Leviticus 26:3

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

`If in My statutes ye walk, and My commands ye keep, and have done them,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אִם־בְּחֻקֹּתַ֖י תֵּלֵ֑כוּ וְאֶת־מִצְוֺתַ֣י תִּשְׁמְר֔וּ וַעֲשִׂיתֶ֖ם אֹתָֽם׃

Transliteration

If-in-ḥuqqōtay tēlēkû and-ʾet-miṣwōtay tišmerû and-ʿăśîtem ʾōtām

Grammar Details

• *ḥuqqōtay*: noun, feminine plural + 1st person singular suffix - my statutes
• *tēlēkû*: verb, qal imperfect, 2nd person masculine plural - you shall walk
• *ʾet*: direct object marker
• *miṣwōtay*: noun, feminine plural + 1st person singular suffix - my commandments
• *tišmerû*: verb, qal imperfect, 2nd person masculine plural - you shall keep/observe
• *ʿăśîtem*: verb, qal perfect, 2nd person masculine plural with waw consecutive - and you shall do
• *ʾōtām*: direct object marker + 3rd person masculine plural suffix - them

Word Meanings

• *ḥuqqōtay*: my statutes/my decrees/my ordinances
• *tēlēkû*: walk/live/conduct yourselves
• *tišmerû*: keep/observe/guard

Referenced Verses

• Deut 28:1-9 : 1 `And it hath been, if thou dost hearken diligently to the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe to do all His commands which I am commanding thee to-day, that Jehovah thy God hath made thee uppermost above all the nations of the earth, 2 and all these blessings have come upon thee, and overtaken thee, because thou dost hearken to the voice of Jehovah thy God: 3 `Blessed `art' thou in the city, and blessed `art' thou in the field. 4 `Blessed `is' the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, increase of thine oxen, and wealth of thy flock. 5 `Blessed `is' thy basket and thy kneading-trough. 6 `Blessed `art' thou in thy coming in, and blessed `art' thou in thy going out. 7 `Jehovah giveth thine enemies, who are rising up against thee -- smitten before thy face; in one way they come out unto thee, and in seven ways they flee before thee. 8 `Jehovah commandeth with thee the blessing in thy storehouses, and in every putting forth of thy hand, and hath blessed thee in the land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee. 9 `Jehovah doth establish thee to Himself for a holy people, as He hath sworn to thee, when thou keepest the commands of Jehovah thy God, and hast walked in His ways; 10 and all the peoples of the land have seen that the name of Jehovah is called upon thee, and they have been afraid of thee. 11 `And Jehovah hath made thee abundant in good, in the fruit of the womb, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, on the ground which Jehovah hath sworn to thy fathers to give to thee. 12 `Jehovah doth open to thee his good treasure -- the heavens -- to give the rain of thy land in its season, and to bless all the work of thy hand, and thou hast lent to many nations, and thou -- thou dost not borrow. 13 `And Jehovah hath given thee for head, and not for tail; and thou hast been only above, and art not beneath, for thou dost hearken unto the commands of Jehovah thy God, which I am commanding thee to-day, to keep and to do, 14 and thou dost not turn aside from all the words which I am commanding you to-day -- right or left -- to go after other gods, to serve them.
• Deut 11:13-15 : 13 `And it hath been -- if thou hearken diligently unto My commands which I am commanding you to-day, to love Jehovah your God, and to serve Him with all your heart, and with all your soul -- 14 that I have given the rain of your land in its season -- sprinkling and gathered -- and thou hast gathered thy corn, and thy new wine, and thine oil, 15 and I have given herbs in thy field for thy cattle, and thou hast eaten, and been satisfied.
• Lev 18:4-5 : 4 `My judgments ye do, and My statutes ye keep, to walk in them; I `am' Jehovah your God; 5 and ye have kept My statutes and My judgments which man doth and liveth in them; I `am' Jehovah.
• Deut 7:12 : 12 `And it hath been, because ye hear these judgments, and have kept, and done them, that Jehovah thy God hath kept to thee the covenant and the kindness which He hath sworn to thy fathers,
• Josh 23:14-15 : 14 `And lo, I am going, to-day, in the way of all the earth, and ye have known -- with all your heart, and with all your soul -- that there hath not fallen one thing of all the good things which Jehovah your God hath spoken concerning you; the whole have come to you; there hath not failed of it one thing. 15 `And it hath been, as there hath come upon you all the good thing which Jehovah your God hath spoken unto you, so doth Jehovah bring upon you the whole of the evil thing, till His destroying you from off this good ground which Jehovah your God hath given to you;
• Judg 2:1-2 : 1 And a messenger of Jehovah goeth up from Gilgal unto Bochim, 2 and saith, `I cause you to come up out of Egypt, and bring you in unto the land which I have sworn to your fathers, and say, I do not break My covenant with you to the age; and ye -- ye make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land -- their altars ye break down; and ye have not hearkened to My voice -- what `is' this ye have done?
• Ps 81:12-16 : 12 And I send them away in the enmity of their heart, They walk in their own counsels. 13 O that My people were hearkening to Me, Israel in My ways would walk. 14 As a little thing their enemies I cause to bow, And against their adversaries I turn back My hand, 15 Those hating Jehovah feign obedience to Him, But their time is -- to the age. 16 He causeth him to eat of the fat of wheat, And `with' honey from a rock I satisfy thee!
• Isa 1:19 : 19 If ye are willing, and have hearkened, The good of the land ye consume,
• Isa 48:18-19 : 18 O that thou hadst attended to My commands, Then as a river is thy peace, And thy righteousness as billows of the sea, 19 And as sand is thy seed, And the offspring of thy bowels as its gravel, Not cut off nor destroyed his name before Me.
• Matt 7:24-25 : 24 `Therefore, every one who doth hear of me these words, and doth do them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house upon the rock; 25 and the rain did descend, and the streams came, and the winds blew, and they beat on that house, and it fell not, for it had been founded on the rock.
• Rom 2:7-9 : 7 to those, indeed, who in continuance of a good work, do seek glory, and honour, and incorruptibility -- life age-during; 8 and to those contentious, and disobedient, indeed, to the truth, and obeying the unrighteousness -- indignation and wrath, 9 tribulation and distress, upon every soul of man that is working the evil, both of Jew first, and of Greek; 10 and glory, and honour, and peace, to every one who is working the good, both to Jew first, and to Greek.
• Rev 22:14 : 14 `Happy are those doing His commands that the authority shall be theirs unto the tree of the life, and by the gates they may enter into the city;