֔י וְאֶת־מִשְׁפָּטַ֥י תִּשְׁמְר֖וּ וַעֲשִׂיתֶ֣ם אֹתָ֑ם וִֽישַׁבְתֶּ֥ם עַל־הָאָ֖רֶץ לָבֶֽטַח׃

Transliteration

And wə-ʿaśîtem [you-shall-do] ʾet-ḥuqqōtay [my-statutes] and wə-ʾet-mišpāṭay [my-judgments] tišmərû [you-shall-keep] and wə-ʿaśîtem [you-shall-do] ʾōtām [them] and wîšabtem [you-shall-dwell] upon-hā-ʾāreṣ [the-land] lābeṭaḥ [securely]

Grammar Details

• *wə-ʿaśîtem*: conjunction + verb, Qal perfect, 2nd person masculine plural - and you shall do/perform
• *ʾet*: direct object marker
• *ḥuqqōtay*: noun, feminine plural construct with 1st person singular suffix - my statutes/decrees
• *wə-ʾet*: conjunction + direct object marker
• *mišpāṭay*: noun, masculine plural construct with 1st person singular suffix - my judgments/ordinances
• *tišmərû*: verb, Qal imperfect, 2nd person masculine plural - you shall keep/observe
• *ʾōtām*: direct object marker with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - them
• *wîšabtem*: conjunction + verb, Qal perfect, 2nd person masculine plural - and you shall dwell/sit/remain
• *ʿal*: preposition - upon/on
• *hā-ʾāreṣ*: definite article + noun, feminine singular - the land/earth
• *lābeṭaḥ*: preposition + noun, masculine singular - in security/safety

Word Meanings

• *ʿaśîtem*: do/perform/accomplish/make
• *ḥuqqōtay*: statutes/decrees/ordinances/prescribed limits
• *mišpāṭay*: judgments/ordinances/legal decisions
• *tišmərû*: keep/guard/observe/preserve
• *yāšab*: dwell/sit/remain/inhabit
• *ʾāreṣ*: land/earth/ground/territory
• *beṭaḥ*: security/safety/confidence

Referenced Verses

• Deut 12:10 : 10 But when you go over the Jordan, and dwell in the land which Yahweh your God causes you to inherit, and he gives you rest from all your enemies around you, so that you dwell in safety;
• Jer 23:6 : 6 In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely; and this is his name by which he shall be called: Yahweh our righteousness.
• Prov 1:33 : 33 But whoever listens to me will dwell securely, and will be at ease, without fear of harm."
• Ps 4:8 : 8 In peace I will both lay myself down and sleep, for you, Yahweh alone, make me live in safety. For the Chief Musician, with the flutes. A Psalm by David.
• Ps 103:18 : 18 to those who keep his covenant, to those who remember to obey his precepts.
• Lev 19:37 : 37 "'You shall observe all my statutes, and all my ordinances, and do them. I am Yahweh.'"
• Lev 26:3-9 : 3 "'If you walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them; 4 then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. 5 Your threshing shall reach to the vintage, and the vintage shall reach to the sowing time; and you shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely. 6 "'I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and no one will make you afraid; and I will remove evil animals out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land. 7 You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword. 8 Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand; and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword. 9 "'I will have respect for you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you. 10 You shall eat old store long kept, and you shall move out the old because of the new. 11 I will set my tent among you: and my soul won't abhor you. 12 I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you will be my people.
• Deut 28:1-9 : 1 It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to the voice of Yahweh your God, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you this day, that Yahweh your God will set you on high above all the nations of the earth: 2 and all these blessings shall come on you, and overtake you, if you shall listen to the voice of Yahweh your God. 3 You shall be blessed in the city, and you shall be blessed in the field. 4 You shall be blessed in the fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the fruit of your animals, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock. 5 Your basket and your kneading trough shall be blessed. 6 You shall be blessed when you come in, and you shall be blessed when you go out. 7 Yahweh will cause your enemies who rise up against you to be struck before you. They will come out against you one way, and will flee before you seven ways. 8 Yahweh will command the blessing on you in your barns, and in all that you put your hand to; and he will bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you. 9 Yahweh will establish you for a holy people to himself, as he has sworn to you; if you shall keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, and walk in his ways. 10 All the peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of Yahweh; and they shall be afraid of you. 11 Yahweh will make you plenteous for good, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give you. 12 Yahweh will open to you his good treasure in the sky, to give the rain of your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand: and you shall lend to many nations, and you shall not borrow. 13 Yahweh will make you the head, and not the tail; and you shall be above only, and you shall not be beneath; if you shall listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, which I command you this day, to observe and to do [them], 14 and shall not turn aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
• Deut 33:12 : 12 Of Benjamin he said, "The beloved of Yahweh shall dwell in safety by him. He covers him all the day long. He dwells between his shoulders."
• Deut 33:28 : 28 Israel dwells in safety; the fountain of Jacob alone, In a land of grain and new wine. Yes, his heavens drop down dew.
• Jer 7:3-7 : 3 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place. 4 Don't trust in lying words, saying, The temple of Yahweh, the temple of Yahweh, the temple of Yahweh, are these. 5 For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor; 6 if you don't oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don't shed innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt: 7 then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even forevermore.
• Jer 25:5 : 5 saying, Return now everyone from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that Yahweh has given to you and to your fathers, from of old and even forevermore;
• Jer 33:16 : 16 In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely; and this is [the name] by which she shall be called: Yahweh our righteousness.
• Ezek 33:24-26 : 24 Son of man, they who inhabit those waste places in the land of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we are many; the land is given us for inheritance. 25 Therefore tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood: and shall you possess the land? 26 You stand on your sword, you work abomination, and every one of you defiles his neighbor's wife: and shall you possess the land?
• Ezek 33:29 : 29 Then shall they know that I am Yahweh, when I have made the land a desolation and an astonishment, because of all their abominations which they have committed.
• Ezek 34:25-28 : 25 I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause evil animals to cease out of the land; and they shall dwell securely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods. 26 I will make them and the places around my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in its season; there shall be showers of blessing. 27 The tree of the field shall yield its fruit, and the earth shall yield its increase, and they shall be secure in their land; and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have broken the bars of their yoke, and have delivered them out of the hand of those who made slaves of them. 28 They shall no more be a prey to the nations, neither shall the animals of the earth devour them; but they shall dwell securely, and none shall make them afraid.
• Ezek 36:24-28 : 24 For I will take you from among the nations, and gather you out of all the countries, and will bring you into your own land. 25 I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. 26 I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. 27 I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and you shall keep my ordinances, and do them. 28 You shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and you shall be my people, and I will be your God.