Leviticus 26

1 Ye shall not make unto you idols, —neither image nor pillar, shall ye set up for yourselves, nor sculptured stone, shall ye place in your land, to bow yourselves down thereunto, -For, I Yahweh, am your God.

I am the Lord your God: you shall not make to yourselves any idol or graven thing, neither shall you erect pillars, nor set up a remarkable stone in your land, to adore it: for I am the Lord your God.

2 My sabbaths, shall ye observe, And, my sanctuary, shall ye revere, —I, am Yahweh.

Keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.

3 If, in my statutes, ye will walk, —And my commandments, ye will observe, and do them,

If you walk in my precepts, and keep my commandments, and do them, I will give you rein in due seasons.

4 Then will I give your rains in their season, —And the land shall yield her increase, And, the trees of the field, shall yield their fruit.

And the ground shall bring forth its increase, and the trees shall be filled with fruit.

5 Then shall your threshing reach unto the vintage, And, the vintage, shall reach unto the seedtime, —And ye shall eat your food to the full, And shall dwell securely in your land.

The threshing of your harvest shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and you shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land without fear.

6 And I will give peace in the land, And ye shall lie down, and nothing shall make you afraid; And I will take away vicious beasts out of the land; And, the sword, shall not go through your land.

I will give peace in your coasts: you shall sleep, and there shall be none to make you afraid. I will take away evil beasts: and the sword shall not pass through your quarters.

7 And ye shall chase your foes, —And they shall fall before you by the sword;

You shall pursue your enemies, and they shall fall before you.

8 And, five, of you shall chase, a hundred, And, a hundred, of you shall put ten thousand to flight, —So shall your foes fall before you, by the sword.

Five of yours shall pursue a hundred others, and a hundred of you ten thousand: your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.

9 And I will turn unto you, And make you fruitful, —And multiply you, And will establish my covenant with you.

I will look on you, and make you increase: you shell be multiplied, and I will establish my covenant with you.

10 And ye shall eat old store well seasoned, —And the old from before the new, shall ye put forth.

You shall eat the oldest of the old store, and, new coming on, you shall cast away the old.

11 And I will set my habitation in your midst, —And my soul shall not abhor you;

I will set my tabernacle in the midst of you, and my soul shall not cast you off.

12 But I will walk to and fro in your midst, And will be unto you a God, And, ye, shall be unto me a people.

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

13 I—Yahweh, am your God who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; so I brake in pieces the staves of your yoke, and caused you to walk, erect.

I am the Lord your God: who have brought you out of the land of the Egyptians, that you should not serve them, and who have broken the chains of your necks, that you might go upright.

14 But, if ye will not hearken unto me, And will not do all these commandments;

But if you will not hear me, nor do all my commandments,

15 And if, my statutes, ye refuse, And, my regulations, your souls shall abhor, —So that ye will not do all my commandments, But shall break my covenant

If you despise my laws, and contemn my judgments so as not to do those things which are appointed by me, and to make void my covenant:

16 I also, will do this unto you—I will set over you, for terror, consumption and fever, Causing the eyes to fail and the soul to pine away, —And ye shall sow, in vain, your seed, for it shall be eaten by your foes.

I also will do these things to you: I will quickly visit you with poverty, and burning heat, which shall waste your eyes, and consume your lives. You shall sow your seed in vain, which shall be devoured by your enemies.

17 And I will set my face against you, And ye shall be smitten before your foes, -And be trodden down by them who hate you, And shall flee when no one is pursuing you.

I will set my face against you, and you shall fall down before your enemies, and shall be made subject to them that hate you, you shall flee when no man pursueth you.

18 And, if even with these things, ye will not hearken unto me, Then will I yet further correct you seven times, for your sins.

But if you will not yet for all this obey me: I will chastise you seven times more for your sins,

19 So will I break your pomp of power, And will set your heavens as iron, and your land as bronze;

And I will break the pride of your stubbornness, and I will make to you the heaven above as iron, and the earth as brass:

20 And your strength shall be spent in vain, —And your land shall not yield her increase, And the trees of the land, shall not yield their fruit.

Your labour shall be spent in vain, the ground shall not bring forth her increase, nor the trees yield their fruit.

21 If therefore, ye will go in opposition to me, And not be willing to hearken unto me, Then will I yet further plague you seven times according to your sins;

If you walk contrary to me, and will not hearken to me, I will bring seven times more plagues upon you for your sins:

22 And will send among you the wild-beast of the field And it shall rob you of your children, And cut off your cattle, And make you few in number; And your roads shall be silent.

And I will send in upon you the beasts of the held, to destroy you and your cattle, and make you few in number, and that your highways may be desolate.

23 And, if, by these things, ye will not be corrected by me, —But will go in opposition to me,

And if even so you will not amend, but will walk contrary to me:

24 Then will, I also, go in opposition to you. And, I, even I, will plague you seven times for your sins;

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

25 And will bring in upon you a sword that shall inflict the covenanted avenging: So shall ye be gathered into your cities, —Then will I send a pestilence into your midst, And ye shall be delivered into the hand of an enemy.

