Leviticus 26

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

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.

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

Observe my Sabbaths, and be fearful toward my Sanctuary. I am the Lord.

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

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

4 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.

and the ground shall bring forth its seedlings, and the trees shall be filled again with fruit.

5 And your threshing time shall overtake the vintage, and your vintage shall overtake your seed time; and you shall eat your bread to the full; and you shall dwell safely upon your land, and war shall not go through your land.

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.

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

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.

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

You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall down at the sight of you.

8 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.

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.

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

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.

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

You will eat the oldest of what is old, and, when what is new arrives, you will throw away what is old.

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

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

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

I will walk among you, and I 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, where you were slaves; and I broke the band of your yoke, and brought you forth openly.

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.

14 But if you will not listen to me, nor obey these my ordinances,

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

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

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,

16 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 you shall sow your seeds in vain, and your enemies shall eat them.

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.

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

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.

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

But if you will not be obedient to me in this way, then I will add sevenfold to your chastisement, because of your sins.

19 And I will break down the haughtiness of your pride; and I will make your heaven iron, and your earth as it were brass.

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.

20 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.

Your labor will be consumed to no purpose; the land will not bring forth seedlings, nor will the trees provide their fruit.

21 And if after this you should walk perversely, and not be willing to obey me, I will further bring upon you seven plagues according to your sins.

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.

22 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.

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.

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

But if you are not willing to receive discipline in this way, and you still walk as an adversary to me,

24 I also will walk with you with a perverse spirit, and I also will strike you seven times for your sins.

likewise, I will advance against you as an adversary, and I will strike you seven times, because of your sins.

25 And I will bring upon you a sword avenging the cause of [my] covenant, and you shall flee for refuge to your cities; and I will send out death against you, and you shall be delivered into the hands of your enemies.

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.

26 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 you shall eat, and not be satisfied.

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.

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

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

28 then will I walk with you with a froward mind, and I will chasten you sevenfold according to your sins.

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

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

so much so that you will eat the flesh of your sons and your daughters.

30 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.

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:

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

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.

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

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

33 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.

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.

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

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

35 And you 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 you lived in it.

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.

36 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.

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.

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

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.

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

You will perish among the Gentiles, and the land of the enemy will consume you.

39 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.

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,

40 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,

until they confess their iniquities, and those of their ancestors, by which they have transgressed against me and walked as adversaries to me.

41 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.

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.

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

And I will remember my covenant, which I formed with Jacob, and Isaac, and Abraham. I will also remember the land,

43 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.

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.

44 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.

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.

45 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.

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.

46 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.

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.