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In biblical terminology, a "statute" refers to a decree, law, or ordinance established by God, often given through His prophets or leaders, to guide the moral, ceremonial, and civil conduct of His people. Statutes are integral to the covenant relationship between God and His people, serving as a means to maintain holiness, justice, and order within the community.

Old Testament Context

The concept of statutes is deeply rooted in the Old Testament, particularly within the Pentateuch, where God delivers His laws to the Israelites through Moses. These statutes encompass a wide range of directives, including moral laws, ceremonial practices, and civil regulations. They are intended to set Israel apart as a holy nation, distinct from surrounding peoples.

InLeviticus 18:4-5 , God commands, "You are to practice My judgments and keep My statutes by walking in them. I am the LORD your God. Keep My statutes and My judgments, for the man who does these things will live by them. I am the LORD." Here, statutes are presented as life-giving, emphasizing obedience as a pathway to life and blessing.

The Book of Deuteronomy reiterates the importance of statutes, urging the Israelites to remember and adhere to them as they enter the Promised Land.Deuteronomy 4:1 states, "Now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and ordinances I am teaching you to follow, so that you may live and go in and take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you."

Role in Worship and Society

Statutes also play a crucial role in the worship practices of Israel. They dictate the procedures for sacrifices, festivals, and other religious observances, ensuring that worship is conducted in a manner pleasing to God. For instance, the statutes concerning the Passover (Exodus 12:14) and the Day of Atonement (Leviticus 16:29-31) are central to Israel's liturgical calendar.

In addition to religious observance, statutes govern social justice and community relations. They address issues such as property rights, restitution, and the treatment of the poor and vulnerable.Leviticus 19:15 instructs, "You must not pervert justice; you must not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the rich; you are to judge your neighbor fairly."

New Testament Perspective

While the New Testament does not focus on statutes in the same way as the Old Testament, the principles underlying these divine decrees continue to be relevant. Jesus Christ fulfills the Law, embodying its moral and spiritual essence. InMatthew 5:17 , Jesus declares, "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them, but to fulfill them."

The apostolic writings emphasize the spirit of the law, urging believers to live by the principles of love and righteousness that the statutes intended to cultivate.Romans 8:4 speaks of the righteous requirement of the law being fulfilled in those who walk according to the Spirit.

Eternal Significance

The enduring significance of statutes is highlighted inPsalm 119, a profound meditation on the beauty and perfection of God's law.Psalm 119:33 petitions, "Teach me, O LORD, the way of Your statutes, and I will keep them to the end." This verse reflects the believer's desire to understand and adhere to God's decrees as a lifelong commitment.

In summary, statutes in the Bible represent God's authoritative instructions for His people, encompassing moral, ceremonial, and civil dimensions. They are foundational to the covenant relationship and continue to inform the ethical and spiritual life of believers.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) An ordinance; a decree; an act of the legislature of a state or country, declaring, commanding, or prohibiting something; a positive law; the written will of the legislature expressed with all the requisite forms of legislation; -- used in distinction from common law. See Common.

2. (n.) An act of a corporation or of its founder, intended as a permanent rule or law; as, the statutes of a university.

3. (n.) An assemblage of farming servants (held possibly by statute) for the purpose of being hired; -- called also statute fair.

Greek

1379. dogmatizo -- to decree, to subject oneself to an ordinance
... be subject to ordinances. From dogma; to prescribe bystatute, ie (reflexively)
to submit to, ceremonially rule -- be subject to ordinances. see GREEK dogma....

1345. dikaioma -- an ordinance, a sentence of acquittal or...
... judgment, justification, ordinance. From dikaioo; an equitable deed; by implication,
astatute or decision -- judgment, justification, ordinance, righteousness....

113. athesmos -- lawless
... [In ancient secular Greek, 114 () referred to what was "illegal (contrary
tostatute)," as in Plutarch (1:712b; cf. TDNT 1:167).]....

111. athemitos -- lawless
... From a (as a negative particle) and a derivative of themis (statute; from the base
of tithemi); illegal; by implication, flagitious -- abominable, unlawful...

Strong's Hebrew

7010. qeyam -- astatute
... 7009, 7010. qeyam. 7011 . astatute. Transliteration: qeyam Phonetic
Spelling: (keh-yawm') Short Definition:statute. Word Origin...

2708. chuqqah -- something prescribed, an enactment,statute
... 2707, 2708. chuqqah. 2709 . something prescribed, an enactment,statute.
Transliteration: chuqqah Phonetic Spelling: (khook-kaw') Short Definition: statutes...

2706. choq -- something prescribed or owed, astatute
... 2705, 2706. choq. 2707 . something prescribed or owed, astatute. Transliteration:
choq Phonetic Spelling: (khoke) Short Definition: statutes....

