Leviticus 26
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1“Don't make yourselves idols anywhere in your land and bow down to worship them, whether they are images or sacred pillars or stone sculptures. For I am the Lord your God.
2Keep my Sabbaths and show respect for my sanctuary. I am the Lord.
3If you follow my rules and keep my regulations, 4I will make sure it rains at the right time so that the ground will grow good crops and the fruit trees will be productive. 5Your time of threshing will last right up to the grape harvest, and the grape harvest until the time you have to sow again. You will have more than enough to eat and you will live in safety in your land. 6I will make sure your land is at peace. You will be able to sleep without being afraid of anything. I will get rid of dangerous animals from the land, and you will not suffer from any violent enemy attacks.#26:6. “You will not suffer from any violent attacks”: literally, “a sword will not pass through your land.” 7You will chase your enemies, and kill them with the sword. 8Five of you will kill one hundred, and one hundred of you will kill ten thousand. You will destroy your enemies.
9I will come to help you, so you will reproduce and increase in numbers, and I will confirm my agreement with you. 10You'll still be eating your old stock of grain when you need to get rid of it so you can store the new grain. 11I will come and live with you—I certainly won't reject you. 12I shall always be right there with you. I will be your God, and you will be my people. 13I am the Lord your God, who led you out of Egypt so you wouldn't have to be slaves to the Egyptians any longer. I smashed the yoke that kept you bent down and helped you to stand up straight.
14But if you don't pay attention to me and do what I tell you; 15if you reject my laws, hate my regulations, and refuse to follow my commandments, and consequently break my agreement, 16then this is what I am going to do to you: I will make you panic, and suffer from diseases like tuberculosis and fever that make you blind and drain your life away. It will be pointless for you to sow seed in your fields because your enemies will eat the harvest. 17I will turn against you, and you'll be defeated by your enemies. People who hate you will rule over you, and you'll run away even when there's no one chasing you!
18If after all this you still refuse to obey me, I will move to punishing you seven times over for your sins. 19I will break your self-reliant strength you're so proud of, and make your sky hard as iron and your land hard as bronze. 20Your strength will be completely wasted#26:20. In other words attempts to cultivate the land will be pointless. because your land won't produce crops, and your trees won't produce fruit.
21If you go on opposing me and refusing to do what I tell you, I will make your punishments seven times worse, based on your sins. 22I will send wild animals to kill your children, wipe out your livestock, and make you so few in number that there won't be anyone on your roads.
23However, if in spite of all this correction you still don't change but go on opposing me, 24then I will take action against you. I will punish you seven times over for your sins. 25I will send enemies with swords to attack you in retaliation for breaking the agreement. Even though you retreat into your towns for defense, I will plague you with disease, and you will be handed over to your enemies. 26I will send a famine so bread is in short supply. One oven will serve the needs of ten women baking bread. It will be distributed by weight so that you'll eat but won't have enough.
27However, if in spite of all this you don't obey me, but go on opposing me, 28then I will take action against you in a rage of fury, and I will punish you myself seven times over for your sins. 29You will eat the bodies of your own sons and daughters. 30I will destroy your high places#26:30. “High places”: often associated with idol worship. of worship, smash your altars of incense, and pile up your dead bodies on what remains of your idols, which also have no life at all. I will really despise you. 31I will demolish your towns and destroy your pagan sanctuaries, and I will refuse to accept your sacrifices. 32I will devastate your land myself, so that your enemies who come and live in it will be horrified at what has happened. 33I'm going to scatter you among the nations. You will be chased out by armies with swords as your land is ruined and your towns are destroyed. 34At least then the land will be able to enjoy its Sabbaths all the time it's abandoned while you are in exile in the land of your enemies. The land will finally be able to rest and enjoy its Sabbaths. 35The whole time it's abandoned the land will observe the Sabbaths of rest that it wasn't able to do while you were living there.#26:35. Another rebuke since clearly the rule about leaving the ground uncultivated one year in seven was not properly observed.
36I will make those of you who survive so discouraged that as you live in the lands of your enemies even the sound of a leaf blowing in the wind will scare you into running away! You'll run away like you're being chased by someone with a sword, and fall down even though no one is after you. 37You'll trip over each other as you run away from the attack, even though no one's there. You'll have no power to resist your enemies. 38You'll die in exile and you'll be buried in a foreign country. 39Those of you who do manage to survive in the countries of your enemies will wither away because of their guilt, decaying as they share the sins of their fathers.
40They need to confess their sins and those of their fathers, acting in such an unfaithful way towards me, opposing me. 41Because of this I took action against them and exiled them in the countries of their enemies. However, if they humbly give up their stubborn attitude and accept their punishment for their sins, 42then I will fulfill the agreement I made with Jacob, Isaac, and Abraham, and I will not forget my promise about the land. 43For the land will be left empty by them, and it will enjoy its Sabbaths being abandoned. They will pay for their sins, because they rejected my rules and regulations.
44But despite all this, even while they are living in land of their enemies, I will not reject or hate them so much as to destroy them and break my agreement with them, because I am the Lord their God. 45Because of them I will renew the agreement I made with their fathers, those I led out of Egypt as the other nations watched, in order that I might be their God. I am the Lord.”
