These are the commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses for the children of Israel in mount Sinai.
Parallel translations
- WEB These are the commandments which Yahweh commanded Moses for the children of Israel on Mount Sinai.
- BSB These are the commandments that the LORD gave to Moses for the Israelites on Mount Sinai.
- NKJV These are the commandments which the Lord commanded Moses for the children of Israel on Mount Sinai.
- NASB These are the commandments which the Lord commanded Moses for the sons of Israel on Mount Sinai.
- NLT These are the commands that the Lord gave through Moses on Mount Sinai for the Israelites.
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Quick answer
This concluding verse affirms that these are the commandments the LORD gave Moses for Israel at Mount Sinai. It seals Leviticus as God's authoritative word.
Overview
The book closes by grounding all its laws in God's revelation to Moses at Sinai, marking them as divinely given, not human invention. This colophon underscores the authority and unity of Leviticus as covenant instruction for a holy people. Its call to holiness finds its fulfillment in Christ, in whom the demands of the law are met and the way of true worship is opened.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Lev 26:46These are the statutes and judgments and laws, which the LORD made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.
- Num 1:1And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
- John 1:17For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
- Gal 4:24–25Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
- Heb 12:18–25For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
- Deut 4:5Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it.
- Deut 4:45These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Moses spake unto the children of Israel, after they came forth out of Egypt,
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