6490. piqqud -- a precept
... Definition: precepts. Word Origin from paqad Definition a precept NASB Word
Usage precepts (24). commandment, precept,statute. Or piqqud...

8451. torah -- direction, instruction, law
... bullock, ox. Or torah {to-raw'}; from yarah; a precept orstatute, especially the
Decalogue or Pentateuch -- law. see HEBREW yarah. 8450, 8451. torah. 8452 >...

1881. dath -- decree, law
... Of uncertain (perhaps foreign) derivation: a royal edict orstatute -- commandment,
commission, decree, law, manner. 1880, 1881. dath. 1882 ....

Library

TheStatute of David for the Sharing of the Spoil
... TheStatute of David for the Sharing of the Spoil.... And it was so from that day forward,
that he made it astatute and an ordinance for Israel unto this day....

Whether the Defects Occurring During the Celebration of this...
... Consequently it seems impossible to observe the Church'sstatute, whereby the
priest consecrating must communicate of his own sacrifice....

The Use of Fear in Religion.
... The Mosaicstatute simply says to man: "Thou shalt not kill." But the re-enactment
of thisstatute, by incarnate Deity, is accompanied with an explanation and...

Whether a Religious Sins Mortally Whenever He Transgresses the...
... to Objection 2: Not all the contents of the law are set forth by way of precept;
for some are expressed under the form of ordinance orstatute binding under...

Sin and the Divine Reaction against It
... To say that the relations of God and man are forensic is to say that they are regulated
bystatute"that sin is a breach ofstatute"that the sinner is a...

Sin and the Divine Reaction against It
... To say that the relations of God and man are forensic is to say that they are regulated
bystatute " that sin is a breach ofstatute " that the sinner is a...

Of Subtraction of Tithes.
... had always been remembered to be in pasture, and had never within living memory
paid any tithe, was holden insufficient to defeat an action on thisstatute.5 T...

Purposes of God.
... 2. It is used as synonymous with ordinance,statute, law. Dan. vi.7:
"All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the...

The Priesthood of Christ
... Who is sufficient for these things," (2 Corinthians 2:16.) If, therefore, I be not
permitted to disregard the provisions of this Horatianstatute, I must...

The Substance of Some Discourse had Between the Clerk of the Peace...
... But, saith he, you must submit to the laws of the land, and leave off those meetings
which you was wont to have; for thestatute-law is directly against it...

Thesaurus

Statute (63 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) An assemblage of farming servants (held possibly bystatute) for the purpose
of being hired; -- called alsostatute fair....Statute (63 Occurrences)....

Lasting (40 Occurrences)
... the veil, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall dress them from
evening to morning before Jehovah: it is an everlastingstatute, for their...

Perpetual (57 Occurrences)
... long, and of eternity when applied to God; hence, we have, "for perpetual generations"
(Genesis 9:12); "the priesthood by a perpetualstatute" (Exodus 29:9...

Sojourns (18 Occurrences)
... Leviticus 16:29 And it shall be astatute for ever unto you: in the seventh month,
on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and shall do no...

Permanent (19 Occurrences)
... Leviticus 6:22 And the priest who is anointed in his stead, from among his sons,
doth make it, -- astatute age-during of Jehovah: it is completely perfumed...

Dwellings (54 Occurrences)
... Leviticus 3:17 "'It shall be a perpetualstatute throughout your generations in
all your dwellings, that you shall eat neither fat nor blood.'" (WEB KJV JPS...

Statutory (2 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (a.) Enacted bystatute; depending onstatute for its
authority; as, a statutory provision. Multi-Version Concordance...

Sojourneth (27 Occurrences)
... Leviticus 16:29 And this shall be astatute for ever unto you: that in the seventh
month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and do no...

Age-during (167 Occurrences)
... Exodus 12:14 And this day hath become to you a memorial, and ye have kept it a feast
to Jehovah to your generations; -- astatute age-during; ye keep it a feast...

Sojourning (35 Occurrences)
... Leviticus 16:29 And it hath been to you for astatute age-during, in the seventh
month, in the tenth of the month, ye humble yourselves, and do no work -- the...

