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: you shall not make to yourselves any idol or graven thing, neither shall you erect pillars, nor set up a remarkable stone in your land, to adore 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 reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.
3 If you follow My statutes and carefully keep My commandments,
If you walk in my precepts, and keep my commandments, and do them, I will give you rein in due seasons.
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.
And the ground shall bring forth its increase, and the trees shall be filled with 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.
The threshing of your harvest shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and you shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land without fear.
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.
I will give peace in your coasts: you shall sleep, and there shall be none to make you afraid. I will take away evil beasts: and the sword shall not pass through your quarters.
7 You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall by the sword before you.
You shall pursue your enemies, and they shall fall before you.
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.
Five of yours shall pursue a hundred others, and a hundred of you ten thousand: 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.
I will look on you, and make you increase: you shell be multiplied, and I will 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.
You shall eat the oldest of the old store, and, new coming on, you shall cast away the old.
11 And I will make My dwelling place among you, and My soul will not despise you.
I will set my tabernacle in the midst of you, and my soul shall not cast you off.
12 I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be My people.
I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you 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 have brought you out of the land of the Egyptians, that you should not serve them, and who have broken the chains of your necks, that you might go upright.
14 If, however, you fail to obey Me and to carry out all these commandments,
But if you will not hear me, nor do all my commandments,
15 and if you reject My statutes, despise My ordinances, and neglect to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant,
If you despise my laws, and contemn my judgments so as not to do those things which are appointed by me, and to make void 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.
I also will do these things to you: I will quickly visit you with poverty, and burning heat, which shall waste your eyes, and consume your lives. You shall sow your seed in vain, which shall be devoured by your enemies.
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.
I will set my face against you, and you shall fall down before your enemies, and shall be made subject to them that hate you, you shall flee when no man pursueth you.
18 And if after all this you will not obey Me, I will proceed to punish you sevenfold for your sins.
But if you will not yet for all this obey me: I will chastise you 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 I will break the pride of your stubbornness, and I will make to you the heaven above as iron, and the 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.
Your labour shall be spent in vain, the ground shall not bring forth her increase, nor the trees yield 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.
If you walk contrary to me, and will not hearken to me, I will bring seven times more plagues upon you for 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 in upon you the beasts of the held, to destroy you and your cattle, and make you few in number, and that your highways may 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 even so you will not amend, but will walk contrary to me:
24 then I will act with hostility toward you, and I will strike you sevenfold for your sins.
I also will walk contrary to you, and will strike 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 in upon you the sword that shall avenge my covenant. And when you shall flee into the cities, I will send the pestilence in the midst of you, and you 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.
After I shall have broken the staff of your bread: so that ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and give it out by weight: and you shall eat, and shall not be filled.
27 But if in spite of all this you do not obey Me, but continue to walk in hostility toward Me,
But if you will not for all this hearken to me, but will walk against me:
28 then I will walk in fury against you, and I, even I, will punish you sevenfold for your sins.
I will also go against you with opposite fury, and I will chastise you with seven plagues for your sins,
29 You will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters.
So that you shall eat the flesh of your sons and of your daughters.
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.
I will destroy your high places, and break your idols. You shall fall among the ruins of your idols, and my soul shall abhor 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.
Insomuch that I will bring your cities to be a wilderness, and I will make your sanctuaries desolate, and will receive no more your sweet odours.
32 And I will lay waste the land, so that your enemies who dwell in it will be appalled.
And I will destroy your land, and your enemies shall be astonished at it, when they shall be the inhabitants thereof.
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 Gentiles, and I will draw out the sword after you, and your land shall be desert, and your cities destroyed.
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 shall the land enjoy her sabbaths all the days of her desolation: when you shall be
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.
In the enemy’s land, she shall keep a sabbath, and rest in the sabbaths of her desolation, because she did not rest in your sabbaths when you dwelt therein.
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 to them that shall remain of you I will send fear in their hearts in the countries of their enemies, the sound of a flying leaf shall terrify them, and they shall flee as it were from the sword: they shall fall, when no man pursueth 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 they shall every one fall upon their brethren as fleeing from wars, none of you shall dare to resist your enemies.
38 You will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will consume you.
You shall perish among the Gentiles, and an enemy’s land shall consume 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 if of them also some remain, they shall pine away in their iniquities, in the land of their enemies, and they shall be afflicted for the sins of their fathers, and their own:
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—
Until they confess their iniquities and the iniquities of their ancestors, whereby they have transgressed me, and walked contrary unto 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,
Therefore I also will walk them, and bring them into their enemies’ land until their uncircumcised mind be ashamed: then shall they pray for 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 my covenant, that I made with Jacob, and Isaac, and Abraham. I will remember also 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.
Which when she shall be left by them, shall enjoy her sabbaths, being desolate for them. But they shall pray for their sins, because they rejected my judgments, and despised 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.
And yet for all that when they were in the land of their enemies, I did not cast them off altogether, neither did I so despise them that they should be quite consumed, and I should make void my covenant 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 my former covenant, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, in the sight of the Gentiles, 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 judgments, and precepts, and laws, which the Lord gave between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.
