Leviticus 18:5
Modern Translations
New International Version
Keep my decrees and laws, for the person who obeys them will live by them. I am the LORD.

New Living Translation
If you obey my decrees and my regulations, you will find life through them. I am the LORD.

English Standard Version
You shall therefore keep my statutes and my rules; if a person does them, he shall live by them: I am the LORD.

Berean Study Bible
Keep My statutes and My judgments, for the man who does these things will live by them. I am the LORD.

New American Standard Bible
So you shall keep My statutes and My judgments, which, if a person follows them, then he will live by them; I am the LORD.

NASB 1995
'So you shall keep My statutes and My judgments, by which a man may live if he does them; I am the LORD.

NASB 1977
‘So you shall keep My statutes and My judgments, by which a man may live if he does them; I am the LORD.

Amplified Bible
So you shall keep My statutes and My judgments, by which, if a person keeps them, he shall live; I am the LORD.

Christian Standard Bible
Keep my statutes and ordinances; a person will live if he does them. I am the LORD.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Keep My statutes and ordinances; a person will live if he does them. I am Yahweh."

Contemporary English Version
Obey them and you will live. I am the LORD.

Good News Translation
Follow the practices and the laws that I give you; you will save your life by doing so. I am the LORD."

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Live by my standards, and obey my rules. You will have life through them. I am the LORD.

International Standard Version
Keep my statutes and my ordinances, which a person is to obey in order to live in them. I am the LORD.

NET Bible
So you must keep my statutes and my regulations; anyone who does so will live by keeping them. I am the LORD.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.

New King James Version
You shall therefore keep My statutes and My judgments, which if a man does, he shall live by them: I am the LORD.

King James 2000 Bible
You shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.

New Heart English Bible
You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances; which if a man does, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.

World English Bible
You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances; which if a man does, he shall live in them: I am Yahweh.

American King James Version
You shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.

American Standard Version
Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and mine ordinances; which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am Jehovah.

A Faithful Version
And you shall keep My statutes and My judgments, which if a man does, he shall live in them. I am the LORD.

Darby Bible Translation
And ye shall observe my statutes and my judgments, by which the man that doeth them shall live: I am Jehovah.

English Revised Version
Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.

Webster's Bible Translation
Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments: which if a man doeth, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Ye shall keepe therefore my statutes, & my iudgementes, which if a man doe, he shall then liue in them: I am the Lord.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Ye shall kepe therfore mine ordinaunces, and my iudgementes: which if a man do he shall lyue in them: I am the Lorde.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Therfore shal ye kepe my statutes and my lawes. For the man that doth the same, shal liue therin, for I am the LORDE.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
Kepe therfore myne ordinaunces, ad my iudgemetes whiche yf a man doo he shall lyue thereby: for I am the Lorde.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
And you have kept My statutes and My judgments which man does and lives in them; I [am] YHWH.

Young's Literal Translation
and ye have kept My statutes and My judgments which man doth and liveth in them; I am Jehovah.

Smith's Literal Translation
And ye watched my laws and my judgments, which a man shall do them, and he lived in them: I am Jehovah.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Keep my laws and my judgments, which if a man do, he shall live in them. I am the Lord.

Catholic Public Domain Version
Keep my laws and judgments; when a man does these, he shall live by them. I am the Lord.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Keep my commands and my judgments, for a son of man who does them lives in them; I AM LORD JEHOVAH.

Lamsa Bible
You shall therefore keep my commandments and my judgments, which if a man do, he shall live in them; I am the LORD.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Ye shall therefore keep My statutes, and Mine ordinances, which if a man do, he shall live by them: I am the LORD.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
So ye shall keep all my ordinances, and all my judgments, and do them; which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the Lord your God.
















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