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Leviticus 18 Bible study: He shall live in them
Leviticus 18 sets Israel apart from Egypt, where they had lived, and Canaan, where they were going. At its heart is 18:5, "which if a man does, he shall live in them", words Paul quotes twice (Galatians 3:12; Romans 10:5), and in Galatians he goes on, "Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law" (Galatians 3:13). And the land that vomited out the nations could vomit out Israel too (18:28).
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“You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances, which if a man does, he shall live in them. I am the LORD.”
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“Leviticus 18 tells Israel not to do as they did in the land of Egypt, as well as in the land of Canaan.”
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What's really going on
Not Egypt, not Canaan
Before any law, the LORD says who he is: "I am the LORD your God" (18:2). Then he names two places: "You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived. You shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you" (18:3). One was behind them, one ahead. "You shall not follow their statutes" (18:3), but "You shall keep my statutes and walk in them" (18:4). In Hebrew, their statutes and my statutes are the same word, chuqqah (tap statutes). The chapter says "I am the LORD" six times, from 18:2 to its last words, "I am the LORD your God" (18:30).
Where it leads to Jesus
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law
Leviticus 18:5leads toGalatians 3:11-12
The LORD says of his statutes and ordinances, "which if a man does, he shall live in them" (18:5). Paul quotes these words: "The law is not of faith, but, ‘The man who does them will live by them.’" (Galatians 3:12). Before it he writes that "no man is justified by the law before God" (Galatians 3:11), and after it, "Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us" (Galatians 3:13).
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The Hebrew word behind it
חֻקָּהchuqqahsay khook-KAH
Brown-Driver-Briggs: "something prescribed, enactment, statute". The chapter uses it five times, and the first two are set against each other: "You shall not follow their statutes" (18:3), and "You shall keep my statutes and walk in them" (18:4). Egypt and Canaan had their statutes; the LORD gives his. At the end the WEB gives it as "customs": "that you do not practice any of these abominable customs which were practiced before you" (18:30). Leviticus uses it 26 times, more than any other book of the Hebrew Bible.
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Leviticus 18 Bible study questions
- 1The LORD said, "You shall not do as they do" (18:3), of the land Israel had come from and the land they were going to. What makes it hard to live differently from the people around you?
- 2The chapter opens and closes with "I am the LORD your God" (18:2, 18:30). How does knowing whose you are shape the way you live?
- 3Paul quotes 18:5 and then writes, "Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law" (Galatians 3:13). How does that change the way you think about obeying God?
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