Leviticus 18:5
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
You shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.
American King James Version (AKJV)
You shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.
American Standard Version (ASV)
Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and mine ordinances; which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am Jehovah.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
So keep my rules and my decisions, which, if a man does them, will be life to him: I am the Lord.
Webster's Revision
Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments: which if a man doeth, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.
World English Bible
You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances; which if a man does, he shall live in them: I am Yahweh.
English Revised Version (ERV)
Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.
Barnes's Leviticus 18:5 Bible Commentary
If a man keeps the "statutes" (i. e. the ordinances of Leviticus 18:4) and "judgments" of the divine law, he shall not be "cut off from his people" (compare Leviticus 18:29), he shall gain true life, the life which connects him with Yahweh through his obedience. See the margin reference and Luke 10:28; Romans 10:5; Galatians 3:12.
Wesley's Leviticus 18:5 Bible Commentary
18:5 He shall live in them - Not only happily here, but eternally hereafter. This is added as a powerful argument why they should follow God's commands, rather than mens examples, because their life and happiness depend upon it. And though in strictness, and according to the covenant of works they could not challenge life for so doing, except their obedience was universal, perfect, constant and perpetual, and therefore no man since the fall could be justified by the law, yet by the covenant of grace this life is promised to all that obey God's commands sincerely.