Resources

Did Moses copy the Law from the Code of Hammurabi? | GotQuestions.org

What was the significance of the bronze laver? | GotQuestions.org

What is a laver in the Bible? | GotQuestions.org

Statute: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com

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Statute (63 Occurrences)

Genesis 47:26
Joseph made it astatute concerning the land of Egypt to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth. Only the land of the priests alone didn't become Pharaoh's.
(WEB JPS ASV YLT NAS RSV)

Exodus 12:14
And this day hath become to you a memorial, and ye have kept it a feast to Jehovah to your generations; -- astatute age-during; ye keep it a feast.
(YLT)

Exodus 12:17
and ye have observed the unleavened things, for in this self-same day I have brought out your hosts from the land of Egypt, and ye have observed this day to your generations -- astatute age-during.
(YLT)

Exodus 12:24
And ye have observed this thing, for astatute to thee, and to thy sons -- unto the age;
(YLT)

Exodus 12:43
And Jehovah saith unto Moses and Aaron, 'This 'is' astatute of the passover; Any son of a stranger doth not eat of it;
(YLT)

Exodus 13:10
and thou hast kept thisstatute at its appointed season from days to days.
(YLT)

Exodus 15:25
Then he cried to Yahweh. Yahweh showed him a tree, and he threw it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet. There he made astatute and an ordinance for them, and there he tested them;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Exodus 28:43
They shall be on Aaron, and on his sons, when they go in to the Tent of Meeting, or when they come near to the altar to minister in the holy place; that they don't bear iniquity, and die: it shall be astatute forever to him and to his descendants after him.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Exodus 29:9
You shall dress them with belts, Aaron and his sons, and bind headbands on them: and they shall have the priesthood by a perpetualstatute: and you shall consecrate Aaron and his sons.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Exodus 29:28
And it shall be Aaron's and his sons' by astatute for ever from the children of Israel: for it is an heave offering: and it shall be an heave offering from the children of Israel of the sacrifice of their peace offerings, even their heave offering unto the LORD.
(KJV DBY WBS YLT)

Exodus 30:21
So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they not die: and it shall be astatute forever to them, even to him and to his descendants throughout their generations."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Leviticus 3:17
"'It shall be a perpetualstatute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that you shall eat neither fat nor blood.'"
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Leviticus 6:18
All the males among the children of Aaron shall eat of it. It shall be astatute for ever in your generations concerning the offerings of the LORD made by fire: every one that toucheth them shall be holy.
(KJV DBY WBS YLT)

Leviticus 6:22
The anointed priest that will be in his place from among his sons shall offer it. By astatute forever, it shall be wholly burnt to Yahweh.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Leviticus 7:34
For the wave breast and the heave shoulder have I taken of the children of Israel from off the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them unto Aaron the priest and unto his sons by astatute for ever from among the children of Israel.
(KJV DBY WBS YLT)

Leviticus 7:36
Which the LORD commanded to be given them of the children of Israel, in the day that he anointed them, by astatute for ever throughout their generations.
(KJV DBY WBS YLT)

Leviticus 10:9
"Drink no wine nor strong drink, you, nor your sons with you, when you go into the Tent of Meeting, that you don't die: it shall be astatute forever throughout your generations:
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Leviticus 10:15
The heave shoulder and the wave breast shall they bring with the offerings made by fire of the fat, to wave it for a wave offering before the LORD; and it shall be thine, and thy sons' with thee, by astatute for ever; as the LORD hath commanded.
(KJV DBY WBS YLT)

Leviticus 16:29
"It shall be astatute to you forever: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and shall do no manner of work, the native-born, or the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you:
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Leviticus 16:31
It is a Sabbath of solemn rest to you, and you shall afflict your souls; it is astatute forever.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Leviticus 16:34
"This shall be an everlastingstatute for you, to make atonement for the children of Israel once in the year because of all their sins." It was done as Yahweh commanded Moses.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Leviticus 17:7
They shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices to the goat idols, after which they play the prostitute. This shall be astatute forever to them throughout their generations.'
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Leviticus 23:14
You shall eat neither bread, nor roasted grain, nor fresh grain, until this same day, until you have brought the offering of your God. This is astatute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Leviticus 23:21
You shall make proclamation on the same day: there shall be a holy convocation to you; you shall do no regular work. This is astatute forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Leviticus 23:31
You shall do no manner of work: it is astatute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Leviticus 23:41
You shall keep it a feast to Yahweh seven days in the year: it is astatute forever throughout your generations; you shall keep it in the seventh month.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Leviticus 24:3
Outside of the veil of the Testimony, in the Tent of Meeting, shall Aaron keep it in order from evening to morning before Yahweh continually: it shall be astatute forever throughout your generations.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Leviticus 24:9
It shall be for Aaron and his sons; and they shall eat it in a holy place: for it is most holy to him of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire by a perpetualstatute."
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Numbers 9:12
They shall leave none of it until the morning, nor break a bone of it. According to all thestatute of the Passover they shall keep it.
(WEB JPS ASV YLT NAS RSV)

Numbers 9:14
"'If a foreigner lives among you, and desires to keep the Passover to Yahweh; according to thestatute of the Passover, and according to its ordinance, so shall he do. You shall have one statute, both for the foreigner, and for him who is born in the land.'"
(WEB JPS ASV YLT NAS RSV)

