Imamat 25:43

25:43 You must not rule over him harshly, ¹  but you must fear your God.

Imamat 25:17

25:17 No one is to oppress his fellow citizen, ²  but you must fear your God, because I am the Lord your God.

Imamat 19:32

19:32 You must stand up in the presence of the aged, honor the presence of an elder, and fear your God. I am the Lord.

Imamat 19:14

19:14 You must not curse a deaf person or put a stumbling block in front of a blind person. ³  You must fear ⁴  your God; I am the Lord.

Imamat 25:36

25:36 Do not take interest or profit from him, ⁵  but you must fear your God and your brother must live ⁶  with you.

Imamat 26:36

26:36 “‘As for ⁷  the ones who remain among you, I will bring despair into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a blowing leaf will pursue them, and they will flee as one who flees the sword and fall down even though there is no pursuer.

Imamat 19:3

19:3 Each of you must respect his mother and his father, ⁸  and you must keep my Sabbaths. I am the Lord your God.

Imamat 26:6

26:6 I will grant peace in the land so that ⁹  you will lie down to sleep without anyone terrifying you. ¹⁰  I will remove harmful animals ¹¹  from the land, and no sword of war ¹²  will pass through your land.

Imamat 19:15

Justice, Love, and Propriety

19:15 “‘You ¹³  must not deal unjustly in judgment: ¹⁴  you must neither show partiality to the poor nor honor the rich. ¹⁵  You must judge your fellow citizen fairly. ¹⁶ 

Imamat 26:17

26:17 I will set my face against you. You will be struck down before your enemies, those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when there is no one pursuing you.

Imamat 26:16

26:16 I for my part ¹⁷  will do this to you: I will inflict horror on you, consumption and fever, which diminish eyesight and drain away the vitality of life. ¹⁸  You will sow your seed in vain because ¹⁹  your enemies will eat it. ²⁰ 

[25:43]  ¹ tn Heb “You shall not rule in him in violence”; cf. NASB “with severity”; NIV “ruthlessly.”

[25:17]  ² tn Heb “And you shall not oppress a man his fellow citizen.”

[19:14]  ³ tn Heb “You shall not curse a deaf [person] and before a blind [person] you shall not put a stumbling block.”

[19:14]  ⁴ tn Heb “And you shall fear.” Many English versions (e.g., KJV, ASV, NAB, NASB, NIV) regard the Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) as adversative in force here (“but”).

[25:36]  ⁵ tn The meaning of the terms rendered “interest” and “profit” is much debated (see the summaries in P. J. Budd, Leviticus [NCBC], 354-55 and B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 178). Verse 37, however, suggests that the first refers to a percentage of money and the second percentage of produce (see J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 421).

[25:36]  ⁶ tn In form the Hebrew term וְחֵי (vÿkhey, “shall live”) is the construct plural noun (i.e., “the life of”), but here it is used as the finite verb (cf. v. 35 and GKC 218 §76.i).

[26:36]  ⁷ tn Heb “And.”

[19:3]  ⁸ tn Heb “A man his mother and his father you [plural] shall fear.” The LXX, Syriac, Vulgate, and certain Targum mss reverse the order, “his father and his mother.” The term “fear” is subject to misunderstanding by the modern reader, so “respect” has been used in the translation. Cf. NAB, NRSV “revere”; NASB “reverence.”

[26:6]  ⁹ tn Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative force here.

[26:6]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and there will be no one who terrifies.” The words “to sleep” have been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[26:6]  ¹¹ tn Heb “harmful animal,” singular, but taken here as a collective plural (so almost all English versions).

[26:6]  ¹² tn Heb “no sword”; the words “of war” are supplied in the translation to indicate what the metaphor of the sword represents.

[19:15]  ¹³ tc Smr has the singular rather than the plural “you” of the MT, which brings this verb form into line with the ones surrounding it.

[19:15]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “You shall not do injustice in judgment” (NASB similar); cf. NIV “do not pervert justice.”

[19:15]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “You shall not lift up faces of poor [people] and you shall not honor faces of great.”

[19:15]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “In righteousness you shall judge your fellow citizen.”

[26:16]  ¹⁷ tn Or “I also” (see HALOT 76 s.v. אַף 6.b).

[26:16]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “soul.” These expressions may refer either to the physical effects of consumption and fever as the rendering in the text suggests (e.g., J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 452, 454, “diminishing eyesight and loss of appetite”), or perhaps the more psychological effects, “which exhausts the eyes” because of anxious hope “and causes depression” (Heb “causes soul [נֶפֶשׁ, nefesh] to pine away”), e.g., B. A. Levine, Leviticus (JPSTC), 185.

[26:16]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have causal force here.

[26:16]  ²⁰ tn That is, “your enemies will eat” the produce that grows from the sown seed.