Leviticus 26:46

Summary

This verse closes a legal section by summarizing three categories of material — statutes, judgments, and legal procedures — as content that Yehovah gave between himself and the people of Israel at Mount Sinai, transmitted through Moses.

Key words

• chuqqim ("statutes", H2706G) — masculine plural noun with definite article, denoting a category of fixed decrees.
• mishpatim ("judgments", H4941G) — masculine plural noun with definite article, referring to legal rulings or case-law type ordinances.
• torot ("legal [procedures]", H8451) — feminine plural noun with definite article; plural form of the term elsewhere used in the singular for "law/instruction."
• natan ("he gave", H5414I) — qal perfect verb, third person masculine singular, marking a completed act of giving with Yehovah as subject.
• beino... u-vein ("between himself... and between", H0996G) — construct noun repeated to form the correlative "between X and Y" structure, followed by a pronominal suffix ("himself") and the phrase bene Yisra'el ("the people of Israel", H1121G + H3478).

What the text says

The verse opens with the demonstrative 'elleh ("these", H0428) functioning as the subject of a nominal sentence, pointing back to material already given and forward through an appositional list: ha-chuqqim, ha-mishpatim, ha-torot — three plural nouns, each with the definite article, joined by the conjunction ve- ("and", H9002). This triple naming groups the preceding legal material into three labeled categories rather than treating it as a single undifferentiated mass.

The relative clause introduced by 'asher ("which", H0834A) modifies this list, with natan Yehovah ("Yehovah gave") as its verb and subject. The qal perfect form situates the giving as a completed event. The location of that giving is specified by the construct phrase beino... u-vein bene Yisra'el — literally "between him... and between the sons of Israel" — using the same construct noun bein ("between", H0996G) twice to frame a relationship involving two parties: Yehovah (via the pronominal suffix "himself") and the people of Israel (via the construct chain bene Yisra'el, "sons/people of Israel").

The final two prepositional phrases anchor the event geographically and instrumentally: be-har Sinai ("on the mountain of Sinai", H2022G + H5514G) locates it, and be-yad Mosheh ("by the hand of Moses", H3027J + H4872) specifies the means of transmission, using the construct noun yad ("hand") idiomatically to indicate agency.

Differences between versions

The LXX renders the three Hebrew nouns differently in number and possession: it reads ta krimata mou ("my judgments") and ta prostagmata mou ("my statutes") — with a first-person pronoun "my" not present in the Hebrew text given — and ho nomos ("the law") in the singular, where the Hebrew has torot in the plural. The Hebrew construct phrase beino ("between himself") is rendered in the LXX as anu meson autou ("between him"), without an explicit first-person possessive attached to the noun list.