And I will bring in upon you the sword that shall avenge my covenant. And when you shall flee into the cities, I will send the pestilence in the midst of you, and you shall be delivered into the hands of your enemies,

26 When I have broken your staff of bread, then shall ten women bake your bread in one oven, And give back your bread by weight, —And ye shall eat and not be filled.

After I shall have broken the staff of your bread: so that ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and give it out by weight: and you shall eat, and shall not be filled.

27 And, if, with this, ye will not hearken to me, —But will go in opposition to me,

But if you will not for all this hearken to me, but will walk against me:

28 Then will I go in a rage of opposition to you, —And I, even I, will correct you seven times for your sins;

I will also go against you with opposite fury, and I will chastise you with seven plagues for your sins,

29 And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, —Yea, even the flesh of your daughters, shall ye eat.

So that you shall eat the flesh of your sons and of your daughters.

30 And I will destroy your high places And cut down your sun-pillars, And cast your carcases upon the carcases of your manufactured gods, —Thus shall my soul abhor you.

I will destroy your high places, and break your idols. You shall fall among the ruins of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.

31 And I will give your cities unto desolation, And make your holy places dumb, —And will find no fragrance in your satisfying odour;

Insomuch that I will bring your cities to be a wilderness, and I will make your sanctuaries desolate, and will receive no more your sweet odours.

32 And, I, will make the land dumb, And your foes that dwell therein shall regard it with dumb amazement:

And I will destroy your land, and your enemies shall be astonished at it, when they shall be the inhabitants thereof.

33 When, even you, I scatter among the nations, And make bare after you, a sword, Then shall your land become an astonishment, And your cities become a desolation.

And I will scatter you among the Gentiles, and I will draw out the sword after you, and your land shall be desert, and your cities destroyed.

34 Then, shall the land be paid her sabbaths, All the days she lieth desolate, While, ye, are in the land of your foes, —Then, shall the land keep sabbath, And pay off her sabbaths:

Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths all the days of her desolation: when you shall be

35 All the days she lieth desolate, shall she keep sabbath, —the which she kept not as your sabbaths, —while ye dwelt thereupon.

In the enemy’s land, she shall keep a sabbath, and rest in the sabbaths of her desolation, because she did not rest in your sabbaths when you dwelt therein.

36 And as for such as are left of you, Then will I bring faintness into their heart, in the lands of their foes, —So that the sound of a driven leaf shall chase them, And they shall flee as though fleeing from a sword And they shall fall, when no one is pursuing;

And as to them that shall remain of you I will send fear in their hearts in the countries of their enemies, the sound of a flying leaf shall terrify them, and they shall flee as it were from the sword: they shall fall, when no man pursueth them,

37 And they shall stumble one upon another as from before a sword, when, pursuer there is none; And ye shall not have wherewith to stand before your foes;

And they shall every one fall upon their brethren as fleeing from wars, none of you shall dare to resist your enemies.

38 And ye shall perish among the nations, —And the land of your foes shall eat you up;

You shall perish among the Gentiles, and an enemy’s land shall consume you.

39 And they who are left of you, shall melt away in their iniquity, in the lands of your foes; Yea also, in the iniquity of their fathers with them, shall they melt away.

And if of them also some remain, they shall pine away in their iniquities, in the land of their enemies, and they shall be afflicted for the sins of their fathers, and their own:

40 Then shall they confess their iniquity, And the iniquity of their fathers, In their unfaithfulness wherewith they had been unfaithful towards me; Yea moreover, because they had gone in opposition to me,

Until they confess their iniquities and the iniquities of their ancestors, whereby they have transgressed me, and walked contrary unto me.

41 I also, must needs go in opposition to them, and bring them into the land of their foes, —Save only that, if, even then, their uncircumcised heart shall be humbled, And, even then, they shall accept as a payment the punishment of their iniquity,

Therefore I also will walk them, and bring them into their enemies’ land until their uncircumcised mind be ashamed: then shall they pray for their sins.

42 Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob Yea moreover, my covenant with Isaac, Yea moreover, my covenant with Abraham, will I remember; And the land, will I remember.

And I will remember my covenant, that I made with Jacob, and Isaac, and Abraham. I will remember also the land:

43 For, the land, shall be left of them, And shall be paid her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them, They also, accepting, as a payment, the punishment of their iniquity, Because, yea because, my regulations, they refused, And my statutes, their soul abhorred.

Which when she shall be left by them, shall enjoy her sabbaths, being desolate for them. But they shall pray for their sins, because they rejected my judgments, and despised my laws.

44 And yet even so when they are in the land of their foes I have not refused them Neither have I abhorred them To make an end of them, To break my covenant with them, —For, I—Yahweh, am their God.

And yet for all that when they were in the land of their enemies, I did not cast them off altogether, neither did I so despise them that they should be quite consumed, and I should make void my covenant with them. For I am the Lord their God.

45 Therefore will I remember in their behalf 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—Yahweh.

And I will remember my former covenant, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, in the sight of the Gentiles, to be their God. I am the Lord.

46 These are the statutes and the regulations and the laws, which Yahweh granted between himself, and the sons of Israel, —in Mount Sinai by the mediation of Moses.

These are the judgments, and precepts, and laws, which the Lord gave between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.