Vayikra 26
26
1Ye shall not make for you elilim or pesel or set up matzevah, neither shall ye set up even maskit (carved stone) in your land, lehishtachavot (to bow down) unto it: for I am Hashem Eloheichem.
[BECHUKKOTAI]
2Ye shall be shomer over My Shabbatot, and reverence My Mikdash: I am Hashem.
3If ye walk in My chukkot, and be shomer over My mitzvot, and do them;
4Then I will give you geshem in due season, and HaAretz shall yield her increase, and the etz hasadeh shall yield his pri.
5And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your lechem to the full, and dwell in your land safely.
6And I will give shalom in HaAretz, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will rid the savage beast out of HaAretz, neither shall the cherev pass through your land.
7And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the cherev.
8And five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the cherev.
9For I will look upon you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and confirm My Brit (Covenant) with you.
10And ye shall be eating the old harvest when you move out the yashan because of the chadash.
11And I set My Mishkan among you: and My Nefesh shall not abhor you.
12And I will walk among you, and will be Elohim to you, and ye shall be My people.
13I am Hashem Eloheichem, which brought you forth out of Eretz Mitzrayim, that ye should not be their avadim; and I have broken the bars of your yoke, and made you walk head held high.
14But if ye will not pay heed unto Me, and will not do all these mitzvot,
15And if ye shall despise My chukkot, or if your nefesh abhor My mishpatim, so that ye will not do all My mitzvot, but that ye violate My Brit (Covenant),
16I also will do this unto you: I will even visit upon you terror, wasting disease, and the burning fever, that shall consume the eyes, and drain the nefesh: and ye shall sow your zera in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
17And I will set My Face against you, and ye shall be struck down before your enemies. They that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none rodef (pursue, persecute) you.
18And if ye will not yet for all this pay heed unto Me, then I will punish you seven times more for your chattot.
19And I will break the ga'on (pride) of your stubbornness; and I will make your skies as barzel, and your soil as bronze;
20And your ko'ach shall be spent in vain; for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the etz HaAretz yield their pri.
21And if ye remain walking contrary unto Me, and will not pay heed unto Me, I will bring seven times more makkah (plagues) upon you according to your chattot (sins).
22I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and darkheichem (your roads, ways) shall be deserted.
23And if ye will not be corrected by Me, but will walk keri (contrary, hostile) unto Me,
24Then will I also walk b'keri (contrary, hostile) unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your chattot.
25And I will bring a cherev upon you, that shall avenge Nekam Brit (Vengeance of My Covenant); and when ye are gathered together within your towns, I will send the dever (pestilence) among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
26And when I have broken the matteh (staff, supply) of your lechem, eser nashim shall bake your lechem in one oven, and they shall dole out your lechem by weight; and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.
27And if ye will not for all this pay heed unto Me, but walk b'keri (contrary, hostile) unto Me,
28Then I will walk keri unto you also in chamat (fury); and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your chattot.
29And ye shall eat the basar of your banim, and the basar of your banot shall ye eat.
30And I will destroy your high places, and cut down chammaneichem (your pillars for worshiping the sun), and cast your carcasses upon the carcasses of your idols, and My Nefesh shall abhor you.
31And I will turn your cities into ruins, and bring mikdesheichem (your sanctuaries) unto desolation, and I will not take delight in your re'ach nicho'ach.
32And I will bring HaAretz into desolation; and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at her.
33And I will scatter you among the Goyim, and will draw out a cherev after you; and your land shall be desolate, and your cities ruin.
34Then shall HaAretz enjoy her Shabbatot, as long as she lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemiesʼ land; even then shall HaAretz rest, and enjoy her Shabbatot.
35As long as she lieth desolate she shall rest, because she did not rest in your Shabbatot, when ye dwelt upon her.
36And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a fearful faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a cherev; and they shall fall v'ein rodef (when none pursueth, persecutes).
37And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a cherev, when none pursueth; and ye shall have no standing place before your enemies.
38And ye shall perish among the Goyim, and the eretz of your enemies shall eat you up.
39And they that are left of you shall waste away in their avon in your enemiesʼ lands; and also in the iniquities of their avot shall they waste away with them.
40V'hitvadu (if they shall confess) their avon, and the avon of their avot, with their treachery in which they were treacherous against Me, and that also they have walked b'keri (contrary, hostile) unto Me;
41And that I also have walked b'keri unto them, and have brought them into the eretz of their enemies; if then their levav he'arel (uncircumcised hearts) be humbled, and they then accept their avon guilt,#26:41 i.e., accept the punishment of their iniquity
42Then will I remember My Brit (covenant) with Ya'akov, and also My Brit (covenant) with Yitzchak, and also My Brit (covenant) with Avraham will I remember; and I will remember HaAretz.
