Leviticus 20:24 (DBY)

Passage

And I have said unto you, Ye shall possess their land, and I will give it unto you for a possession; a land flowing with milk and honey: I am Jehovah your God, who have separated you from the peoples.

Nearby Context

Leviticus 20:22 And ye shall observe all my statutes, and all mine ordinances, and do them, that the land whither I bring you to dwell therein vomit you not out.

Leviticus 20:23 And ye shall not walk in the customs of the nation which I am casting out before you; for all these things have they done, and they became an abomination to me.

Leviticus 20:24 And I have said unto you, Ye shall possess their land, and I will give it unto you for a possession; a land flowing with milk and honey: I am Jehovah your God, who have separated you from the peoples.

Leviticus 20:25 And ye shall make a separation between the clean beast and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean, and ye shall not make yourselves an abomination by beast, or by fowl, or by anything that creepeth on the ground which I have separated for you, declaring [it] as unclean.

Leviticus 20:26 And ye shall be holy unto me; for I Jehovah am holy, and have separated you from the peoples to be mine.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "said", "shall", "possess", "land", "give", "possession", and "flowing". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "said" and "shall", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 23's "And ye shall not walk in the..." into verse 25's "And ye shall make a separation between...", so "said" and "shall" belong inside that flow. In Leviticus context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "said" and "shall" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.