Leviticus 18:5

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Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.

Then I gave them My statutes and explained My ordinances to them—the person who does them will live by them.

“You’ve answered correctly,” He told him. “Do this and you will live.”

For Moses writes about the righteousness that is from the law: The one who does these things will live by them.

But the law is not based on faith; instead, the one who does these things will live by them.

Then God spoke to Moses, telling him, “I am Yahweh.

“Because I, Yahweh, have not changed, you descendants of Jacob have not been destroyed.

You must keep all My statutes and all My ordinances and do them; I am Yahweh.”

“You are to keep My commands and do them; I am Yahweh.

“If you follow My statutes and faithfully observe My commands,

Righteousness will be ours if we are careful to follow every one of these commands before the Lord our God, as He has commanded us.’

For they are not meaningless words to you but they are your life, and by them you will live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”

and I died. The commandment that was meant for life resulted in death for me.