Leviticus 26

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Additional Blessings of Obedience

¹“You must not make idols for yourselves or set up a carved image or sacred pillar; you must not place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down to it. For I am the LORD your God.

¹“ You shall not make for yourselves idols, and you shall not rear up for yourselves a graven image or standing image, and you shall not set up an engraved stone in your land to bow down to it. For I am YHWH your God.

²You must keep My Sabbaths and have reverence for My sanctuary. I am the LORD.

²You shall keep My Sabbaths and you shall revere My sanctuary. I am YHWH.

³If you follow My statutes and carefully keep My commandments,

³If you walk in My statutes and and keep My commandments and do them,

⁴I will give you rains in their season, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.

⁴then I will give to you rain in its season, and the land shall yield its produce, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit,

⁵Your threshing will continue until the grape harvest, and the grape harvest will continue until sowing time; you will have your fill of food to eat and will dwell securely in your land.

⁵and your threshing shall last until the time of vintage, and the vintage shall last until the time of sowing, and you shall eat your bread to the full and dwell safely in your land.

⁶And I will give peace to the land, and you will lie down with nothing to fear. I will rid the land of dangerous animals, and no sword will pass through your land.

⁶And I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and nothing will make you afraid. And evil beasts I will cause to cease from the land, and the sword will not go into your land.

⁷You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall by the sword before you.

⁷And you will pursue your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.

⁸Five of you will pursue a hundred, and a hundred of you will pursue ten thousand, and your enemies will fall by the sword before you.

⁸And five of you shall pursue a hundred, and a hundred of you shall pursue a myriad, and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.

⁹I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will establish My covenant with you.

⁹And I will turn to you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will establish My covenant with you.

¹⁰You will still be eating the old supply of grain when you need to clear it out to make room for the new.

¹⁰And you shall eat the old store a long time, and you will move out the old store because of the new.

¹¹And I will make My dwelling place^a among you, and My soul will not despise^b you.

¹¹And I will set My tabernacle in your midst, and My soul shall not abhor you.

¹²I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be My people.^a

¹²And I will walk in your midst, and I will be unto you God, and you will be unto Me for a people.

¹³I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so that you would no longer be slaves to the Egyptians. I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to walk in uprightness.

¹³I am YHWH your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves. And I have broken the bands of your yoke and made you walk upright.

Punishments for Disobedience

¹⁴If, however, you fail to obey Me and to carry out all these commandments,

¹⁴But if you do not obey Me and do not observe all these commandments,

¹⁵and if you reject My statutes, despise My ordinances, and neglect to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant,

¹⁵and if you despise My statutes, and if your soul abhors My ordinances so as not to perform all My commandments to your breaking My covenant,

¹⁶then this is what I will do to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting disease, and fever that will destroy your sight and drain your life. You will sow your seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.

¹⁶then I also will do this to you: I will appoint over you terror, wasting disease, and fever, which shall consume the eyes and cause sorrow of heart, and you shall sow your seed in vain, and your enemies shall eat it.

¹⁷And I will set My face against you, so that you will be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when no one pursues you.

¹⁷And I will set My face against you, and you shall be defeated by your enemies. And those who hate you shall reign over you, and you shall flee when none pursues you.

¹⁸And if after all this you will not obey Me, I will proceed to punish you sevenfold for your sins.

¹⁸And if after these things you do not obey Me, then I will add to punish you sevenfold for your sins.

¹⁹I will break down your stubborn pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze,

¹⁹And I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze.

²⁰and your strength will be spent in vain. For your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit.

²⁰And your power shall be spent in vain, and your land shall not yield its produce, and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.

²¹If you walk in hostility toward Me and refuse to obey Me, I will multiply your plagues seven times, according to your sins.

²¹And if you walk contrary to Me and are not willing to obey Me, then I will add to you a plague sevenfold, according to your sins.

²²I will send wild animals against you to rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and reduce your numbers, until your roads lie desolate.

²²And I will send among you the wild beast, and it shall rob you of your children and destroy your livestock and make you few in number, and your highways shall be desolate.

²³And if in spite of these things you do not accept My discipline, but continue to walk in hostility toward Me,

²³And if by these things you are not reformed by Me, and you walk contrary to Me,

²⁴then I will act with hostility toward you, and I will strike you sevenfold for your sins.

²⁴then I will also walk contrary to you, and I will punish you—even I—sevenfold for your sins.

²⁵And I will bring a sword against you to execute the vengeance of the covenant. Though you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague among you, and you will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

²⁵And I will bring against you a sword that will kill the vengeance of the covenant. And when you are gathered together within your cities, then I will send pestilence in your midst, and you shall be given into the hand of the enemy.

