חֻקָּה
chuq.qah (H2708)
statute
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# The Hebrew Word חֻקָּה (chuqqah): Statute The Hebrew term *chuqqah* appears 104 times throughout the Hebrew Bible and is translated as "statute." Based on its frequency and distribution across the biblical text, this word denotes a formal decree or established rule—a binding prescription rather than a casual guideline. The substantial number of occurrences (104) indicates that statutes were a central concern in biblical literature, particularly in legal and religious contexts where authoritative commands needed clear expression. The term's consistent translation as "statute" across all 104 instances suggests a stable semantic range focused on prescriptive rules that carry authority. These would typically include divine commandments, legal ordinances, and ceremonial requirements recorded in biblical law codes. The very fact that this single word was used repeatedly across different biblical books and genres—from legal material to narrative and wisdom literature—demonstrates that statutes represented a fundamental category of binding obligation in ancient Israelite thought and practice. The prevalence of *chuqqah* in the biblical corpus underscores the importance of codified, authoritative rules in the religious and social organization of ancient Israel. Its consistent use across 104 passages reveals that biblical writers regularly invoked this concept when establishing norms that were meant to regulate behavior and maintain community standards, whether those norms pertained to worship, social conduct, or ceremonial practice.
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because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”
This day shall be a memorial for you. You shall keep it as a feast to Yahweh. You shall keep it as a feast throughout your generations by an ordinance forever.
You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this same day I have brought your armies out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations by an ordinance forever.
Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the ordinance of the Passover. No foreigner shall eat of it,
You shall therefore keep this ordinance in its season from year to year.
In the Tent of Meeting, outside the veil which is before the covenant, Aaron and his sons shall keep it in order from evening to morning before Yahweh: it shall be a statute forever throughout their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.
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. This shall be a statute forever to him and to his offspring after him.
You shall clothe them with belts, Aaron and his sons, and bind headbands on them. They shall have the priesthood by a perpetual statute. You shall consecrate Aaron and his sons.
“ ‘It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that you shall eat neither fat nor blood.’ ”
which Yahweh commanded to be given them of the children of Israel, in the day that he anointed them. It is their portion forever throughout their generations.
“You and your sons are not to drink wine or strong drink whenever you go into the Tent of Meeting, or you will die. This shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.
“It shall be a statute to you forever: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and shall do no kind of work, whether native-born or a stranger who lives as a foreigner among you;
It is a Sabbath of solemn rest to you, and you shall afflict your souls. It is a statute forever.
“This shall be an everlasting statute 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.
They shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices to the goat idols, after which they play the prostitute. This shall be a statute forever to them throughout their generations.’
You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived. You shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you. You shall not follow their statutes.
You shall do my ordinances. You shall keep my statutes and walk in them. I am Yahweh your God.
You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances, which if a man does, he shall live in them. I am Yahweh.
You therefore shall keep my statutes and my ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the native-born, nor the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you
Therefore you shall keep my requirements, that you do not practice any of these abominable customs which were practiced before you, and that you do not defile yourselves with them. I am Yahweh your God.’ ”
“ ‘You shall keep my statutes. “ ‘You shall not cross-breed different kinds of animals. “ ‘You shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed; “ ‘Don’t wear a garment made of two kinds of material.
“ ‘You shall observe all my statutes and all my ordinances, and do them. I am Yahweh.’ ”
You shall keep my statutes, and do them. I am Yahweh who sanctifies you.
“ ‘You shall therefore keep all my statutes and all my ordinances, and do them, that the land where I am bringing you to dwell may not vomit you out.
You shall not walk in the customs of the nation which I am casting out before you; for they did all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.
You must not eat bread, or roasted grain, or fresh grain, until this same day, until you have brought the offering of your God. This is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
You shall make proclamation on the same day that there shall be a holy convocation to you. You shall do no regular work. This is a statute forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
You shall do no kind of work: it is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
You shall keep it as a feast to Yahweh seven days in the year. It is a statute forever throughout your generations. You shall keep it in the seventh month.
Outside of the veil of the Testimony, in the Tent of Meeting, Aaron shall keep it in order from evening to morning before Yahweh continually. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.
“ ‘Therefore you shall do my statutes, and keep my ordinances and do them; and you shall dwell in the land in safety.
“ ‘If you walk in my statutes and keep my commandments, and do them,
and if you shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhors my ordinances, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant,
The land also will be left by them, and will enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them; and they will accept the punishment of their iniquity because they rejected my ordinances, and their soul abhorred my statutes.
On the fourteenth day of this month, at evening, you shall keep it in its appointed season. You shall keep it according to all its statutes and according to all its ordinances.”
They shall leave none of it until the morning, nor break a bone of it. According to all the statute of the Passover they shall keep it.
“ ‘If a foreigner lives among you, and desires to keep the Passover to Yahweh, then he shall do so according to the statute of the Passover, and according to its ordinance. You shall have one statute, both for the foreigner, and for him who is born in the land.’ ”
“The sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets. This shall be to you for a statute forever throughout your generations.
For the assembly, there shall be one statute for you and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner, a statute forever throughout your generations. As you are, so the foreigner shall be before Yahweh.
But the Levites shall do the service of the Tent of Meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations. Among the children of Israel, they shall have no inheritance.
“This is the statute of the law which Yahweh has commanded. Tell the children of Israel to bring you a red heifer without spot, in which is no defect, and which was never yoked.
He who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. It shall be to the children of Israel, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them, for a statute forever.
It shall be a perpetual statute to them. He who sprinkles the water for impurity shall wash his clothes, and he who touches the water for impurity shall be unclean until evening.
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. This shall be a statute and ordinance for the children of Israel, as Yahweh commanded Moses.’ ”
Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who went to the battle, “This is the statute of the law which Yahweh has commanded Moses:
“ ‘These things shall be for a statute and ordinance to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
that you might fear Yahweh your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you—you, your son, and your son’s son, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged.
Beware lest you forget Yahweh your God, in not keeping his commandments, his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command you today;
to keep Yahweh’s commandments and statutes, which I command you today for your good?
Therefore you shall love Yahweh your God, and keep his instructions, his statutes, his ordinances, and his commandments, always.
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