Leviticus 26

1 “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.

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 must keep my Sabbaths and honor my sanctuary. I am Yahweh.

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

3 If you walk in my laws and keep my commandments and obey 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 I will give you rain in its season; the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will yield their fruit.

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

5 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.

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 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.

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

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

8 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.

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 I will look at you with favor and make you fruitful and multiply you; I will 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 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.

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

11 I will place my tabernacle among you, and I will not detest you.

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

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

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

13 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.

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, and will not obey all these commandments,

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

15 and if you reject my decrees and detest my laws, so that you will not obey all my commandments, but 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 —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.

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 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.

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 If after all this you do not listen to me, then I will punish you seven times as severely 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 I will break your pride in your power. I will make the sky over you like iron and your land like bronze.

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 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.

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

21 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.

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 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.

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 If in spite of these things you still do not accept my correction and you continue to walk in opposition to me,

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

24 then I will also walk in opposition to you, and I myself will punish you seven times because of your sins.

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

25 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.

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 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.

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 If you do not listen to me despite these things, but continue to walk against me,

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

28 then I will walk against you in anger, and I will punish you even seven more times as much for 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 You will eat the flesh of your sons; you will eat the flesh of your daughters.

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

30 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.

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 I will turn your cities into ruins and destroy your sanctuaries. I will not be pleased with the aroma of your offerings.

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 I will devastate the land. Your enemies who will live there will be shocked at the devastation.

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

33 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.

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 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.

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

35 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.

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 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.

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 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.

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 You will perish among the nations, and your enemies' land will itself devour you.

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

39 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.

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 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—

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

41 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,

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 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.

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

43 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.

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 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.

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 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.”

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 the commandments, decrees, and laws that Yahweh made between himself and the people of Israel at Mount Sinai through 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.