Lévitique 18:4

4 Vous pratiquerez mes ordonnances, et vous garderez mes lois pour les suivre: Je suis l'Éternel, votre Dieu.

Lévitique 18:4 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 18:4

Ye shall do my judgments
Which are just and right, and according to the rules of justice and equity; these are things, as Jarchi observes, which are said in the law with judgment, or are laws framed with the highest reason, even by the judgment of God himself, whose judgment is always according to truth: Aben Ezra thinks, these are the judicial laws in ( Exodus 21:1-23:33 ) ; but though they may include them, they have more particular respect to the following laws: and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein:
which he had ordained and appointed of his own will and pleasure, which Jarchi calls the decree of the king, or which he decreed and determined as a king, having absolute power over his subjects to enact and enjoin what he pleased; wherefore some think these refer to ceremonial laws, which depended upon the will of the lawgiver, and were not founded in any natural sense or reason, wherefore it follows: I [am] the Lord your God:
who had a right to make what laws he pleased, being their Sovereign, and which they in gratitude as well as in justice ought to obey, he being their God, their covenant God, who had done great and good things for them.

Lévitique 18:4 In-Context

2 Parle aux enfants d'Israël, et dis-leur: Je suis l'Éternel, votre Dieu.
3 Vous ne ferez point ce qui se fait dans le pays d'Égypte, où vous avez habité, ni ce qui se fait au pays de Canaan où je vous mène: vous ne marcherez point selon leurs lois.
4 Vous pratiquerez mes ordonnances, et vous garderez mes lois pour les suivre: Je suis l'Éternel, votre Dieu.
5 Vous garderez donc mes lois et mes ordonnances; l'homme qui les pratiquera vivra par elles: Je suis l'Éternel.
6 Nul de vous ne s'approchera de sa proche parente, pour découvrir sa nudité: Je suis l'Éternel.
The Ostervald translation is in the public domain.