43HaAretz also shall be deserted by them, and shall enjoy her Shabbatot, while she lieth desolate without them; and they shall accept their avon:#26:43 accept the punishment of their iniquity because, even because they despised My mishpatim, and because their nefesh abhorred My chukkot.
44And yet for all that, when they be in the eretz of their enemies, I will not cast them away,#26:44 i.e., reject them neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break My Brit (covenant) with them: for I am Hashem Eloheichem.
45But I will for their sakes remember the Brit Rishonim (covenant of their ancestors) whom I brought forth out of Eretz Mitzrayim in the sight of the Goyim, that I might be Elohim to them: I am Hashem.
46These are the chukkim and mishpatim and torot, which Hashem made between Him and the Bnei Yisroel in Mt. Sinai by the hand of Moshe.
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THE ORTHODOX JEWISH BIBLE
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Leviticus 26
26
Blessings for Obedience
1“You shall not make #See ch. 19:4 idols for yourselves or erect an #See Ex. 20:4, 5 image or #Ex. 23:24 pillar, and you shall not set up a #Num. 33:52; [Ezek. 8:10]figured stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the Lord your God. 2#ch. 19:30; See Ex. 20:8You shall keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.
3 #
Deut. 11:13-15; 28:1-14; See ch. 18:4 “If you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them, 4then #Ps. 67:6; 85:12; Ezek. 34:26, 27; 36:30; Joel 2:23, 24; Zech. 8:12; [ver. 20; Deut. 11:17]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. 5#[Amos 9:13] Your threshing shall last to the time of the grape harvest, and the grape harvest shall last to the time for sowing. And #See ch. 25:19 you shall eat your bread to the full and #See ch. 25:18dwell in your land securely. 6#[1 Kgs. 4:25; 1 Chr. 22:9] I will give peace in the land, and #Job 11:19; Jer. 30:10; Zeph. 3:13 you shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid. And #Ezek. 34:25; [2 Kgs. 17:25; Isa. 35:9; Ezek. 5:17; 14:15] I will remove harmful beasts from the land, #[Ezek. 14:17]and the sword shall not go through your land. 7You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword. 8#[Deut. 32:30; Josh. 23:10; Isa. 30:17]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. 9#2 Kgs. 13:23 I will turn to you and #Neh. 9:23make you fruitful and multiply you and will confirm my covenant with you. 10You shall eat #ch. 25:22old store long kept, and you shall clear out the old to make way for the new. 11#Ezek. 37:26-28; [Rev. 21:3]I will make my dwelling#26:11 Hebrew tabernacle among you, and my soul shall not abhor you. 12#Ex. 29:45; Cited 2 Cor. 6:16 And I #Jer. 7:23; 11:4; 24:7; 30:22; Ezek. 11:20; 14:11; 36:28; 37:27; See Ex. 6:7will walk among you and will be your God, and you shall be my people. 13#See ch. 25:38 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves. #Ezek. 34:27; [Jer. 27:2; 28:10, 13]And I have broken the bars of your yoke and made you walk erect.
Punishment for Disobedience
14 # [Lam. 2:17; Mal. 2:2]; See Deut. 28:15-68 “But if you will not listen to me and will not do all these commandments, 15if you spurn my statutes, and if your soul abhors my rules, so that you will not do all my commandments, but #ver. 44; Deut. 31:20break my covenant, 16then I will do this to you: I will visit you with panic, with #Deut. 28:21 wasting disease and fever that consume the eyes and make the heart ache. And #Deut. 28:33, 51; Job 31:8; Jer. 5:17; Mic. 6:15you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. 17I will #See ch. 17:10 set my face against you, and #Deut. 28:25; Judg. 2:14; Jer. 19:7 you shall be struck down before your enemies. #Ps. 106:41 Those who hate you shall rule over you, and #Prov. 28:1; [ver. 36; Ps. 53:5]you shall flee when none pursues you. 18And if in spite of this you will not listen to me, then I will discipline you again #ver. 21, 24, 28; 1 Sam. 2:5; Ps. 119:164; Prov. 24:16sevenfold for your sins, 19and I will break #Ezek. 30:6; [Jer. 13:9] the pride of your power, and I #Deut. 28:23will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze. 20And #[Ps. 127:1; Isa. 49:4] your strength shall be spent in vain, for #[Hag. 1:10]; See ver. 4your land shall not yield its increase, and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.
21 # ver. 27 “Then if you walk contrary to me and will not listen to me, I will continue striking you, sevenfold for your sins. 22And #Deut. 32:24; See ver. 6 I will let loose the wild beasts against you, which shall bereave you of your children and destroy your livestock and make you few in number, so that #Judg. 5:6; Isa. 33:8; Lam. 1:4; Zech. 7:14your roads shall be deserted.
