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.

Ye shall make yourselves no idols, neither rear you up for yourselves carved image, or statue, nor shall ye set up a figured stone in your land, to bow down unto it; for I am Jehovah your God.

2 Keep my Sabbaths and show respect for my sanctuary. I am the Lord.

Ye shall observe my sabbaths, and my sanctuary shall ye reverence: I am Jehovah.

3 If you follow my rules and keep my regulations,

If ye walk in my statutes, and observe 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 I will give your rain in the season thereof, and the land shall yield its produce, 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 shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing-time; and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land securely.

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 the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid; and I will put away the evil beasts out of the land; and the sword shall not go through your land.

7 You will chase your enemies, and kill them with the sword.

And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword;

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 put ten thousand to flight; and your enemies shall fall beside 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 turn my face towards you and make you fruitful, 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 old store, and clear away the old because of the new.

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

And I will set my habitation 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 will be your God, and ye shall be to me a 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 Jehovah your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you walk upright.

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

But if ye hearken not unto me, and do not all these commandments,

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

and if ye shall despise my statutes, and if your soul shall abhor mine ordinances, so that ye do not all my commandments, that ye 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.

I also will do this unto you — I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and fever, which shall cause the eyes to fail, and the soul to waste away; and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

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, that ye may be routed before your enemies; they that hate you shall have dominion over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth 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 for this ye hearken not unto me, I will punish you sevenfold more 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 the arrogance of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as bronze,

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 spent in vain, and your land shall not yield its produce; and the trees of the land shall not yield their 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 ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me, I will bring sevenfold more plagues upon you 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 the beasts of the field among you, that they may rob you of your children, and cut off your cattle, and make you few in number; and your streets shall be desolate.

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

And if ye will not be disciplined by me through these, but walk contrary unto me,

24 then I will take action against you. I will punish you seven times over for your sins.

then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will smite you, even I, sevenfold 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 a sword upon you that avengeth with the vengeance of the covenant, and ye shall be gathered together into your cities, and I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

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 break the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and shall deliver you the bread again 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 for this ye hearken not to me, but walk contrary unto 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 I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven-fold for 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 lay waste your high places, and cut down your sun-pillars, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols; and my soul shall abhor you.

31 I will demolish your towns and destroy your pagan sanctuaries, and I will refuse to accept your sacrifices.

And I will lay waste your cities and desolate your sanctuaries; and I will not smell your sweet odours.

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 bring the land into desolation; that your enemies who dwell there in may be astonished 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 will draw out the sword after you; and your land shall be desolation, and your cities waste.

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 shall the land enjoy its sabbaths all the days of the desolation, when ye are in your enemies' land; then shall the land rest, and enjoy its sabbaths.

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.

All the days of the desolation it shall rest, [the days in] which it did not rest on your sabbaths, when ye dwelt therein.

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 as to those that remain of you — I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, that the sound of a driven leaf shall chase them, and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth;

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 they shall stumble one over another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth; and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.

38 You'll die in exile and you'll be buried in a foreign country.

And ye shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.

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 they that remain of you shall waste away through their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also through the iniquities of their fathers shall they waste away with them.

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 iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, through their unfaithfulness wherein they were unfaithful to me, and also that they have walked contrary unto 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,

so that I also walked contrary unto them, and brought them into the land of their enemies. If then their uncircumcised heart be humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity,

42 then I will fulfill the agreement I made with Jacob, Isaac, and Abraham, and I will not forget my promise about the land.

I will remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.

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.

For the land shall be left by them, and shall enjoy its sabbaths, when it is in desolation without them; and they shall accept the punishment of their iniquity; because, even because they despised my judgments, and their soul abhorred my statutes.

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 for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not despise them, and will not abhor them, to make an end of them utterly, to break my covenant with them, for I am Jehovah 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.”

But I will remember toward them the covenant with their ancestors whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt before the eyes of the nations, that I might be their God: I am Jehovah.

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 the statutes and ordinances and laws which Jehovah made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai, by the hand of Moses.