Numbers 10:8
"The sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets. This shall be to you for astatute forever throughout your generations.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV)

Numbers 15:15
For the assembly, there shall be onestatute for you, and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner with you, a statute forever throughout your generations: as you are, so shall the foreigner be before Yahweh.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV)

Numbers 18:8
And Jehovah spoke to Aaron, And I, behold, I have given thee the charge of my heave-offerings, of all the hallowed things of the children of Israel; to thee have I given them, because of the anointing, and to thy sons by an everlastingstatute.
(DBY YLT)

Numbers 18:11
And this is thine; the heave offering of their gift, with all the wave offerings of the children of Israel: I have given them unto thee, and to thy sons and to thy daughters with thee, by astatute for ever: every one that is clean in thy house shall eat of it.
(KJV DBY WBS YLT)

Numbers 18:19
All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer unto the LORD, have I given thee, and thy sons and thy daughters with thee, by astatute for ever: it is a covenant of salt for ever before the LORD unto thee and to thy seed with thee.
(KJV DBY WBS YLT)

Numbers 18:23
But the Levites shall do the service of the Tent of Meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be astatute forever throughout your generations; and among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Numbers 19:2
"This is thestatute of the law which Yahweh has commanded: Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring you a red heifer without spot, in which is no blemish, and on which never came yoke.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV)

Numbers 19:10
He who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it shall be to the children of Israel, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them, for astatute forever.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Numbers 19:21
It shall be a perpetualstatute to them: and he who sprinkles the water for impurity shall wash his clothes, and he who touches the water for impurity shall be unclean until even.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Numbers 27:11
If his father has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his kinsman who is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it: and it shall be to the children of Israel astatute and ordinance, as Yahweh commanded Moses.'"
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Numbers 31:21
Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who went to the battle, "This is thestatute of the law which Yahweh has commanded Moses:
(WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV)

Numbers 35:29
"'These things shall be for astatute and ordinance to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Joshua 24:25
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made for them astatute and an ordinance in Shechem.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Judges 11:39
and it cometh to pass at the end of two months that she turneth back unto her father, and he doth to her his vow which he hath vowed, and she knew not a man; and it is astatute in Israel:
(YLT)

1 Samuel 30:25
It was so from that day forward, that he made it astatute and an ordinance for Israel to this day.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Chronicles 16:17
He confirmed the same to Jacob for astatute, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant,
(WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV)

2 Chronicles 35:25
and Jeremiah lamenteth for Josiah, and all the singers and the songstresses speak in their lamentations of Josiah unto this day, and set them for astatute on Israel, and lo, they are written beside the lamentations.
(YLT)

Ezra 7:10
For Ezra had set his heart to seek the law of Yahweh, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and ordinances.
(Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Job 28:26
In appointing astatute for the rain, and a way for the thunder's flash:
(DBY)

Job 38:10
And I measure over it Mystatute, And place bar and doors,
(YLT)

Psalms 2:7
I declare concerning astatute: Jehovah said unto me, 'My Son Thou 'art', I to-day have brought thee forth.
(YLT)

Psalms 81:4
For it is astatute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Psalms 81:5
He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out over the land of Egypt, I heard a language that I didn't know.
(See NIV)

Psalms 94:20
Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you, which brings about mischief bystatute?
(WEB JPS ASV YLT RSV)

Psalms 99:7
He spoke to them in the pillar of cloud. They kept his testimonies, thestatute that he gave them.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Psalms 105:10
and confirmed the same to Jacob for astatute; to Israel for an everlasting covenant,
(WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV)

Psalms 122:4
To which the tribes went up, even the tribes of the Lord, for a witness to Israel, to give praise to the name of the Lord.
(See NIV)

Psalms 148:6
And he established them for ever and ever; he made for them astatute which shall not pass.
(DBY YLT)

Isaiah 24:5
The earth also is polluted under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant.
(Root in WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 46:14
And a present thou dost make for it morning by morning, a sixth part of the ephah, and of oil a third part of the hin, to temper with the fine flour, a present to Jehovah, by astatute age-during -- continually;
(YLT)

Daniel 6:7
All the presidents of the kingdom, the deputies and the satraps, the counselors and the governors, have consulted together to establish a royalstatute, and to make a strong decree, that whoever shall ask a petition of any god or man for thirty days, except of you, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Daniel 6:15
Then these men assembled together to the king, and said to the king, Know, O king, that it is a law of the Medes and Persians, that no decree norstatute which the king establishes may be changed.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Zephaniah 2:2
Before the bringing forth of astatute, As chaff hath the day passed on, While yet not come in upon you doth the heat of the anger of Jehovah, While yet not come in upon you doth a day of the anger of Jehovah,
(YLT)

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