Leviticus Chapter 26 Back Next{26:1} "'You shall make for yourselves no
idols, neither shall you raise up an engraved image or a pillar, neither shall you place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it: for I am Yahweh your God.
{26:2} "'You shall keep my Sabbaths, and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am Yahweh.
{26:3} "'If you walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;
{26:4} then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the
field shall yield their fruit.
{26:5} Your threshing shall reach to the vintage, and the vintage shall reach to the sowing time; and you shall eat your
bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.
{26:6} "'I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and no one will make you afraid; and I will remove evil animals out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.
{26:7} You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.
{26:8} Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand; and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
{26:9} "'I will have respect for you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and will establish my
covenant with you.
{26:10} You shall eat old store long kept, and you shall move out the old because of the new.
{26:11} I will set my tent among you: and my soul won't abhor you.
{26:12} I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you will be my people.
{26:13} I am Yahweh your God, who brought you forth out of the land of
Egypt, that you should not be their slaves; and I have broken the bars of your yoke, and made you go upright.
{26:14} "'But if you will not listen to me, and will not do all these commandments;
{26:15} and if you shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhors my ordinances, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant;
{26:16} I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and
fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away; and you will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.
{26:17} I will set my face against you, and you will be struck before your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you; and you will flee when no one pursues you.
{26:18} "'If you in spite of these things will not listen to me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins.
{26:19} I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like
iron, and your soil like
brass;
{26:20} and your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won't yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruit.
{26:21} "'If you walk contrary to me, and won't listen to me, then I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to your sins.
{26:22} I will send the wild animals among you, which will rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number; and your roads will become desolate.
{26:23} "'If by these things you won't be reformed to me, but will walk contrary to me;
{26:24} then I will also walk contrary to you; and I will strike you, even I, seven times for your sins.
{26:25} I will bring a sword upon you, that will execute the vengeance of the covenant; and you will be gathered together within your cities: and I will send the pestilence among you; and you will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
{26:26} When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight: and you shall eat, and not be satisfied.
{26:27} "'If you in spite of this won't listen to me, but walk contrary to me;
{26:28} then I will walk contrary to you in wrath; and I also will chastise you seven times for your sins.
{26:29} You will eat the
flesh of your sons, and you will eat the flesh of your daughters.
{26:30} I will destroy your
high places, and cut down your
incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you.
{26:31} I will lay your cities waste, and will bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not take delight in the sweet fragrance of your offerings.
{26:32} I will bring the land into desolation; and your enemies that dwell therein will be astonished at it.
{26:33} I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you: and your land will be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.
{26:34} Then the land will enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies' land. Even then the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths.
{26:35} As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it didn't have in your sabbaths, when you lived on it.
{26:36} "'As for those of you who are left, I will send a faintness into their
hearts in the lands of their enemies: and the sound of a driven
leaf will put them to flight; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword; and they will fall when no one pursues.
{26:37} They will stumble over one another, as it were before the sword, when no one pursues: and you will have no power to stand before your enemies.
{26:38} You will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will eat you up.
{26:39} Those of you who are left will pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their
fathers shall they pine away with them.
{26:40} "'If they confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me, and also that, because they walked contrary to me,
{26:41} I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies: if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity;
{26:42} then I will remember my covenant with
Jacob; and also my covenant with
Isaac, and also my covenant with
Abraham; and I will remember the land.
{26:43} The land also will be left by them, and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them: and they will accept the punishment of their iniquity; because, even because they rejected my ordinances, and their soul abhorred my statutes.
{26:44} Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them; for I am Yahweh their God;
{26:45} but I will for their sake remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. I am Yahweh.'"
{26:46} These are the statutes, ordinances and
laws, which Yahweh made between him and the children of
Israel in Mount Sinai by Moses.
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