Leviticus 26
1 [Yahweh also said this to Moses/me on Sinai Mountain]: “Do not make idols or set up statues of false gods or sacred stones [to worship other gods]. And do not put on your property a stone that has been shaped [to resemble a false god] and bow down to [worship] it. [You must worship only] me, Yahweh, your God.
| לא תעשו לכם אלילם ופסל ומצבה לא תקימו לכם ואבן משכית לא תתנו בארצכם להשתחות עליה כי אני יהוה אלהיכם׃ |
2 “Honor the Sabbath days and revere my Sacred Tent, because I, Yahweh, [live there].
| את שבתתי תשמרו ומקדשי תיראו אני יהוה׃ |
3 “If you carefully obey all my commands [DOU],
| אם בחקתי תלכו ואת מצותי תשמרו ועשיתם אתם׃ |
4 I will send rain for you at the proper/right times, in order that crops will grow on your land and there will be plenty of fruit on your trees.
| ונתתי גשמיכם בעתם ונתנה הארץ יבולה ועץ השדה יתן פריו׃ |
5 You will continue [harvesting and] threshing [grain] until it is time to harvest grapes, and you will continue to harvest grapes until it is time to start planting [things in the following year]. And you will have all the food that you want to eat, and you will live safely in your land.
| והשיג לכם דיש את בציר ובציר ישיג את זרע ואכלתם לחמכם לשבע וישבתם לבטח בארצכם׃ |
6 “[If you obey all my laws], there will be peace in your country, and when you lie down [to sleep], nothing will cause you to be afraid. I will get rid of the dangerous animals in your country, and there will no wars [MTY] in your country.
| ונתתי שלום בארץ ושכבתם ואין מחריד והשבתי חיה רעה מן הארץ וחרב לא תעבר בארצכם׃ |
7 You will pursue your enemies and kill them with your swords:
| ורדפתם את איביכם ונפלו לפניכם לחרב׃ |
8 Five of you will pursue 100 of them, and 100 of you will pursue 1,000 of them and kill them with your swords.
| ורדפו מכם חמשה מאה ומאה מכם רבבה ירדפו ונפלו איביכם לפניכם לחרב׃ |
9 “[If you obey all my laws], I will bless you and cause you to have many children [DOU]. And I will do what I said that I would do in the agreement that I made with you.
| ופניתי אליכם והפריתי אתכם והרביתי אתכם והקימתי את בריתי אתכם׃ |
10 When you are still eating food from the harvest from the previous year, it will be necessary for you to throw away some of it to make space for the new harvest.
| ואכלתם ישן נושן וישן מפני חדש תוציאו׃ |
11 I will live among you in my Sacred Tent, and I will never reject you.
| ונתתי משכני בתוככם ולא תגעל נפשי אתכם׃ |
12 I will walk among you and continue to be your God, and you will continue to be my people.
| והתהלכתי בתוככם והייתי לכם לאלהים ואתם תהיו לי לעם׃ |
13 I am Yahweh your God, the one who brought you out of Egypt in order that you would no longer be slaves of the people of Egypt. [When you were there, you were treated as though you were animals that worked for the people of Egypt, but] [MET] I broke the bars of the (yokes/frames that were put around your necks) and enabled you to walk with your heads up.”
| אני יהוה אלהיכם אשר הוצאתי אתכם מארץ מצרים מהית להם עבדים ואשבר מטת עלכם ואולך אתכם קוממיות׃ |
14 “But if you will not heed me and obey all these commands,
| ואם לא תשמעו לי ולא תעשו את כל המצות האלה׃ |
15 and if you reject [DOU] my decrees and laws, and do not do [DOU] what I commanded you to do in the agreement that I made with you,
| ואם בחקתי תמאסו ואם את משפטי תגעל נפשכם לבלתי עשות את כל מצותי להפרכם את בריתי׃ |
16 these are the things that I will do to you: I will suddenly cause there to be disasters that will ruin you. You will have diseases that cannot be cured, and fevers that will cause you to become blind and will slowly kill you. It will be useless for you to plant seeds, because your enemies will eat the crops that grow.
