Leviticus 26
26
Rewards for Obeying the Lord
1“ ‘Do not make statues of gods for yourselves. Do not set up a likeness of a god or a sacred stone for yourselves. Do not place a carved stone in your land and bow down in front of it. I am the Lord your God.
2“ ‘You must always keep my Sabbath days. Have respect for my sacred tent. I am the Lord.
3“ ‘Follow my rules. Be careful to obey my commands. 4Then I will send you rain at the right time. The ground will produce its crops. The trees will bear their fruit. 5You will continue to harvest your grain until you gather your grapes. You will continue to gather your grapes until you plant your crops. You will have all you want to eat. And you will live in safety in your land.
6“ ‘I will give you peace in the land. You will be able to sleep because no one will make you afraid. I will remove wild animals from the land. There will not be any war in your country. 7You will hunt down your enemies. You will kill them with your swords. 8Five of you will chase 100. And 100 of you will chase 10,000. You will kill your enemies with your swords.
9“ ‘I will bless you. I will give you many children so that there will be many of you. And I will be faithful to the covenant I made with you. 10You will still be eating last year’s crops when you will have to make room for new crops. 11I will live among you. I will not turn away from you. 12I will walk among you. I will be your God. And you will be my people. 13I am the Lord your God. I brought you out of Egypt. I did not want you to be slaves in Egypt anymore. I threw off your heavy load. I helped you walk with your heads held high.
Punishment for Not Obeying the Lord
14“ ‘On the other hand, suppose you do not listen to me. Suppose you do not carry out all my commands. 15Suppose you say no to my rules and turn away from my laws. And suppose you break my covenant by failing to carry out all my commands. 16Then here is what I will do to you. All at once I will bring terror on you. I will send sicknesses that will make you weak. I will send fever that will destroy your sight. It will slowly take your strength away. When you plant seeds, it will not do you any good. Instead, your enemies will eat what you have planted. 17I will turn against you. Then your enemies will win the battle over you. Those who hate you will rule over you. You will run away even when no one is chasing you.
18“ ‘After all that, suppose you still will not listen to me. Then I will punish you for your sins seven times. 19I will break down your stubborn pride. I will make the sky above you like iron, and it will not rain. I will make the ground under you like bronze, and you will not be able to farm it. 20You will work with all your strength, but it will not do you any good. That is because your soil will not produce any crops. The trees of your land will not bear any fruit.
21“ ‘Suppose you continue to be my enemy. And suppose you still refuse to listen to me. Then I will multiply your troubles many times because of your sins. 22I will send wild animals against you. They will kill your children. They will destroy your cattle. There will be so few of you left that your roads will be deserted.
23“ ‘After all those things, suppose you still do not accept my warnings. And suppose you continue to be my enemy. 24Then I myself will be your enemy. I will make you suffer again and again for your sins. 25I will send war against you to punish you for breaking my covenant. When you go back into your cities, I will send a plague among you. You will be handed over to your enemies. 26I will cut off your supply of bread. Ten women will need only one oven to bake your bread. They will weigh out the bread piece by piece. Even when you eat all of it, it will not be enough to satisfy you.
27“ ‘After all that, suppose you still do not listen to me. And suppose you continue to be my enemy. 28Then I will be angry with you. I will be your enemy. I myself will again punish you for your sins over and over. 29You will eat the dead bodies of your sons. You will also eat the dead bodies of your daughters. 30I will destroy the high places where you worship other gods. I will pull down your incense altars. I will pile up your dead bodies on the lifeless statues of your gods. And I will turn away from you. 31I will completely destroy your cities. I will destroy your places of worship. The pleasant smell of your offerings will not give me any delight. 32I myself will destroy your land so completely that your enemies who live there will be shocked. 33I will scatter you among the nations. I will pull out my sword and hunt you down. Your land and your cities will be completely destroyed. 34Then the deserted land will enjoy its sabbath years. It will rest. It will not be farmed. It will enjoy its sabbaths. But you will become prisoners in the country of your enemies. 35The land will rest the whole time it is deserted. It was not able to rest during the sabbaths you lived in it.
