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.

I [am] the Lord your God: ye shall not make to yourselves gods made with hands, or graven; neither shall ye rear up a pillar for yourselves, neither shall ye set up a stone [for] an object in your land to worship it: I am the Lord your God.

2 You must keep My Sabbaths and have reverence for My sanctuary. I am the LORD.

Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuaries: I am the Lord.

3 If you follow My statutes and carefully keep My commandments,

If ye will walk in my ordinances, and keep my commandments, 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 will I give you the rain in its season, and the land shall produce its fruits, and the trees of the field shall yield 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 your threshing time shall overtake the vintage, and your vintage shall overtake your seed time; and ye shall eat your bread to the full; and ye shall dwell safely upon your land, and war shall not go through your land.

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 peace in your land, and ye shall sleep, and none [shall] make you afraid; and I will destroy the evil beasts out of your land,

7 You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall by the sword before you.

and ye shall pursue your enemies, and they shall fall before you with slaughter.

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.

And five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase tens of thousands; and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.

9 I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will establish My covenant with you.

And I will look upon you, and increase you, and multiply you, and establish my covenant 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 ye shall eat that which is old and very old, and bring forth the old to make way for the new.

11 And I will make My dwelling place among you, and My soul will not despise you.

And I will set my tabernacle among you, and my soul shall not abhor you;

12 I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be My people.

and I will walk among you, and be your God, and ye shall 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 brought you out of the land of Egypt, where ye were slaves; and I broke the band of your yoke, and brought you forth openly.

14 If, however, you fail to obey Me and to carry out all these commandments,

But if ye will not hearken to me, nor obey these my ordinances,

15 and if you reject My statutes, despise My ordinances, and neglect to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant,

but disobey them, and your soul should loathe my judgments, so that ye should not keep all my commands, so as to break my covenant,

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.

then will I do thus to you: I will even bring upon you perplexity and the itch, and the fever that causes your eyes to waste away, and [disease] that consumes your life; and ye shall sow your seeds in vain, and your enemies shall eat them.

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 I will set my face against you, and ye shall fall before your enemies, and they that hate you shall pursue you; and ye shall flee, no one pursuing you.

18 And if after all this you will not obey Me, I will proceed to punish you sevenfold for your sins.

And if ye still refuse to hearken to me, then will I chasten you yet more even seven times for your sins.

19 I will break down your stubborn pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze,

And I will break down the haughtiness of your pride; and I will make your heaven iron, and your earth as it were 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 shall be in vain; and your land shall not yield its seed, and the tree of your field shall not yield its 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 after this ye should walk perversely, and not be willing to obey me, I will further bring upon you seven plagues according to 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.

And I will send upon you the wild beasts of the land, and they shall devour you, and shall consume your cattle: and I will make you few in number, and your ways shall be desolate.

23 And if in spite of these things you do not accept My discipline, but continue to walk in hostility toward Me,

And if hereupon ye are not corrected, but walk perversely towards me,

24 then I will act with hostility toward you, and I will strike you sevenfold for your sins.

I also will walk with you with a perverse spirit, and I also will smite you seven times for 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 bring upon you a sword avenging the cause of [my] covenant, and ye shall flee for refuge to your cities; and I will send out death against you, and ye shall be delivered into the hands of your enemies.

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 afflict you with famine of bread, then ten women shall bake your loaves in one oven, and they shall render your loaves by weight; and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.

27 But if in spite of all this you do not obey Me, but continue to walk in hostility toward Me,

And if hereupon ye will not obey me, but walk perversely towards me,

28 then I will walk in fury against you, and I, even I, will punish you sevenfold for your sins.

then will I walk with you with a froward mind, and I will chasten you seven-fold according to your sins.

29 You will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters.

And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.

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 render your pillars desolate, and will utterly destroy your wooden [images] made with hands; and I will lay your carcases on the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall loathe you.

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 lay your cities waste, and I will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell the savour of your sacrifices.

32 And I will lay waste the land, so that your enemies who dwell in it will be appalled.

And I will lay your land desolate, and your enemies who dwell in it shall wonder at 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 scatter you among the nations, and the sword shall come upon you and consume you; and your land shall be desolate, and your cities shall be desolate.

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 the land shall enjoy its sabbaths all the days of its desolation.

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.

And ye shall be in the land of your enemies; then the land shall keep its sabbaths, and the land shall enjoy its sabbaths all the days of its desolation: it shall keep sabbaths which it kept not among your sabbaths, when ye dwelt 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 to those who are left of you I will bring bondage into their heart in the land of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them, and they shall flee as fleeing from war, and shall fall when none pursues 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.

And brother shall disregard brother as in war, when none pursues; and ye shall not be able to withstand your enemies.

38 You will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will consume you.

And ye shall perish among the Gentiles, and the land of your enemies shall devour you.

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 who are left of you shall perish, because of their sins, and because of the sins of their fathers: in the land of their enemies shall they consume 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 shall confess their sins, and the sins of their fathers, that they have transgressed and neglected me, and that they have walked perversely before 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,

and I walked with them with a perverse mind; and I will destroy them in the land of their enemies: then shall their uncircumcised heart be ashamed, and then shall they acquiesce in [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.

And I will remember the covenant of Jacob, and the covenant of Isaac, and the covenant of Abraam will I remember.

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 I will remember the land, and the land shall be left of them; then the land shall enjoy her sabbaths, when it is deserted through them: and they shall accept [the punishment of] their iniquities, because they neglected my judgments, and in their soul loathed my ordinances.

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.

And yet not even thus, while they were in the land of their enemies, did I overlook them, nor did I loathe them so as to consume them, to break my covenant made with them; 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 I will remember their former covenant, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage before the nation, 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 my judgments and my ordinances, and the law which the Lord gave between himself and the children of Israel, in the mount Sina, by the hand of Moses.