Leviticus 25:18

18 “ ‘Follow my decrees and be careful to obey my laws, and you will live safely in the land.

Leviticus 25:18 in Other Translations

18 Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety.

18 "Therefore you shall do my statutes and keep my rules and perform them, and then you will dwell in the land securely.

18 “If you want to live securely in the land, follow my decrees and obey my regulations.

18 "Keep my decrees and observe my laws and you will live secure in the land.

18 "You are to observe My statutes and ordinances and carefully observe them, so that you may live securely in the land.

Leviticus 25:18 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 25:18

Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and
do them
These and all others he enjoined; by which tenure, even obedience to all his commands, moral, ritual, and judicial, they were to hold the land of Canaan, and their possessions in it, which is intended in the next clause: and ye shall dwell in the land in safety;
without any fear of enemies, or of the neighbouring nations about them seizing upon them, and distressing them; and Jarchi observes, that it was for transgressing the sabbatical year that Israel was carried captive, which he thinks is intimated in ( 2 Chronicles 36:21 ) ; and that the seventy years' captivity in Babylon were for the seventy sabbatical years that had been neglected.

Leviticus 25:18 In-Context

16 When the years are many, you are to increase the price, and when the years are few, you are to decrease the price, because what is really being sold to you is the number of crops.

17 Do not take advantage of each other, but fear your God. I am the LORD your God.

18 “ ‘Follow my decrees and be careful to obey my laws, and you will live safely in the land.

19 Then the land will yield its fruit, and you will eat your fill and live there in safety.

20 You may ask, “What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not plant or harvest our crops?”

Cross References

• 1. S Genesis 26:5
• 2. ver 19; Leviticus 26:4,5; Deuteronomy 12:10; Deuteronomy 33:28; Job 5:22; Psalms 4:8; Jeremiah 23:6; Jeremiah 30:10; Jeremiah 32:37; Jeremiah 33:16; Ezekiel 28:26; Ezekiel 34:25; Ezekiel 38:14