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

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

3 If you walk in my laws and keep my commandments and obey them,

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

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 increase, and the trees shall be filled 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 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 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 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 You will chase your enemies, and they will fall before you by the sword.

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

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 on you, and make you increase: you shell be multiplied, and I will establish 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 shall eat the oldest of the old store, and, new coming on, you shall cast away the old.

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

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

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

I will walk among you, and 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 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 you will not listen to me, and will not obey all these commandments,

But if you will not hear me, nor do all 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 contemn my judgments so as not to do those things which are appointed by me, and to make void my covenant:

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.

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 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 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 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 yet for all this obey me: I will chastise you seven times more for 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 break the pride of your stubbornness, and I will make to you the heaven above as iron, and the earth as 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 labour shall be spent in vain, the ground shall not bring forth her increase, nor the trees yield 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 contrary to me, and will not hearken to me, I will bring seven times more plagues upon you for 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 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 If in spite of these things you still do not accept my correction and you continue to walk in opposition to me,

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

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

I also will walk contrary to you, and will strike you seven times for 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 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 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 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 If you do not listen to me despite these things, but continue to walk against me,

But if you will not for all this hearken to me, but will 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.

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

29 You will eat the flesh of your sons; you will eat the flesh of your daughters.

So that you shall eat the flesh of your sons and of 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 break your idols. You shall fall among the ruins of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.

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

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

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

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.

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 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 shall the land enjoy her sabbaths all the days of her desolation: when you shall 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 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 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 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 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 shall every one fall upon their brethren as fleeing from wars, none of you shall dare to resist your enemies.

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

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

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 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 the iniquities of their ancestors, whereby they have transgressed me, and walked contrary unto 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 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 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, that I made with Jacob, and Isaac, and Abraham. I will remember also 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 gave between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.