Leviticus 26
1 “You do not make idols for yourselves; and you do not set up carved image or standing image for yourselves; and you do not put a stone of imagery in your land, to bow yourselves to it; for I [am] your God YHWH.
“You must make no idols, and you must not lift up a carved figure or a sacred stone pillar, and you must not place any carved stone image in your land to which you bow down, for I am Yahweh your God.
2 You keep My Sabbaths and you revere My sanctuary; I [am] YHWH.
You must keep my Sabbaths and honor my sanctuary. I am Yahweh.
3 If you walk in My statutes, and you keep My commands, and have done them,
If you walk in my laws and keep my commandments and obey them,
4 then I have given your rains in their season, and the land has given her produce, and the tree of the field gives its fruit;
then I will give you rain in its season; the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will yield their fruit.
5 and the threshing has reached to you, [and] the gathering, and the gathering reaches the sowing-[time]; and you have eaten your bread to satiety, and have dwelt confidently in your land.
Your threshing will continue to the time of the grape harvest, and the grape harvest will extend to the planting season. You will eat your bread to the full and live safely where you make your home in the land.
6 And I have given peace in the land, and you have lain down, and there is none causing trembling; and I have caused evil beasts to cease out of the land, and the sword does not pass over into your land.
I will give peace in the land; you will lie down with nothing to make you afraid. I will take the dangerous animals away from the land, and the sword will not pass through your land.
7 And you have pursued your enemies, and they have fallen before you by the sword;
You will chase your enemies, and they will fall before you by the sword.
8 and five of you have pursued one hundred, and one hundred of you pursue a myriad; and your enemies have fallen before you by the sword.
Five of you will chase away a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand; your enemies will fall before you by the sword.
9 And I have turned to you, and have made you fruitful, and have multiplied you, and have established My covenant with you;
I will look at you with favor and make you fruitful and multiply you; I will establish my covenant with you.
10 and you have eaten old [store], and you bring out the old because of the new.
You will eat food stored a long time. You will have to bring out the stored food because you will need the room for the new harvest.
11 And I have given My Dwelling Place in your midst, and My soul does not loathe you;
I will place my tabernacle among you, and I will not detest you.
12 and I have habitually walked in your midst, and have become your God, and you become My people;
I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be my people.
13 I [am] your God YHWH, who has brought you out of the land of the Egyptians, from being their servants; and I break the bars of your yoke and cause you to go erect.
I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, so that you would not be their slaves. I have broken the bars of your yoke and made you to walk standing up straight.
14 And if you do not listen to Me and do not do all these commands,
But if you will not listen to me, and will not obey all these commandments,
15 and if you kick at My statutes, and if your soul loathes My judgments, so as not to do all My commands—to your breaking My covenant—
and if you reject my decrees and detest my laws, so that you will not obey all my commandments, but break my covenant—
16 I also do this to you: I have even appointed trouble over you, the consumption, and the burning fever, consuming eyes, and causing pain of soul; and you have sowed your seed in vain, and your enemies have eaten it;
—if you do these things, then I will do this to you: I will inflict terror on you, diseases and fever that will destroy the eyes and will drain away your life. You will plant your seeds for nothing, because your enemies will eat their produce.
17 and I have set My face against you, and you have been struck before your enemies; and those hating you have ruled over you, and you have fled when there is none pursuing you.
I will set my face against you, and you will be overpowered by your enemies. Men who hate you will rule over you, and you will run away, even when no one is chasing you.
18 And if up to these you [still] do not listen to Me—then I have added to discipline you sevenfold for your sins;
If after all this you do not listen to me, then I will punish you seven times as severely for your sins.
19 and I have broken the pride of your strength, and have made your heavens as iron, and your earth as bronze;
I will break your pride in your power. I will make the sky over you like iron and your land like bronze.
20 and your strength has been consumed in vain, and your land does not give her produce, and the tree of the land does not give its fruit.
Your strength will be used up for nothing, because your land will not produce its harvest, and your trees in the land will not produce their fruit.
21 And if you walk with Me [in] opposition, and are not willing to listen to Me, then I have added to you a plague sevenfold, according to your sins,
If you walk against me and will not listen to me, I will bring seven times more blows on you, in proportion to your sins.
22 and sent the beast of the field against you, and it has bereaved you; and I have cut off your livestock, and have made you few, and your ways have been desolate.
I will send dangerous animals against you, which will steal your children, destroy your cattle, and make you few in number. So your roads will become deserted.
23 And if by these you are not instructed by Me, and have walked with Me [in] opposition,
If in spite of these things you still do not accept my correction and you continue to walk in opposition to me,
24 then I have walked—I also—with you in opposition, and have struck you, even I, sevenfold for your sins;
then I will also walk in opposition to you, and I myself will punish you seven times because of your sins.
25 and I have brought in a sword on you, executing the vengeance of a covenant; and you have been gathered to your cities, and I have sent pestilence into your midst, and you have been given into the hand of an enemy.
