Discovery BoxLeviticus 18:4 
Context18:4 You must observe my regulations 1 and you must be sure to walk in my statutes. 2 I am the Lord your God.
Leviticus 25:2
Context25:2 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘When you enter the land that I am giving you, the land must observe a Sabbath 3 to the Lord.
1 tn Heb “My regulations you shall do”; KJV, NASB “my judgments”; NRSV “My ordinances”; NIV, TEV “my laws.”
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
2 tn Heb “and my statutes you shall keep [or “watch; guard”] to walk in them.”
3 tn Heb “the land shall rest a Sabbath.”
