Leviticus 26

1 "'You shall make for yourselves no idols, neither shall you raise up an engraved image or a pillar, neither shall you place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to 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 "'You shall keep my Sabbaths, and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am the LORD.

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

3 "'If you walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;

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

4 then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their 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 Your threshing shall reach to the vintage, and the vintage shall reach to the sowing time; and you shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.

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 in the land, and you shall lie down, and no one will make you afraid; and I will remove evil animals out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.

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 shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.

And you will put to flight those who are against you, and they will be put to death by your swords.

8 Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand; and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.

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 have respect for you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and will establish 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 shall eat old store long kept, and you shall move out the old because of the new.

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

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

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 will be your God, and you will 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 brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves; and I have broken the bars of your yoke, and made you go 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, and will not do all these commandments;

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

15 and if you shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhors my ordinances, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant;

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 I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away; and you will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.

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 be struck before your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you; and you will flee when no one pursues you.

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 "'If you in spite of these things will not listen to me, then I will chastise you seven times more for 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 I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron, and your soil like bronze;

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

20 and your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won't yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield 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 contrary to me, and won't listen to me, then I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to 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 I will send the wild animals among you, which will rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number; and your roads will 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 "'If by these things you won't be reformed to me, but will walk contrary to me;

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

24 then I will also walk contrary to you; and I will strike you, even I, seven times for your sins.

Then I will go against you, and I will give you punishment, I myself, seven times for all your sins.

25 I will bring a sword upon you, that will execute the vengeance of the covenant; and you will be gathered together within your cities: and I will send the pestilence among you; and you will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

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 When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight: and you shall eat, and not be satisfied.

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 "'If you in spite of this won't listen to me, but walk contrary to me;

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

28 then I will walk contrary to you in wrath; and I also will chastise you seven times for your sins.

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

29 You will eat the flesh of your sons, and you will eat the flesh of 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 cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor 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 I will lay your cities waste, and will bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not take delight in the sweet fragrance of your offerings.

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 I will bring the land into desolation; and your enemies that dwell in it will be astonished at it.

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

33 I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you: and your land will be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.

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 enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies' land. Even then the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths.

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 As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it did not have in your sabbaths, when you lived on it.

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 "'As for those of you who are left, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies: and the sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword; and they will fall when 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 They will stumble over one another, as it were before the sword, when no one pursues: and you will have no power to stand before your enemies.

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 nations, and the land of your enemies will eat you up.

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

39 Those of you who are left will rot away in their iniquity in the lands of their enemies; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they rot away with them.

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 "'If they confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me, and also that, because they walked contrary 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 I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies: if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity;

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 then I will remember my covenant with Jacob; and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham; and I will 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 The land also will be left by them, and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them: and they will accept the punishment of their iniquity; because, even because they rejected my ordinances, and their soul abhorred my statutes.

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 Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break 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 but I will for their sake remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might 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 statutes, ordinances and laws, which the LORD made between him and the children of Israel in Mount Sinai by 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.