Leviticus 18:2New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— “Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘I am the LORD your God.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, I am the LORD your God.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, I am the LORD your God.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, I am Jehovah your God.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, I [am] the LORD your God.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, I am Jehovah your God.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— Speak unto the sons of Israel, and thou shalt say unto them,—I—Yahweh, am your God:—
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— 'Speak unto the sons of Israel, and thou hast said unto them, I [am] Jehovah your God;
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: I am the Lord your God.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— Speake vnto the children of Israel, and say vnto them, I am the Lord your God.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— Speake vnto the children of Israel, and say vnto them, I [am] the LORD your God.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, I am the LORD your God.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, I [am] the Lord your God.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— Speak unto the children of Yisrael, and say unto them, I am Yahweh your Elohim. |
Speak
1696 {1696} Primeדִּבֵּרdabar{daw-bar'}
A primitive root; perhaps properly to arrange; but used figuratively (of words) to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue.
z8761 <8761> Grammar
Stem - Piel (See H8840) Mood - Imperative (See H8810) Count - 446
unto
x413 (0413) Complementאֵל'el{ale}
(Used only in the shortened constructive form (the second form)); a primitive particle, properly denoting motion towards, but occasionally used of a quiescent position, that is, near, with or among; often in general, to.
the children
1121 {1121} Primeבֵּןben{bane}
From H1129; a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like H0001, H0251, etc.).
of
Yiŝrä´ël
יִשׂרָאֵל,
3478 {3478} PrimeיִשְׂרָאֵלYisra'el{yis-raw-ale'}
From H8280 and H0410; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity.
and say
559 {0559} Primeאָמַר'amar{aw-mar'}
A primitive root; to say (used with great latitude).
z8804 <8804> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Perfect (See H8816) Count - 12562
unto
x413 (0413) Complementאֵל'el{ale}
(Used only in the shortened constructive form (the second form)); a primitive particle, properly denoting motion towards, but occasionally used of a quiescent position, that is, near, with or among; often in general, to.
them, I
x589 (0589) Complementאֲנִי'aniy{an-ee'}
Contracted from H0595; I.
am
Yähwè
יָהוֶה
3068 {3068} PrimeיְהֹוָהY@hovah{yeh-ho-vaw'}
From H1961; (the) self Existent or eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God.
your
´Élöhîm
אֱלֹהִים.
430 {0430} Primeאֱלֹהִים'elohiym{el-o-heem'}
Plural of H0433; gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative. |
Leviticus 18:2-4
_ _ I am the Lord your God — This renewed mention of the divine sovereignty over the Israelites was intended to bear particularly on some laws that were widely different from the social customs that obtained both in Egypt and Canaan; for the enormities, which the laws enumerated in this chapter were intended to put down, were freely practiced or publicly sanctioned in both of those countries; and, indeed, the extermination of the ancient Canaanites is described as owing to the abominations with which they had polluted the land. |
Leviticus 18:2
Your God — Your sovereign, and lawgiver. This is often repeated because the things here forbidden were practised and allowed by the gentiles, to whose custom he opposes divine authority and their obligation to obey his commands. |
Leviticus 18:4 Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I [ am] the LORD your God.
Leviticus 11:44 For I [am] the LORD your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I [ am] holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Leviticus 19:3- 4 Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I [ am] the LORD your God. ... Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I [ am] the LORD your God.
Leviticus 19:10 And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather [ every] grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger: I [ am] the LORD your God.
Leviticus 19:34 [ But] the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I [ am] the LORD your God.
Leviticus 20:7 Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I [ am] the LORD your God.
Genesis 17:7 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
Exodus 6:7 And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I [ am] the LORD your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
Exodus 20:2 I [ am] the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Psalms 33:12 Blessed [ is] the nation whose God [ is] the LORD; [ and] the people [ whom] he hath chosen for his own inheritance.
Ezekiel 20:5 And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when I chose Israel, and lifted up mine hand unto the seed of the house of Jacob, and made myself known unto them in the land of Egypt, when I lifted up mine hand unto them, saying, I [am] the LORD your God;
Ezekiel 20:7 Then said I unto them, Cast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I [am] the LORD your God.
Ezekiel 20:19- 20 I [ am] the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; ... And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I [ am] the LORD your God.
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