Leviticus 20:8
Context20:8 You must be sure to obey my statutes. 1 I am the Lord who sanctifies you.
Leviticus 20:22-24
Context20:22 “‘You must be sure to obey all my statutes and regulations, 2 so that 3 the land to which I am about to bring you to take up residence there does not vomit you out. 20:23 You must not walk in the statutes of the nation 4 which I am about to drive out before you, because they have done all these things and I am filled with disgust against them. 20:24 So I have said to you: You yourselves will possess their land and I myself will give it to you for a possession, a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the Lord your God who has set you apart from the other peoples. 5
1 tn Heb “And you shall keep my statutes and you shall do them.” This appears to be a kind of verbal hendiadys, where the first verb is a modifier of the action of the second verb (see GKC 386 §120.d, although שָׁמַר [shamar, “to keep”] is not cited there; cf. Lev 22:31, etc.).
2 tn Heb “And you shall keep all my statutes and all my regulations and you shall do them.” This appears to be a kind of verbal hendiadys, where the first verb is a modifier of the action of the second verb (see GKC 386 §120.d, although שָׁמַר [shamar, “to keep”] is not cited there; cf. Lev 22:31, etc.).
3 tn Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative force here.
4 tc One medieval Hebrew
5 tc Here and with the same phrase in v. 26, the LXX adds “all,” resulting in the reading “all the peoples.”