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.

Do not make images of false gods, or put up an image cut in stone or a pillar or any pictured stone in your land, to give worship to 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 give honour to my holy place: I am the Lord.

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

If you are guided by my rules, and keep my laws and do them,

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.

Then I will give you rain at the right time, and the land will give her increase and the trees of the field will give their 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.

And the crushing of the grain will overtake the cutting of the grapes, and the cutting of the grapes will overtake the planting of the seed, and there will be bread in full measure, and you will be living in your land safely.

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.

And I will give you peace in the land, and you will take your rest and no one will give you cause for fear; and I will put an end to all evil beasts in the land, and no sword of war will go through your land.

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

And you will put to flight those who are against you, and they will be put to death by your swords.

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.

Then five of you will put to flight a hundred, and a hundred of you will put to flight ten thousand, and all who are against you will be put to death by your swords.

9 I will look at you with favor and make you fruitful and multiply you; I will establish my covenant with you.

And I will have pleasure in you and make you fertile and greater in number; and I will keep my agreement 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.

And old stores long kept will be your food, and you will take out the old because of the new;

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

And I will put my holy House among you, and my soul will not be turned away from you in disgust.

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

And I will be present among you and will be your God and you will 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 took you out of the land of Egypt so that you might not be servants to them; by me the cords of your yoke were broken and I made you go upright.

14 But if you will not listen to me, and will not obey all these commandments,

But if you do not give ear to me, and do not keep all these my laws;

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

And if you go against my rules and if you have hate in your souls for my decisions and you do not do all my orders, but go against my agreement;

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.

This will I do to you: I will put fear in your hearts, even wasting disease and burning pain, drying up the eyes and making the soul feeble, and you will get no profit from your seed, for your haters will take it for food.

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.

And my face will be turned from you, and you will be broken before those who are against you, and your haters will become your rulers, and you will go in flight when no man comes after you.

18 If after all this you do not listen to me, then I will punish you seven times as severely for your sins.

And if, even after these things, you will not give ear to me, then I will send you punishment 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 the pride of your strength will be broken, and I will make your heaven as iron and your 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.

And your strength will be used up without profit; for your land will not give her increase and the trees of the field will not give 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.

And if you still go against me and will not give ear to me, I will put seven times more punishments on you 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.

I will let loose the beasts of the field among you, and they will take away your children and send destruction on your cattle, so that your numbers will become small and your roads become waste.

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 by these things you will not be turned to me, but still go against me;

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

Then I will go against you, and I will give you punishment, I myself, seven times for all 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 send a sword on you to give effect to the punishment of my agreement; and when you come together into your towns I will send disease among you and you will be given up into the hands of your haters.

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.

When I take away your bread of life, ten women will be cooking bread in one oven, and your bread will be measured out by weight; you will have food but never enough.

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

And if, after all this, you do not give ear to me, but go against me still,

28 then I will walk against you in anger, and I will punish you even seven more times as much for your sins.

Then my wrath will be burning against you, and I will give you punishment, I myself, seven times for your sins.

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

Then you will take the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters for food;

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.

And I will send destruction on your high places, overturning your perfume altars, and will put your dead bodies on your broken images, and my soul will be turned from you in disgust.

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

And I will make your towns waste and send destruction on your holy places; I will take no pleasure in the smell of your sweet perfumes;

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

And I will make your land a waste, a wonder to your haters living in it.

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 send you out in all directions among the nations, and my sword will be uncovered against you, and your land will be without any living thing, and your towns will be made waste.

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 will the land take pleasure in its Sabbaths while it is waste and you are living in the land of your haters; then will the land have rest.

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.

All the days while it is waste will the land have rest, such rest as it never had in your Sabbaths, when you were living in it.

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 for the rest of you, I will make their hearts feeble in the land of their haters, and the sound of a leaf moved by the wind will send them in flight, and they will go in flight as from the sword, falling down when no one comes after 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.

Falling on one another, as before the sword, when no one comes after them; you will give way before your haters.

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

And death will overtake you among strange nations, and the land of your haters will be your destruction.

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 those of you who are still living will be wasting away in their sins in the land of your haters; in the sins of their fathers they will be wasting away.

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—

And they will have grief for their sins and for the sins of their fathers, when their hearts were untrue to me, and they went against 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,

So that I went against them and sent them away into the land of their haters: if then the pride of their hearts is broken and they take the punishment of 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.

Then I will keep in mind the agreement which I made with Jacob and with Isaac and with Abraham, and I will keep in mind 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.

And the land, while she is without them, will keep her Sabbaths; and they will undergo the punishment of their sins, because they were turned away from my decisions and in their souls was hate for 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.

But for all that, when they are in the land of their haters I will not let them go, or be turned away from them, or give them up completely; my agreement with them will not be broken, 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 because of them I will keep in mind the agreement which I made with their fathers, whom I took out of the land of Egypt before the eyes of the nations, 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 rules, decisions, and laws, which the Lord made between himself and the children of Israel in Mount Sinai, by the hand of Moses.