Leviticus 26

1 I am the Lord your God. You shall not make for yourselves an idol or a graven image. Neither shall you erect a monument, or set up a conspicuous stone in your land, in order that you may adore 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 Observe my Sabbaths, and be fearful toward my Sanctuary. I am the Lord.

Keep my Sabbaths and give honour to my holy place: I am the Lord.

3 If you will walk in my precepts, and observe my commandments, and accomplish them, I will give to you rain in its time,

If you are guided by my rules, and keep my laws and do them,

4 and the ground shall bring forth its seedlings, and the trees shall be filled again with 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 The threshing of the harvest shall last until the vintage, and the vintage shall overtake the sowing. And you shall eat your bread to fullness, and you shall live in your land without fear.

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 I will give peace to your most distant regions. You will sleep, and there will be no one to strike you with terror. I will take away harmful wild beasts, and the sword will not cross your borders.

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 down at the sight of 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 yours will pursue a hundred foreigners, and a hundred of you will pursue ten thousand. Your enemies will fall by the sword in your sight.

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 look with favor upon you, and I will cause you to increase; you will be multiplied, and I will confirm 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 eat the oldest of what is old, and, when what is new arrives, you will throw away what is old.

And old stores long kept will be your food, and you will take out the old because of the new;

11 I will set my tabernacle in your midst, and my soul will not cast you out.

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 I will be your God, and you shall 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 led you away from the land of the Egyptians, lest you serve them, and who broke the chains around your necks, so that you would walk upright.

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 But if you will not listen to me, nor accomplish all of my commandments,

But if you do not give ear to me, and do not keep all these my laws;

15 if you despise my laws, and disdain my judgments, so that you do not accomplish those things which have been established by me, and so that you lead my covenant away into nullification,

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 I also will do these things to you. I will quickly visit you with destitution, and burning heat, which will waste away your eyes, and consume your lives. In vain will you sow your seed, which will be devoured by your enemies.

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 I will set my face against you, and you will fall down before your enemies, and you will be subjugated to those who hate you. You will flee, though no one pursues.

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 But if you will not be obedient to me in this way, then I will add sevenfold to your chastisement, because of 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 And I will crush the pride in your hardness, and I will give to you heaven above like iron, and the earth below like brass.

And the pride of your strength will be broken, and I will make your heaven as iron and your earth as brass;

20 Your labor will be consumed to no purpose; the land will not bring forth seedlings, nor will the trees provide 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 as an adversary to me, and if you are not willing to listen to me, I will add sevenfold to your plagues, because of 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 And I will send upon you the wild beasts of the field, which will consume you and your cattle, and which will reduce everything to paucity, and cause your roadways to become 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 But if you are not willing to receive discipline in this way, and you still walk as an adversary to me,

And if by these things you will not be turned to me, but still go against me;

24 likewise, I will advance against you as an adversary, and I will strike you seven times, because of 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 lead over you the sword that shall avenge my covenant. And when you will have fled into the cities, I will send a pestilence into your midst, and you will be delivered into the hands of your enemies.

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 After this, I will have broken the staff of your bread, so that ten women bake bread in one oven, and distribute it by weight. And you shall eat and not be filled.

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 Then, if you will not listen to me through these things, and you still walk against me,

And if, after all this, you do not give ear to me, but go against me still,

28 then I also will advance against you, with an opposing fury, and I will chastise you with seven plagues, because of your sins:

Then my wrath will be burning against you, and I will give you punishment, I myself, seven times for your sins.

29 so much so that you will eat the flesh of your sons and your 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, and I will break apart your false images. You will fall among the ruins of your idols, and my soul will abominate 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 so much so that I will reduce your cities to a wilderness, and I will make your Sanctuaries desolate, and I will no longer accept the most sweet odors.

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 utterly ruin your land, and your enemies shall be stupefied at it, when they will have become its inhabitants.

And I will make your land a waste, a wonder to your haters living in it.

33 Then I will scatter you among the Gentiles, and I will unsheathe the sword after you. And your land will be deserted, and your cities will be demolished.

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 will be pleased by her Sabbaths, throughout all the days of her solitude. So, while you will be

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 in the land of the enemy, she will worship and rest in the Sabbath of her solitude, because she will not have rested in your Sabbaths, when you lived in her.

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 And whoever of you will remain, I will send terror into their hearts in the regions of their enemies. The sound of a flying leaf will terrify them, and so they will flee, as if from the sword. They will fall, though no one pursues.

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 And they will each fall upon their brothers, as if they were fleeing from wars; no one among you will dare to resist your foes.

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 Gentiles, and the land of the enemy will consume you.

And death will overtake you among strange nations, and the land of your haters will be your destruction.

39 But if some few of these still remain, they shall waste away in their iniquities, in the land of their enemies, and they will be afflicted, because of the sins of their fathers and their own sins,

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 until they confess their iniquities, and those of their ancestors, by which they have transgressed against me and walked as adversaries to 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 Therefore, I also will walk against them, and I will lead them into a hostile land, until their uncircumcised mind shall be ashamed. Then shall they pray on behalf of their impiety.

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 And I will remember my covenant, which I formed with Jacob, and Isaac, and Abraham. I will also 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 which, when she will be left behind by them, shall be pleased by her Sabbaths, enduring solitude because of them. Yet truly, they shall pray for their sins, because they cast aside my judgments, and they despised my laws.

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 And even after so much, when they were in the land of their enemy, I did not cast them off entirely, and I did not so despise them that they would be consumed, nor so that I would nullify 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 And I will remember my original covenant, when I led them away from the land of Egypt, in the sight of the Gentiles, so as to 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 judgments, and precepts, and laws, which the Lord has granted between himself and the sons of Israel, on mount Sinai, by the hand of Moses.

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.