What does Leviticus 18:5 mean?

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Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

• Ezekiel 20:11

  And I gave them my statutes, and showed them mine ordinances, which if a man do, he shall live in them.

• Luke 10:28

  And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live.

• Exodus 6:6

  Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am Jehovah, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm, and with great judgments:

• Malachi 3:6

  For I, Jehovah, change not; therefore ye, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed.

• Exodus 6:2

  And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am Jehovah:

• Ezekiel 20:21

  But the children rebelled against me; they walked not in my statutes, neither kept mine ordinances to do them, which if a man do, he shall live in them; they profaned my sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.

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