Leviticus 26:3 (WEB)

Passage

“‘If you walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;

Nearby Context

Leviticus 26:1 “‘You shall make for yourselves no idols, and you shall not raise up a carved image or a pillar, and you shall not place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it; for I am Yahweh your God.

Leviticus 26:2 “‘You shall keep my Sabbaths, and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am Yahweh.

Leviticus 26:3 “‘If you walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;

Leviticus 26:4 then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

Leviticus 26:5 Your threshing shall reach to the vintage, and the vintage shall reach to the sowing time. You shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "walk", "statutes", "keep", and "commandments". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "walk" and "statutes", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 2's "You shall keep my Sabbaths and have..." into verse 4's "then I will give you your rains...", so "walk" and "statutes" 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 "walk" and "statutes" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.