46These are the rules, regulations, and laws that the Lord set up between himself and the Israelites through Moses on Mount Sinai.
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Leviticus 26
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Rewards for Obedience
1#Lev 19:4; Ex 23:24; 20:4–5You shall not make for yourselves idols; neither set up a carved image nor a standing stone, nor shall you set up any sculpted stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the Lord your God.
2#Lev 19:30You shall keep My Sabbaths and reverence My sanctuary: I am the Lord.
3#Dt 28:1–14; 11:13–15If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments and do them, 4#Ps 67:6; 85:12then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. 5#Am 9:13; Lev 25:18–19Your threshing shall last till the grape harvest, and the grape harvest shall last till the time for sowing, and you shall eat your bread till you are full and dwell in your land safely.
6#Isa 35:9; Jer 30:10I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down for sleep, and none shall make you afraid; I will remove harmful beasts from the land, and the sword shall not go through your land. 7You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword. 8#Dt 32:30; Jos 23:10Five 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 sword.
9#Ge 17:6–7; Ne 9:23I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will confirm My covenant with you. 10#Lev 25:22You shall eat the old harvest long stored, and clear out the old to make way for the new. 11#Ex 25:8; 29:45I will set My tabernacle among you, and I shall not abhor you. 12#2Co 6:16; Ge 3:8I will walk among you, and I will be your God, and you shall be My people. 13#Eze 34:27; Ex 20:2I am the Lord your God, who brought you 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 walk upright.
Punishment for Disobedience
14#Dt 28:15–68; Mal 2:2But if you will not listen to Me, and will not do all these commandments, 15#2Ki 17:15if you despise My statutes, or if you abhor My judgments, so that you will not do all My commandments, but you break My covenant, 16#Job 31:8; 1Sa 2:33then I will do this to you: I will visit you with terror, with wasting disease, and with a fever that shall consume the eyes and cause sorrow of heart, and you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. 17#Ps 53:5; Lev 17:10I will set My face against you, and you shall be slain before your enemies. They that hate you shall reign over you, and you shall flee when none pursues you.
18#Lev 26:21; 26:24If you will not yet listen to Me after all this, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins. 19#Dt 28:23; Isa 25:11I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your heaven as iron and your land as bronze. 20#Ps 127:1; Isa 49:4Your strength shall be spent in vain, for your land shall not yield her increase, nor shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.
21If you continue to walk contrary to Me and will not listen to Me, I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins. 22#Dt 32:24; Jdg 5:6I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number. And your roads shall be desolate.
23#Jer 5:3; 2:30And if by these things you are not turned to Me, but walk contrary to Me, 24#2Sa 22:27; Ps 18:26then I will also walk contrary to you and will punish you yet seven times for your sins. 25#Nu 14:12; Eze 5:17I will bring a sword upon you that shall extract vengeance for My covenant. And when you are gathered together within your cities, I will send pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy. 26#Isa 3:1; Mic 6:14When I have broken the supply of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall ration your bread again by weight, and you shall eat and not be satisfied.
27#Lev 26:21; 26:24If you will not listen to Me for all this, but walk contrary to Me, 28#Isa 59:18; 63:3then I will walk contrary to you also in fury, and I Myself will chastise you seven times for your sins. 29#La 4:10; Eze 5:10You shall eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters. 30#2Ki 23:20; Isa 27:9I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your funeral offerings on the lifeless forms of your idols, and I shall abhor you. 31#Ne 2:3; 2Ki 25:4–10I will make your cities a waste and bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not smell the savor of your fragrant offerings. 32#Jer 9:11; 18:16I will bring the land into desolation, and your enemies that dwell there shall be astonished at it. 33#Dt 4:27; Eze 20:23I will scatter you among the nations and I will draw out a sword after you. And your land shall be desolate and your cities a waste. 34#2Ch 36:21Then the land shall enjoy 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 rest because it did not rest during your sabbaths when you lived upon it.
36#Eze 21:7; Lev 26:17And on those who are left alive of you I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall make them flee, and they shall flee as from a sword, and they shall fall when no one pursues. 37#Jos 7:12–13; Jdg 2:14They shall fall one upon one another, as to escape before the sword, though no one pursues, and you shall have no power to stand before your enemies. 38You shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall consume you. 39#Eze 4:17; 33:10And those who are left of you shall rot away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands, and also because of the iniquities of their fathers, they shall rot away with them.
40#1Ki 8:33–36; Pr 28:13But if they confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their treachery that they committed against Me, and also that they have walked contrary to Me, 41#Eze 44:7; Ac 7:51and that I also have walked contrary to them and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts are humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity, 42#Ex 2:24; 6:5then will I remember My covenant with Jacob, and also My covenant with Isaac, and also My covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land. 43#Lev 26:15But the land shall be abandoned by them, and enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them. They shall make amends for their iniquity, because they despised My judgments and because they abhorred My statutes. 44#Ro 11:2; 2Ki 13:23Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, nor will I abhor them to destroy them utterly and to break My covenant with them, for I am the Lord their God. 45#Lev 22:33; 25:38But 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.
46#Lev 27:34; 25:1These are the statutes and judgments and laws that the Lord made between Himself and the children of Israel on Mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.
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