Leviticus 20:23 (YLT)

Passage

and ye walk not in the statutes of the nation which I am sending away from before you, for all these they have done, and I am wearied with them;

Nearby Context

Leviticus 20:21 `And a man who taketh his brother's wife--it <FI>is<Fi> impurity; the nakedness of his brother he hath uncovered; childless they are.

Leviticus 20:22 `And ye have kept all My statutes, and all My judgments, and have done them, and the land vomiteth you not out whither I am bringing you in to dwell in it;

Leviticus 20:23 and ye walk not in the statutes of the nation which I am sending away from before you, for all these they have done, and I am wearied with them;

Leviticus 20:24 and I say to you, Ye--ye do possess their ground, and I--I give it to you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey; I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah your God, who hath separated you from the peoples.

Leviticus 20:25 `And ye have made separation between the pure beasts and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the pure, and ye do not make yourselves abominable by beast or by fowl, or by anything which creepeth <FI>on<Fi> the ground which I have separated to you for unclean;

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "walk", "statutes", "nation", "sending", "away", "before", "done", and "wearied". 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 22's "And ye have kept all My statutes..." into verse 24's "and I say to you Ye--ye do...", 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.