| אף אני אעשה זאת לכם והפקדתי עליכם בהלה את השחפת ואת הקדחת מכלות עינים ומדיבת נפש וזרעתם לריק זרעכם ואכלהו איביכם׃ |
17 I will reject/abandon you [IDM], with the result that you will be defeated by your enemies. Then those who hate you will rule you, and [you will be so terrified that] you will run away even when no one is pursuing you.
| ונתתי פני בכם ונגפתם לפני איביכם ורדו בכם שנאיכם ונסתם ואין רדף אתכם׃ |
18 “If you still will not heed me after all those things happen to you, I will continue to punish you again and again for the sins that you have committed.
| ואם עד אלה לא תשמעו לי ויספתי ליסרה אתכם שבע על חטאתיכם׃ |
19 I will cause you to no longer be stubborn and proud; I will cause [no rain to fall; it will be as though] [MET] the sky is made of iron; and the ground will be [as hard as] brass [MET].
| ושברתי את גאון עזכם ונתתי את שמיכם כברזל ואת ארצכם כנחשה׃ |
20 You will uselessly work very hard [to plant seeds], because crops will not grow in the hard soil in your fields, and fruit will not grow on your trees.
| ותם לריק כחכם ולא תתן ארצכם את יבולה ועץ הארץ לא יתן פריו׃ |
21 “If you continue to oppose me and refuse to heed me, I will cause you to experience disasters again and again, like you deserve to experience because of your sins.
| ואם תלכו עמי קרי ולא תאבו לשמע לי ויספתי עליכם מכה שבע כחטאתיכם׃ |
22 I will send wild animals to attack you, and they will kill your little children and destroy your cattle. There will be very few of you who will remain alive, with the result that there will be very few [HYP] people walking on the roads in your country.
| והשלחתי בכם את חית השדה ושכלה אתכם והכריתה את בהמתכם והמעיטה אתכם ונשמו דרכיכם׃ |
23 “When you experience those things that I do to punish you, if you still do not pay attention to me, and if you continue to oppose me,
| ואם באלה לא תוסרו לי והלכתם עמי קרי׃ |
24 I myself will oppose you, and I will punish you for your sins again and again.
| והלכתי אף אני עמכם בקרי והכיתי אתכם גם אני שבע על חטאתיכם׃ |
25 I will send [foreign] [MTY] to punish you for not doing the things that I commanded you to do in the agreement that I made with you. If you [try to escape from your enemies by] shutting yourselves in your cities [that have walls around them], I will cause you to experience plagues, and I will allow your enemies to capture [IDM] you.
| והבאתי עליכם חרב נקמת נקם ברית ונאספתם אל עריכם ושלחתי דבר בתוככם ונתתם ביד אויב׃ |
26 When I cut off your food supply, there will be very little flour with which to make bread. As a result, ten women will be able to bake all their bread in [only] one oven. [When the bread is baked], each woman will divide it [among the members of her family, but there will be very little for each one], and when they have eaten all of it, they will still be hungry.
| בשברי לכם מטה לחם ואפו עשר נשים לחמכם בתנור אחד והשיבו לחמכם במשקל ואכלתם ולא תשבעו׃ |
27 “After all those things happen, if you still do not heed me, if you still oppose me,
| ואם בזאת לא תשמעו לי והלכתם עמי בקרי׃ |
28 I will be very angry with you, and I will oppose you, and I myself will punish you for your sins again and again.
| והלכתי עמכם בחמת קרי ויסרתי אתכם אף אני שבע על חטאתיכם׃ |
29 [You will be extremely hungry, with the result that] you will [kill] your sons and daughters and eat their flesh.
| ואכלתם בשר בניכם ובשר בנתיכם תאכלו׃ |
30 I will cause the shrines [where you worship idols] on hilltops to be destroyed. I will smash the altars where you burn incense [to worship your gods], and I will cause your corpses to be piled on the lifeless statues of your gods. And I will detest you.
| והשמדתי את במתיכם והכרתי את חמניכם ונתתי את פגריכם על פגרי גלוליכם וגעלה נפשי אתכם׃ |
31 I will cause your cities to become heaps of ruins, and I will cause the buildings that are dedicated to the worship of your gods to be smashed. And I will not be pleased at all with the aroma of your offerings [that are burned on the altar].
