Discovery BoxLeviticus 18:5 
Context18:5 So you must keep 1 my statutes and my regulations; anyone who does so will live by keeping them. 2 I am the Lord.
Leviticus 18:30
Context18:30 You must obey my charge to not practice any of the abominable statutes 3 that have been done before you, so that you do not 4 defile yourselves by them. I am the Lord your God.’”
1 tn Heb “And you shall keep.”
2 tn Heb “which the man shall do them and shall live in them.” The term for “a man, human being; mankind” (אָדָם, ’adam; see the note on Lev 1:2) in this case refers to any person among “mankind,” male or female. The expression וָחַי (vakhay, “and shall live”) looks like the adjective “living” so it is written וְחָיָה (vÿkhayah) in Smr, but the MT form is simply the same verb written as a double ayin verb (see HALOT 309 s.v. חיה qal and GKC 218 §76.i; cf. Lev 25:35).
3 tn Heb “to not do from the statutes of the detestable acts.”
4 tn Heb “and you will not.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative force here.
