Leviticus 26

1 “Don't make yourselves idols anywhere in your land and bow down to worship them, whether they are images or sacred pillars or stone sculptures. 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 Keep my Sabbaths and show respect 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 rules and keep my regulations,

If ye will walk in my ordinances, and keep my commandments, and do them,

4 I will make sure it rains at the right time so that the ground will grow good crops and the fruit trees will be productive.

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 time of threshing will last right up to the grape harvest, and the grape harvest until the time you have to sow again. You will have more than enough to eat and you will live in safety 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 I will make sure your land is at peace. You will be able to sleep without being afraid of anything. I will get rid of dangerous animals from the land, and you will not suffer from any violent enemy attacks.

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 chase your enemies, and kill them with the sword.

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

8 Five of you will kill one hundred, and one hundred of you will kill ten thousand. You will destroy your enemies.

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 come to help you, so you will reproduce and increase in numbers, and I will confirm my agreement with you.

And I will look upon you, and increase you, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.

10 You'll still be eating your old stock of grain when you need to get rid of it so you can store the new grain.

And ye shall eat that which is old and very old, and bring forth the old to make way for the new.

11 I will come and live with you—I certainly won't reject you.

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

12 I shall always be right there with you. I will 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 led you out of Egypt so you wouldn't have to be slaves to the Egyptians any longer. I smashed the yoke that kept you bent down and helped you to stand up straight.

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 But if you don't pay attention to me and do what I tell you;

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

15 if you reject my laws, hate my regulations, and refuse to follow my commandments, and consequently break my agreement,

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 am going to do to you: I will make you panic, and suffer from diseases like tuberculosis and fever that make you blind and drain your life away. It will be pointless for you to sow seed in your fields because your enemies will eat the harvest.

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 I will turn against you, and you'll be defeated by your enemies. People who hate you will rule over you, and you'll run away even when there's no one chasing 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 If after all this you still refuse to obey me, I will move to punishing you seven times over 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 your self-reliant strength you're so proud of, and make your sky hard as iron and your land hard as 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 Your strength will be completely wasted because your land won't produce crops, and your trees won't produce 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 go on opposing me and refusing to do what I tell you, I will make your punishments seven times worse, based on 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 to kill your children, wipe out your livestock, and make you so few in number that there won't be anyone on your roads.

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 However, if in spite of all this correction you still don't change but go on opposing me,

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

24 then I will take action against you. I will punish you seven times over 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 I will send enemies with swords to attack you in retaliation for breaking the agreement. Even though you retreat into your towns for defense, I will plague you with disease, and you will be handed over to your enemies.

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 I will send a famine so bread is in short supply. One oven will serve the needs of ten women baking bread. It will be distributed by weight so that you'll eat but won't have enough.

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 However, if in spite of all this you don't obey me, but go on opposing me,

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

28 then I will take action against you in a rage of fury, and I will punish you myself seven times over 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 bodies 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 of worship, smash your altars of incense, and pile up your dead bodies on what remains of your idols, which also have no life at all. I will really 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 demolish your towns and destroy your pagan sanctuaries, and I will refuse to accept 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 I will devastate your land myself, so that your enemies who come and live in it will be horrified at what has happened.

And I will lay your land desolate, and your enemies who dwell in it shall wonder at it.

33 I'm going to scatter you among the nations. You will be chased out by armies with swords as your land is ruined and your towns are destroyed.

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 At least then the land will be able to enjoy its Sabbaths all the time it's abandoned while you are in exile in the land of your enemies. The land will finally be able to rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.

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

35 The whole time it's abandoned the land will observe the Sabbaths of rest that it wasn't able to do while you were living there.

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 I will make those of you who survive so discouraged that as you live in the lands of your enemies even the sound of a leaf blowing in the wind will scare you into running away! You'll run away like you're being chased by someone with a sword, and fall down even though no one is after you.

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 You'll trip over each other as you run away from the attack, then though no one's there. You'll have no power to resist 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'll die in exile and you'll be buried in a foreign country.

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

39 Those of you who do manage to survive in the countries of your enemies will wither away because of their guilt, decaying as they share 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 They need to confess their sins and those of their fathers, acting in such an unfaithful way towards me, opposing 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 Because of this I took action against them and exiled them in the countries of their enemies. However, if they humbly give up their stubborn attitude and accept their punishment for their sins,

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 fulfill the agreement I made with Jacob, Isaac, and Abraham, and I will not forget my promise about 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 left empty by them, and it will enjoy its Sabbaths being abandoned. They will pay for their sins, because they rejected my rules and regulations.

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 But despite all this, even while they are living in land of their enemies, I will not reject or hate them so much as to destroy them and break my agreement with them, because 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 Because of them I will renew the agreement I made with their fathers, those I led out of Egypt as the other nations watched, in order 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 rules, regulations, and laws that the Lord set up 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.