36“ ‘Some of you will be left in the lands of your enemies. I will fill your hearts with fear. The sound of a leaf blown by the wind will scare you away. You will run as if you were escaping from swords. You will fall down, even though no one is chasing you. 37You will trip over one another as if you were running away from the battle. You will run away, even though no one is chasing you. You will not be able to stand and fight against your enemies. 38While you are still scattered among the nations, you will die. The lands of your enemies will destroy you. 39You who are left in those lands will become weaker and weaker. You will die because of your sins and the sins of your people who lived before you.
40“ ‘But suppose you admit that both you and your people who lived before you have sinned. You admit the evil and dishonest things you have done against me. And you admit you have become my enemy. 41What you did made me become your enemy. I let your enemies take you into their land. But suppose you stop being stubborn. You stop being proud. And you pay for your sin. 42Then I will remember my covenant with Jacob. I will remember my covenant with Isaac. I will remember my covenant with Abraham. I will remember what I said to them about the land. 43You will leave the land. It will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies deserted because you are not there. You will pay for your sins because you said no to my laws. You turned away from my rules. 44But even after all that, I will not say no to you or turn away from you. I will not destroy you completely in the land of your enemies. I will not break my covenant with you. I am the Lord your God. 45Because of you, I will remember the covenant I made with the people of Israel who lived before you. I brought them out of Egypt to be their God. The nations saw me do it. I am the Lord.’ ”
46These are the orders, the laws and the rules of the covenant the Lord made on Mount Sinai. He made it between himself and the Israelites through Moses.
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Leviticus 26
26
Blessings for Obedience
1“ ‘You#Plural throughout the entire chapter shall not make for yourselves idols and divine images, and you shall not raise up stone pillars for yourselves, and you shall not put a sculptured stone in your land in order to#Or “to” worship before it, because I am Yahweh your God.
2“ ‘You shall keep my Sabbaths, and you shall revere my sanctuary; I am Yahweh.
3“ ‘If you walk in my statutes and you keep my commands and you do them, 4then#Or “and” I will give you rains in their time, and the land shall give its produce, and the trees of the field shall give their fruit. 5And for you the threshing season shall overtake the grape harvest, and the grape harvest shall overtake the sowing, and you shall eat your food to your fill#Literally “to contentment” and you shall live securely#Literally “with confidence” in your land. 6And I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and there shall not be anybody who makes you afraid,#Literally “who makes afraid” or “making afraid” and I will remove harmful animals from the land, and no sword shall pass through your land.#Literally “a sword shall not pass through in your land” 7And you shall pursue your enemies, and they shall fall by the sword before you.#Literally “to your faces” 8And five of#Hebrew “from” you shall pursue a hundred, and a hundred of#Hebrew “from” you shall pursue a myriad;#Or “ten thousand” and your enemies shall fall by the sword before you.#Literally “to your faces” 9And I will turn to you, and I will make you fruitful, and I will make you numerous; and I will keep my covenant with you. 10And you shall eat old grain,#Literally “old what is stale” and you shall clear away the old before the new.#Literally “old from the faces of new you shall bring out” 11And I will put my dwelling place in your midst, and my inner self#Or “soul” shall not abhor you. 12And I will walk about in your midst, and I shall be your God,#Or “as a God for you” and you shall be my people.#Or “as a people for me” 13I am Yahweh, your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt, from being their slaves; and I broke the bars of your yoke, and I caused you to walk erectly.
Punishment for Disobedience
14“ ‘But#Or “And” if you do not listen to me and you do not carry out#Or “you do not do” or “you do not observe” or “you do not perform” all these commands, 15and if you reject my statutes and if your inner self#Or “soul” abhors my regulations, to not carry out#Or “do” or “observe” or “perform” all my commands by your breaking my covenant, 16I in turn#Literally “also” or “indeed” will do this to you: then#Or “and” I will summon onto you horror, the wasting disease, and the fever that wastes eyes and that drains away life; and you shall sow your seed in vain,#Literally “for the emptiness” and your enemies shall eat it. 17And I will set my face against you, and you shall be defeated before#Literally “to the faces of” your enemies; and your haters shall rule over you, and you shall flee away, but#Or “and” there shall not be anybody who is pursuing#Literally “who pursues” or “pursuing” you.
18“ ‘And if in spite of these things you do not listen to me, then#Or “and” I will continue to discipline you seven times for your sins. 19And I will break the pride of your strength; and I will make your heaven like iron#Or “iron ore” and your land like copper. 20And your strength shall be consumed in vain;#Literally “to the emptiness” and your land shall not give its produce, and the land’s trees shall not give their fruit.