I will bring a sword on you that will execute vengeance for breaking the covenant. You will be gathered together inside your cities, and I will send a disease among you there, and then you will be delivered into the hand of your enemy.
26 In My breaking your staff of bread, then ten women have baked your bread in one oven, and have given back your bread by weight; and you have eaten and are not satisfied.
When I cut off your food supply, ten women will be able to bake your bread in one oven, and they will distribute your bread by weight. You will eat but not be satisfied.
27 And if for this you do not listen to Me, and have walked with Me in opposition,
If you do not listen to me despite these things, but continue to walk against me,
28 then I have walked with you in the fury of opposition, and have disciplined you, even I, sevenfold for your sins.
then I will walk against you in anger, and I will punish you even seven more times as much for your sins.
29 And you have eaten [the] flesh of your sons; and you eat [the] flesh of your daughters.
You will eat the flesh of your sons; you will eat the flesh of your daughters.
30 And I have destroyed your high places, and cut down your images, and have put your carcasses on the carcasses of your idols, and My soul has loathed you;
I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and throw your corpses on the corpses of your idols, and I myself will abhor you.
31 and I have made your cities a ruin, and have made your sanctuaries desolate, and I do not smell your refreshing fragrance;
I will turn your cities into ruins and destroy your sanctuaries. I will not be pleased with the aroma of your offerings.
32 and I have made the land desolate, and your enemies who are dwelling in it have been astonished at it.
I will devastate the land. Your enemies who will live there will be shocked at the devastation.
33 And I scatter you among nations, and have drawn out a sword after you, and your land has been a desolation, and your cities are a ruin.
I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out my sword and follow you. Your land will be abandoned, and your cities will be ruined.
34 Then the land enjoys its Sabbaths all the days of the desolation—and you [are] in the land of your enemies; then the land rests, and has enjoyed its Sabbaths;
Then the land will enjoy its Sabbaths for as long as it lies abandoned and you are in your enemies' lands. During that time, the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.
35 it rests all the days of the desolation [for] that which it has not rested in your Sabbaths, in your dwelling on it.
As long as it lies abandoned, it will have rest, which will be the rest that it did not have with your Sabbaths, when you lived in it.
36 And those who are left of you—I have also brought a faintness into their heart in the lands of their enemies, and the sound of a leaf driven away has pursued them, and they have fled [as in] flight from a sword—and they have fallen, and there is none pursuing.
As for those of you who are left in your enemies' lands, I will send fear into your hearts so that even the sound of a leaf blowing in the wind will startle you, and you will flee as though you were fleeing from the sword. You will fall, even when no one is chasing you.
37 And they have stumbled on one another, as from the face of a sword, and there is none pursuing, and you have no standing before your enemies,
You will stumble over each other as though you were running from the sword, even though no one is chasing you. You will have no power to stand before your enemies.
38 and you have perished among the nations, and the land of your enemies has consumed you.
You will perish among the nations, and your enemies' land will itself devour you.
39 And those who are left of you—they consume away in their iniquity, in the lands of your enemies; and also in the iniquities of their fathers, they consume away with them.
Those who are left among you will waste away in their sins, there in your enemies' lands, and because of their fathers' sins they will waste away as well.
40 And [if] they have confessed their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they have trespassed against Me, and also that they have walked with Me in opposition,
Yet if they confess their sins and their fathers' sin, and their treason by which they were unfaithful to me, and also their walking against me—
41 when I also walk in opposition to them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies—if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and then they accept the punishment of their iniquity—
which caused me to turn against them and I brought them into the land of their enemies—if their uncircumcised hearts become humbled, and if they accept the punishment for their sins,
42 then I have remembered My covenant [with] Jacob, and also My covenant [with] Isaac, and also My covenant [with] Abraham I remember, and I remember the land.
then will I call to mind my covenant with Jacob, my covenant with Isaac, and my covenant with Abraham; also, I will call the land to mind.
43 And the land is left by them, and enjoys its Sabbaths, in the desolation without them, and they accept the punishment of their iniquity, because, even because, they have kicked against My judgments, and their soul has loathed My statutes,
The land will be abandoned by them, so it will be pleased with its Sabbaths while it lies abandoned without them. They will have to pay the penalty for their sins because they themselves rejected my decrees and detested my laws.
44 and also even this, in their being in the land of their enemies, I have not rejected them, nor have I loathed them, to consume them, to break My covenant with them; for I [am] their God YHWH—
Yet despite all this, when they are in their enemies' land, I will not reject them, neither will I detest them so as to completely destroy them and do away with my covenant with them, for I am Yahweh their God.
45 then I have remembered for them the covenant of the ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt before the eyes of the nations to become their God; I [am] YHWH.”
But for their sakes I will call to mind the covenant with their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, so that I might be their God. I am Yahweh.”
46 These [are] the statutes, and the judgments, and the laws, which YHWH has given between Him and the sons of Israel in Mount Sinai, by the hand of Moses.
These are the commandments, decrees, and laws that Yahweh made between himself and the people of Israel at Mount Sinai through Moses.
