Imamat 11:45
Konteks11:45 for I am the Lord who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be your God, 1 and you are to be holy because I am holy.
Imamat 18:4
Konteks18:4 You must observe my regulations 2 and you must be sure to walk in my statutes. 3 I am the Lord your God.
Imamat 19:25
Konteks19:25 Then in the fifth year you may eat its fruit to add its produce to your harvest. 4 I am the Lord your God.
Imamat 24:22
Konteks24:22 There will be one regulation 5 for you, whether a foreigner or a native citizen, for I am the Lord your God.’”
[11:45] 1 tn Heb “to be to you for a God.”
[18:4] 2 tn Heb “My regulations you shall do”; KJV, NASB “my judgments”; NRSV “My ordinances”; NIV, TEV “my laws.”
[18:4] sn The Hebrew term translated “regulation” (מִשְׁפָּט, mishpat) refers to the set of regulations about to be set forth in the following chapters (cf. Lev 19:37; 20:22; 25:18; 26:46). Note especially the thematic and formulaic relationships between the introduction here in Lev 18:1-5 and the paraenesis in Lev 20:22-26, both of which refer explicitly to the corrupt nations and the need to separate from them by keeping the
[18:4] 3 tn Heb “and my statutes you shall keep [or “watch; guard”] to walk in them.”
[19:25] 4 tn Heb “to add to you its produce.” The rendering here assumes that the point of this clause is simply that finally being allowed to eat the fruit in the fifth year adds the fruit of the tree to their harvest. Some take the verb to be from אָסַף (’asaf, “to gather”) rather than יָסַף (yasaf, “to add; to increase”), rendering the verse, “to gather to you the produce” (E. S. Gerstenberger, Leviticus [OTL], 260, and see the versions referenced in J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 306). Others take it to mean that by following the regulations given previously they will honor the
[24:22] 5 tn Heb “a regulation of one”; KJV, ASV “one manner of law”; NASB “one standard.”