21“ ‘And if you go against me in hostility and you are not willing to listen to me, then#Or “and” I will add a plague onto you seven times according to your sins. 22And I will send wild animals#Literally “the animals of the field” out among you, and they shall make you childless, and they shall cut down your domestic animals, and they shall make you fewer; and your roads shall be desolate.
23“ ‘And if you do not accept correction from#Hebrew “for” or “to” me through these things, but#Or “and” you go against me in hostility, 24then#Or “and” I myself#Emphatic personal pronoun will also go against you in hostility, and I myself#Emphatic personal pronoun also will strike you seven times for your sins. 25And I will bring upon you a sword that seeks vengeance for the covenant, and you shall be gathered to your cities; and I will send a plague in your midst, and you shall be given into the hand of an enemy. 26At my breaking the supply#Literally “staff” of bread#Or “food” for you, then#Or “and” ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall return your bread by weight; and you shall eat it, and you shall not be satisfied.
27“ ‘And if through this you do not listen to me and you go against me in hostility, 28then#Or “and” I will go against you in hostile anger, and also#Or “surely” I myself#Emphatic personal pronoun will discipline you seven times for your sins. 29And you shall eat the flesh of your sons; and the flesh of your daughters you shall eat. 30And I will destroy your high places, and I will cut down your incense altars, and I will place your corpses on your idols’ corpses; and my inner self#Or “soul” shall abhor you. 31And I will lay your cities in ruins, and I will lay waste your sanctuaries; and I shall not smell your sacrifices’#Implied by the use of the same phraseology in regard to the sacrifices in the early chapters of the book appeasing fragrance. 32And I myself#Emphatic personal pronoun will lay waste the land, and your enemies who are living in it shall be appalled over it. 33And I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw a sword behind you; and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a ruin. 34Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths all the days of its lying desolate, and you shall be in the land of your enemies; then the land shall rest, and it shall enjoy its Sabbaths. 35All the days of its lying desolate it shall rest for the time#Implied by context that it had not rested during your Sabbaths while you were living on it. 36As for#Or “And” the ones who remain among you, I will bring#Or “and I will bring” fearfulness in their hearts in the land of their enemies; and a sound of a windblown leaf shall pursue them, and they shall flee like flight before#Literally “of” a sword, and they shall fall, but#Or “and” there shall not be a pursuer. 37And they shall stumble over one another#Literally “a man on his brother” as from before#Literally “from the faces of” a sword, but#Or “and” there shall not be a pursuer; and you shall have no resistance#Literally “it shall not be for you resistance” before#Literally “to the faces of” your enemies. 38And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you. 39And because of their guilt, the ones among you who remain shall decay in the land of their enemies; and also because of the iniquities of their ancestors,#Or “fathers” they shall decay with them.
40“ ‘But#Or “And” when they confess their guilt and the guilt of their ancestors#Or “fathers” in their infidelity that they displayed against me, and moreover that they went against me in hostility— 41I myself#Emphatic personal pronoun also#Or “surely” went against them in hostility, and I brought them into the land of their enemies—or if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled and then they pay for their guilt, 42I will remember#Or “and I will remember” my covenant with Jacob; and I will remember also my covenant with Isaac and also my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land. 43And the land shall be deserted by them, and it shall enjoy its Sabbaths in its being desolate from them, and they themselves#Emphatic personal pronoun must pay for their guilt, simply because#Literally “because and in because” they rejected my regulations, and their inner self#Or “soul” abhorred my statutes. 44And in spite of#Literally “also even” or “moreover also” or “moreover even” this, when they are#Literally “in their being” in the land of their enemies I will not reject them, and I will not abhor them to destroy them, to break my covenant with them, because I am Yahweh their God. 45And I will remember the first covenant for them#Or “on behalf of them” or “on their behalf”—whom I brought out from the land of Egypt in the sight of#Literally “to the eyes of” or “for the eyes of” the nations to be their God.#Literally “to be for them for God” or “to be for them as a God” I am Yahweh.’ ”
46These are the rules and the regulations and the laws that Yahweh gave between himself and the Israelites#Literally “sons/children of Israel” on Mount Sinai#Literally “the mountain of Sinai” through#Literally “in/by the hand of” Moses.
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