Leviticus 26
1 “You must not make idols for yourselves or set up a carved image or sacred pillar; you must not place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down to it. For I am the LORD your God.
Do not make images of false gods, or put up an image cut in stone or a pillar or any pictured stone in your land, to give worship to it; for I am the Lord your God.
2 You must keep My Sabbaths and have reverence for My sanctuary. I am the LORD.
Keep my Sabbaths and give honour to my holy place: I am the Lord.
3 If you follow My statutes and carefully keep My commandments,
If you are guided by my rules, and keep my laws and do them,
4 I will give you rains in their season, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.
Then I will give you rain at the right time, and the land will give her increase and the trees of the field will give their fruit;
5 Your threshing will continue until the grape harvest, and the grape harvest will continue until sowing time; you will have your fill of food to eat and will dwell securely in your land.
And the crushing of the grain will overtake the cutting of the grapes, and the cutting of the grapes will overtake the planting of the seed, and there will be bread in full measure, and you will be living in your land safely.
6 And I will give peace to the land, and you will lie down with nothing to fear. I will rid the land of dangerous animals, and no sword will pass through your land.
And I will give you peace in the land, and you will take your rest and no one will give you cause for fear; and I will put an end to all evil beasts in the land, and no sword of war will go through your land.
7 You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall by the sword before you.
And you will put to flight those who are against you, and they will be put to death by your swords.
8 Five of you will pursue a hundred, and a hundred of you will pursue ten thousand, and your enemies will fall by the sword before you.
Then five of you will put to flight a hundred, and a hundred of you will put to flight ten thousand, and all who are against you will be put to death by your swords.
9 I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will establish My covenant with you.
And I will have pleasure in you and make you fertile and greater in number; and I will keep my agreement with you.
10 You will still be eating the old supply of grain when you need to clear it out to make room for the new.
And old stores long kept will be your food, and you will take out the old because of the new;
11 And I will make My dwelling place among you, and My soul will not despise you.
And I will put my holy House among you, and my soul will not be turned away from you in disgust.
12 I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be My people.
And I will be present among you and will be your God and you will be my people.
13 I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so that you would no longer be slaves to the Egyptians. I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to walk in uprightness.
I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt so that you might not be servants to them; by me the cords of your yoke were broken and I made you go upright.
14 If, however, you fail to obey Me and to carry out all these commandments,
But if you do not give ear to me, and do not keep all these my laws;
15 and if you reject My statutes, despise My ordinances, and neglect to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant,
And if you go against my rules and if you have hate in your souls for my decisions and you do not do all my orders, but go against my agreement;
16 then this is what I will do to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting disease, and fever that will destroy your sight and drain your life. You will sow your seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.
This will I do to you: I will put fear in your hearts, even wasting disease and burning pain, drying up the eyes and making the soul feeble, and you will get no profit from your seed, for your haters will take it for food.
17 And I will set My face against you, so that you will be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when no one pursues you.
And my face will be turned from you, and you will be broken before those who are against you, and your haters will become your rulers, and you will go in flight when no man comes after you.
18 And if after all this you will not obey Me, I will proceed to punish you sevenfold for your sins.
And if, even after these things, you will not give ear to me, then I will send you punishment seven times more for your sins.
19 I will break down your stubborn pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze,
And the pride of your strength will be broken, and I will make your heaven as iron and your earth as brass;
20 and your strength will be spent in vain. For your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit.
And your strength will be used up without profit; for your land will not give her increase and the trees of the field will not give their fruit.
21 If you walk in hostility toward Me and refuse to obey Me, I will multiply your plagues seven times, according to your sins.
And if you still go against me and will not give ear to me, I will put seven times more punishments on you because of your sins.
22 I will send wild animals against you to rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and reduce your numbers, until your roads lie desolate.
I will let loose the beasts of the field among you, and they will take away your children and send destruction on your cattle, so that your numbers will become small and your roads become waste.
23 And if in spite of these things you do not accept My discipline, but continue to walk in hostility toward Me,
And if by these things you will not be turned to me, but still go against me;
24 then I will act with hostility toward you, and I will strike you sevenfold for your sins.
Then I will go against you, and I will give you punishment, I myself, seven times for all your sins.
