Leviticus 26:3

3 "If you live by my decrees and obediently keep my commandments,

Leviticus 26:3 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 26:3

If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do
them.
] Both moral, ceremonial, and judicial, which had been delivered unto them, and now completely recorded in this and the preceding book; for what follow in the two next are chiefly repetitions of what are contained in these.

Leviticus 26:3 In-Context

1 "Don't make idols for yourselves; don't set up an image or a sacred pillar for yourselves, and don't place a carved stone in your land that you can bow down to in worship. I am God, your God.
2 "Keep my Sabbaths; treat my Sanctuary with reverence. I am God. "If You Live by My Decrees . . . "
3 "If you live by my decrees and obediently keep my commandments,
4 I will send the rains in their seasons, the ground will yield its crops and the trees of the field their fruit.
5 You will thresh until the grape harvest and the grape harvest will continue until planting time; you'll have more than enough to eat and will live safe and secure in your land.
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