| ונתתי את עריכם חרבה והשמותי את מקדשיכם ולא אריח בריח ניחחכם׃ |
32 I will completely ruin your country, with the result that even your enemies who capture it will be shocked/appalled [when they see it].
| והשמתי אני את הארץ ושממו עליה איביכם הישבים בה׃ |
33 I will enable [your enemies to kill you with] their swords, and I will cause the rest of you to be scattered among other nations. Your country will be ruined and your cities will become ruins.
| ואתכם אזרה בגוים והריקתי אחריכם חרב והיתה ארצכם שממה ועריכם יהיו חרבה׃ |
34 After that happens, as long as you are living in your enemies’ countries, your land will be allowed to rest, like you should have allowed it to rest every seven years.
| אז תרצה הארץ את שבתתיה כל ימי השמה ואתם בארץ איביכם אז תשבת הארץ והרצת את שבתתיה׃ |
35 All the time that your land is desolate, it will be able to rest, like you did not enable it to rest during all the years that you lived there.
| כל ימי השמה תשבת את אשר לא שבתה בשבתתיכם בשבתכם עליה׃ |
36 “As for you people who will remain alive in the countries to which your enemies [will have taken you], I will cause you to become so afraid that when you hear the sound of leaves being blown by the wind, you will run away. You will run like [SIM] you are running from [a man carrying] a sword, and you will fall down, even though no one is pursuing you.
| והנשארים בכם והבאתי מרך בלבבם בארצת איביהם ורדף אתם קול עלה נדף ונסו מנסת חרב ונפלו ואין רדף׃ |
37 You will stumble over each other. So you will not be able to stand and fight your enemies.
| וכשלו איש באחיו כמפני חרב ורדף אין ולא תהיה לכם תקומה לפני איביכם׃ |
38 Many of you will die in the countries that belong to your enemies [DOU].
| ואבדתם בגוים ואכלה אתכם ארץ איביכם׃ |
39 And those of you who remain alive will slowly die and rot in the countries of your enemies because of your sins and because of the sins of your ancestors.
| והנשארים בכם ימקו בעונם בארצת איביכם ואף בעונת אבתם אתם ימקו׃ |
40 “But your descendants must confess their sins and the sins that their ancestors committed. Their ancestors acted unfaithfully toward me and were hostile to me, with the result that I forced them to go to the countries that belonged to their enemies. But when your descendants humble themselves [SYN] and stop being very stubborn [IDM] and accept being punished for their sins,
| והתודו את עונם ואת עון אבתם במעלם אשר מעלו בי ואף אשר הלכו עמי בקרי׃ |
| אף אני אלך עמם בקרי והבאתי אתם בארץ איביהם או אז יכנע לבבם הערל ואז ירצו את עונם׃ |
42 I will remember the agreement that I made with [your ancestors] Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, and [what I promised them about] this land.
| וזכרתי את בריתי יעקוב ואף את בריתי יצחק ואף את בריתי אברהם אזכר והארץ אזכר׃ |
43 But [before that happens], you will be forced to leave your land, with the result that the land will be able to rest while it is desolate and while the people are being punished for rejecting my laws and hating my decrees [DOU].
| והארץ תעזב מהם ותרץ את שבתתיה בהשמה מהם והם ירצו את עונם יען וביען במשפטי מאסו ואת חקתי געלה נפשם׃ |
44 But when that happens, I will still not reject them or hate them and destroy them completely. I will not cancel the agreement that I made with them; for I am still Yahweh their God.
| ואף גם זאת בהיותם בארץ איביהם לא מאסתים ולא געלתים לכלתם להפר בריתי אתם כי אני יהוה אלהיהם׃ |
45 I will (remember/never forget) the agreement that I made with your ancestors when I brought them out of Egypt, in order that the people of all nations will know that I, Yahweh, [will continue to] be your God.”
| וזכרתי להם ברית ראשנים אשר הוצאתי אתם מארץ מצרים לעיני הגוים להית להם לאלהים אני יהוה׃ |
46 Those are the decrees, the laws, and the regulations [DOU] that Yahweh established on Sinai Mountain between himself and the Israeli people by [giving them to] Moses/me [to tell to them].
| אלה החקים והמשפטים והתורת אשר נתן יהוה בינו ובין בני ישראל בהר סיני ביד משה׃ |
