Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Leviticus 22:31
Therefore shall ye keep my commandments, and do them: I [am] the LORD.
31 33. Concluding exhortation (characteristic of H)
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Lev 22:31-33
I am the Lord.
Five motives to obedience
Five motives are strewn on their path to constrain them to close obedience.
1. I am the Lord. This is authority employed.
2. I will be hallowed among the children of Israel. This is His holiness, and His desire to diffuse awe of His holy name.
3. I am the Lord which hallow you. Here is an appeal to their privileges as Israelites. Do you not feel that you actually are set apart for Me?
4. I am the Lord which brought you out of Egypt. Here is His claim as Redeemer, who paid the price and set free the captives. Is there gratitude in your souls? Is there sense of thankfulness for favour done?
5. Your God–as well as your Lord: His claim as Father, Shepherd, King, and whatever else there is that is tender in relationship, or beneficial in office, or sweet in character–all is summed up in your God! Who is like our God? Who would not fear Thee? (Jer 10:7). (A. A. Bonar.)
Unquestioning obedience peremptorily enforced
I. What Jehovah was in Israel. I am the Lord.
II. What Jehovah was to Israel. Your God.
III. What Jehovah had done for Israel. That brought you out of the land of Egypt.
IV. What Jehovah would do with Israel. I am the Lord which hallow you. Ceremonially and symbolically priests and people were made holy by–
1. The rights they observed.
2. The sacrifices they offered.
3. The manifested presence of the Lord. (F. W. Brown.)
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Fuente: Biblical Illustrator Edited by Joseph S. Exell
Therefore shall ye keep my commandments, and do them,…. Both priests and people, even all the commandments delivered at this time, as well as all others; these they were to observe and take notice of, and keep them in memory, and put them in practice:
I [am] the Lord; [See comments on Le 22:30].
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Concluding exhortation, as in Lev 18:29; Lev 19:37. (On Lev 22:32, cf. Lev 18:21 and Lev 11:44-45.)
Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament
(31) Therefore shall ye keep my commandments.Better, and ye shall keep my commandments. The law about the priests and sacrifices now concludes with an appeal to both the priests and the people to faithfully observe these commandments.
Neither shall ye profane my holy name.Better, and ye shall not profane. The rendering of the conjunctives, both in the former verse and in this, by therefore and neither, as is done in the Authorised version, is not only unnecessary, but mars the simple and dignified style of the original. For the manner in which Gods name is profaned when His commandments are violated, see Lev. 18:21.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
31. Keep my commandments We keep the commandment of God by obeying it, his word by believing it, and his promise by appropriating it. These various commands of the Levitical ritual constituted the probation of the Israelites.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Summary of This Section.
Lev 22:31-33
“Therefore shall you keep my commandments, and do them. I am Yahweh. And you shall not profane my holy name, but I will be hallowed among the children of Israel. I am Yahweh who makes you holy, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. I am Yahweh.”
So people and priests together are to keep Yahweh’s commandments and do them. His holy Name must be honoured by their lives, and by their behaviour, and by their obedience so that His holiness is recognised and acknowledged. That is why He has made them holy, setting them apart as His people and delivering them and giving them His instruction (torah – Law). That is why He requires them to be holy. For they are His covenant people whom He has brought out of Egypt so that He could be their God. He is Yahweh. (There is no other).
Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett
Lev 22:31 Therefore shall ye keep my commandments, and do them: I [am] the LORD.
Ver. 31. I am the Lord. ] Your rightful Lord, and my reward is with me, to give unto every man according to his works.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Lev 18:4, Lev 18:5, Lev 19:37, Num 15:40, Deu 4:40, 1Th 4:1, 1Th 4:2
Reciprocal: Deu 4:1 – unto the statutes