²⁶When I cut off your supply^a of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.

²⁶In My breaking your staff of bread, then ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall bring back your bread by weight, and you shall eat and not be satisfied.

²⁷But if in spite of all this you do not obey Me, but continue to walk in hostility toward Me,

²⁷And if after all this you do not obey Me, and if you walk contrary to Me,

²⁸then I will walk in fury against you, and I, even I, will punish you sevenfold for your sins.

²⁸then I will also walk contrary to you in fury, and I will chastise you—even I—sevenfold for your sins.

²⁹You will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters.

²⁹And you shall eat the flesh of your sons; even the flesh of your daughters you shall eat.

³⁰I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your lifeless bodies on the lifeless remains of your idols; and My soul will despise you.

³⁰And I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars and cast your carcasses on the lifeless forms of your idols, and My soul will abhor you.

³¹I will reduce your cities to rubble and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will refuse to smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices.

³¹And I will lay waste your cities and bring to desolation your sanctuaries, and I will not smell your pleasing. aromas

³²And I will lay waste the land, so that your enemies who dwell in it will be appalled.

³²And I will bring to desolation the land, and your enemies who dwell in it will be astonished at it.

³³But I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you as your land becomes desolate and your cities are laid waste.

³³And I will scatter you among the nations and draw out after you a sword. And your land will be desolate and your cities will become waste.

³⁴Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths all the days it lies desolate, while you are in the land of your enemies. At that time the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.

³⁴Then the land will enjoy its sabbaths, all the days of the desolation—and you are in the land of your enemies. Then the land shall rest and enjoy its sabbaths.

³⁵As long as it lies desolate, the land will have the rest it did not receive during the Sabbaths when you lived in it.

³⁵All the days of the desolation it shall rest, for it did not rest in your Sabbaths, when you dwelt in it.

³⁶As for those of you who survive, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, so that even the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to flight. And they will flee as one flees the sword, and fall when no one pursues them.

³⁶And those remaining of you, I will send faintness into their heart in the lands of their enemies, and the sound of a shaken leaf will cause them to flee, and they will flee as though fleeing from a sword, and they will fall when none pursues.

³⁷They will stumble over one another as before the sword, though no one is behind them. So you will not be able to stand against your enemies.

³⁷And they will stumble over one another as it were before a sword, when none pursues. And you shall have no standing before the face of your enemies.

³⁸You will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will consume you.

³⁸And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.

³⁹Those of you who survive in the lands of your enemies will waste away in their iniquity and will decay in the sins of their fathers.

³⁹And those who are left of you shall waste away in their iniquity in the lands of your enemies, and also in the iniquities of their fathers they shall waste away with them.

God Remembers Those Who Repent

⁴⁰But if they will confess their iniquity and that of their fathers in the unfaithfulness that they practiced against Me, by which they have also walked in hostility toward Me—

⁴⁰And if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, with their unfaithfulness in which they were unfaithful to Me, and also that they have walked contrary to Me,

⁴¹and I acted with hostility toward them and brought them into the land of their enemies—and if their uncircumcised hearts will be humbled and they will make amends for their iniquity,

⁴¹and also that I have walked contrary to them and have brought them into the land of their enemies—if then their uncircumcised hearts are humbled and then they accept their guilt,

⁴²then I will remember My covenant with Jacob and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.

⁴²then I will remember My covenant with Jacob and My covenant with Isaac, and I will remember My covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.

⁴³For the land will be abandoned by them, and it will enjoy its Sabbaths by lying desolate without them. And they will pay the penalty for their iniquity, because they rejected My ordinances and abhorred My statutes.

⁴³And the land shall be left empty by them, and it will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them. And they will accept their guilt because, even because, they have despised My ordinances and their souls have abhorred My statutes.

⁴⁴Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject or despise them so as to destroy them and break My covenant with them; for I am the LORD their God.

⁴⁴And also even this, in their being in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, nor will I abhor them to utterly destroy them and break My covenant with them. For I am YHWH their God.

⁴⁵But for their sake I will remember the covenant with their fathers, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. I am the LORD.”

⁴⁵And I will remember for their sake the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the eyes of the nations, that I might be their God. I am YHWH.”

⁴⁶These are the statutes, ordinances, and laws that the LORD established between Himself and the Israelites through Moses on Mount Sinai.

⁴⁶And these are the statutes and the ordinances and the laws that YHWH made between Himself and between the sons of Israel on Mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.