23“And #Jer. 2:30; 5:3; See Amos 4:6-12 if by this discipline you are not turned to me #[See ver. 21 above]but walk contrary to me, 24#2 Sam. 22:27; Ps. 18:26then I also will walk contrary to you, and I myself will strike you sevenfold for your sins. 25And #Deut. 32:25; Jer. 14:12; 24:10; 29:17, 18; Ezek. 5:17; 6:3; 14:17; 29:8; 33:2 I will bring a sword upon you, that shall execute vengeance for the covenant. And if you gather within your cities, #Num. 14:12; Deut. 28:21I will send pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy. 26#Ps. 105:16; Isa. 3:1; Ezek. 4:16; 5:16; 14:13 When I break your supply#26:26 Hebrew staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in a single oven and shall dole out your bread again by weight, and #Isa. 9:20; Mic. 6:14; Hag. 1:6you shall eat and not be satisfied.
27“But #ver. 21, 24if in spite of this you will not listen to me, but walk contrary to me, 28then I will walk contrary to you #Isa. 59:18; 63:3; 66:15; Jer. 21:5; Ezek. 5:13, 15; 8:18 in fury, and I myself will discipline you #[See ver. 18 above]sevenfold for your sins. 29#Deut. 28:53; Ezek. 5:10; [2 Kgs. 6:29; Lam. 4:10]You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters. 30And #2 Chr. 14:5; 34:3, 4, 7; See Ezek. 6:3-6 I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars and #[2 Kgs. 23:20; 2 Chr. 34:5; Ezek. 6:5]cast your dead bodies upon the dead bodies of your idols, and my soul will abhor you. 31And I will #Neh. 2:3; Jer. 4:7; See 2 Kgs. 25:4-10 lay your cities waste and will #Ps. 74:7; Lam. 1:10; Ezek. 9:6; 21:2 make your sanctuaries desolate, and #Jer. 6:20; See Isa. 1:11-15; Amos 5:21-23I will not smell your pleasing aromas. 32And #Jer. 9:11; 25:11, 18 I myself will devastate the land, so that your enemies who settle in it shall be #Deut. 28:37; 1 Kgs. 9:8; Jer. 18:16; 19:8; Ezek. 5:15appalled at it. 33And #Deut. 4:27; 28:64; Neh. 1:8; Ps. 44:11; Jer. 9:16; Ezek. 12:15; 20:23; 22:15; Zech. 7:14; [Luke 21:24]I will scatter you among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword after you, and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.
34 #
2 Chr. 36:21; See ch. 25:2 “Then the land shall enjoy#26:34 Or pay for; twice in this verse; also verse 43 its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate, while you are in your enemies’ land; then the land shall rest, and enjoy its Sabbaths. 35As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, the rest that it did not have on your Sabbaths when you were dwelling in it. 36And as for those of you who are left, #Ezek. 21:7 I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The #ver. 17 sound of a #Job 13:25driven leaf shall put them to flight, and they shall flee as one flees from the sword, and they shall fall when none pursues. 37They shall stumble over one another, as if to escape a sword, though none pursues. And #Josh. 7:12, 13; Judg. 2:14you shall have no power to stand before your enemies. 38And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up. 39And those of you who are left shall #Deut. 28:65; Ezek. 4:17; 24:23; 33:10; [Ezek. 6:9]rot away in your enemies’ lands because of their iniquity, and also because of the iniquities of their fathers they shall rot away like them.
40“But if #[Neh. 9:2; Prov. 28:13; 1 John 1:9]; See 1 Kgs. 8:33-36; Dan. 9:4-19 they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers in their treachery that they #ch. 6:2; Num. 5:6committed against me, and also in walking contrary to me, 41so that I walked contrary to them and brought them into the land of their enemies—if then their #See Ex. 6:12 uncircumcised heart is #[1 Kgs. 21:29; 2 Chr. 12:6, 7; 32:26; 33:12, 13]humbled and they make amends for their iniquity, 42then I will #Ex. 2:24; 6:5; Ps. 106:45; Ezek. 16:60 remember my covenant with Jacob, and I will remember my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will #[Ps. 85:1]remember the land. 43But #[See ver. 34 above]the land shall be abandoned by them and enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them, and they shall make amends for their iniquity, because they spurned my rules and their soul abhorred my statutes. 44Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, #[Deut. 4:31; 2 Kgs. 13:23; Neh. 9:31; Rom. 11:2] I will not spurn them, neither will I abhor them so as to destroy them utterly and #ver. 15break my covenant with them, for I am the Lord their God. 45But I will for their sake remember the covenant with their forefathers, #ch. 22:33 whom I brought out of the land of Egypt #Ps. 98:2; Ezek. 20:9, 22in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am the Lord.”
46 # ch. 27:34; Deut. 6:1; 12:1 These are the statutes and rules and laws that the Lord made between himself and the people of Israel through Moses #ch. 25:1on Mount Sinai.
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