25 And I will bring a sword against you to execute the vengeance of the covenant. Though you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague among you, and you will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
And I will send a sword on you to give effect to the punishment of my agreement; and when you come together into your towns I will send disease among you and you will be given up into the hands of your haters.
26 When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.
When I take away your bread of life, ten women will be cooking bread in one oven, and your bread will be measured out by weight; you will have food but never enough.
27 But if in spite of all this you do not obey Me, but continue to walk in hostility toward Me,
And if, after all this, you do not give ear to me, but go against me still,
28 then I will walk in fury against you, and I, even I, will punish you sevenfold for your sins.
Then my wrath will be burning against you, and I will give you punishment, I myself, seven times for your sins.
29 You will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters.
Then you will take the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters for food;
30 I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your lifeless bodies on the lifeless remains of your idols; and My soul will despise you.
And I will send destruction on your high places, overturning your perfume altars, and will put your dead bodies on your broken images, and my soul will be turned from you in disgust.
31 I will reduce your cities to rubble and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will refuse to smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices.
And I will make your towns waste and send destruction on your holy places; I will take no pleasure in the smell of your sweet perfumes;
32 And I will lay waste the land, so that your enemies who dwell in it will be appalled.
And I will make your land a waste, a wonder to your haters living in it.
33 But I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you as your land becomes desolate and your cities are laid waste.
And I will send you out in all directions among the nations, and my sword will be uncovered against you, and your land will be without any living thing, and your towns will be made waste.
34 Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths all the days it lies desolate, while you are in the land of your enemies. At that time the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.
Then will the land take pleasure in its Sabbaths while it is waste and you are living in the land of your haters; then will the land have rest.
35 As long as it lies desolate, the land will have the rest it did not receive during the Sabbaths when you lived in it.
All the days while it is waste will the land have rest, such rest as it never had in your Sabbaths, when you were living in it.
36 As for those of you who survive, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, so that even the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to flight. And they will flee as one flees the sword, and fall when no one pursues them.
And as for the rest of you, I will make their hearts feeble in the land of their haters, and the sound of a leaf moved by the wind will send them in flight, and they will go in flight as from the sword, falling down when no one comes after them;
37 They will stumble over one another as before the sword, though no one is behind them. So you will not be able to stand against your enemies.
Falling on one another, as before the sword, when no one comes after them; you will give way before your haters.
38 You will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will consume you.
And death will overtake you among strange nations, and the land of your haters will be your destruction.
39 Those of you who survive in the lands of your enemies will waste away in their iniquity and will decay in the sins of their fathers.
And those of you who are still living will be wasting away in their sins in the land of your haters; in the sins of their fathers they will be wasting away.
40 But if they will confess their iniquity and that of their fathers in the unfaithfulness that they practiced against Me, by which they have also walked in hostility toward Me—
And they will have grief for their sins and for the sins of their fathers, when their hearts were untrue to me, and they went against me;
41 and I acted with hostility toward them and brought them into the land of their enemies—and if their uncircumcised hearts will be humbled and they will make amends for their iniquity,
So that I went against them and sent them away into the land of their haters: if then the pride of their hearts is broken and they take the punishment of their sins,
42 then I will remember My covenant with Jacob and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.
Then I will keep in mind the agreement which I made with Jacob and with Isaac and with Abraham, and I will keep in mind the land.
43 For the land will be abandoned by them, and it will enjoy its Sabbaths by lying desolate without them. And they will pay the penalty for their iniquity, because they rejected My ordinances and abhorred My statutes.
And the land, while she is without them, will keep her Sabbaths; and they will undergo the punishment of their sins, because they were turned away from my decisions and in their souls was hate for my laws.
44 Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject or despise them so as to destroy them and break My covenant with them; for I am the LORD their God.
But for all that, when they are in the land of their haters I will not let them go, or be turned away from them, or give them up completely; my agreement with them will not be broken, for I am the Lord their God.
45 But for their sake I will remember the covenant with their fathers, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. I am the LORD.”
And because of them I will keep in mind the agreement which I made with their fathers, whom I took out of the land of Egypt before the eyes of the nations, to be their God: I am the Lord.
46 These are the statutes, ordinances, and laws that the LORD established between Himself and the Israelites through Moses on Mount Sinai.
These are the rules, decisions, and laws, which the Lord made between himself and the children of Israel in Mount Sinai, by the hand of Moses.
