Leviticus 26
26
Blessings for Obedience
(Deut 7.12–24; 28.1–14)
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Ex 20.4; Lev 19.4; Deut 5.8; 16.21–22; 27.1 The LORD said, “Do not make idols or set up statues, stone pillars, or carved stones to worship. I am the LORD your God. 2Keep the religious festivals and honour the place where I am worshipped. I am the LORD.
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Deut 11.13–15; 28.1–14 “If you live according to my laws and obey my commands, 4I will send you rain at the right time, so that the land will produce crops and the trees will bear fruit. 5Your crops will be so plentiful that you will still be harvesting corn when it is time to pick grapes, and you will still be picking grapes when it is time to sow corn. You will have all that you want to eat, and you will live in safety in your land.
6“I will give you peace in your land, and you will sleep without being afraid of anyone. I will get rid of the dangerous animals in the land, and there will be no more war there. 7You will be victorious over your enemies; 8five of you will be able to defeat a hundred, and a hundred will be able to defeat 10,000. 9I will bless you and give you many children; I will keep my part of the covenant that I made with you. 10Your harvests will be so plentiful that they will last for a year, and even then you will have to throw away what is left of the old harvest to make room for the new. 11I will live among you in my sacred tent, and I will never turn away from you. 12#2 Cor 6.16I will be with you; I will be your God, and you will be my people. 13I, the LORD your God, brought you out of Egypt so that you would no longer be slaves. I broke the power that held you down and I let you walk with your head held high.”
Punishment for Disobedience
(Deut 28.15–68)
14The LORD said, “If you will not obey my commands, you will be punished. 15If you refuse to obey my laws and commands and break the covenant I have made with you, 16I will punish you. I will bring disaster on you — incurable diseases and fevers that will make you blind and cause your life to waste away. You will sow your seed, but it will do you no good, because your enemies will conquer you and eat what you have grown. 17I will turn against you, so that you will be defeated, and those who hate you will rule over you; you will be so terrified that you will run when no one is chasing you.
18“If even after all this you still do not obey me, I will increase your punishment seven times. 19I will break your stubborn pride; there will be no rain, and your land will be dry and as hard as iron. 20All your hard work will do you no good, because your land will not produce crops and the trees will not bear fruit.
21“If you still continue to resist me and refuse to obey me, I will again increase your punishment seven times. 22I will send dangerous animals among you, and they will kill your children, destroy your livestock, and leave so few of you that your roads will be deserted.
23“If after all this punishment you still do not listen to me, but continue to defy me, 24then I will turn on you and punish you seven times harder than before. 25I will bring war on you to punish you for breaking our covenant, and if you gather in your cities for safety, I will send incurable diseases among you, and you will be forced to surrender to your enemies. 26I will cut off your food supply, so that ten women will need only one oven to bake all the bread they have. They will ration it out, and when you have eaten it all, you will still be hungry.
27“If after all this you still continue to defy me and refuse to obey me, 28then in my anger I will turn on you and again make your punishment seven times worse than before. 29Your hunger will be so great that you will eat your own children. 30I will destroy your places of worship on the hills, tear down your incense altars, and throw your dead bodies on your fallen idols. In utter disgust 31I will turn your cities into ruins, destroy your places of worship, and refuse to accept your sacrifices. 32I will destroy your land so completely that the enemies who occupy it will be shocked at the destruction. 33I will bring war on you and scatter you in foreign lands. Your land will be deserted, and your cities left in ruins. 34-35Then the land will enjoy the years of complete rest that you would not give it; it will lie abandoned and get its rest while you are in exile in the land of your enemies.
36“I will make those of you who are in exile so terrified that the sound of a leaf blowing in the wind will make you run. You will run as if you were being pursued in battle, and you will fall when there is no enemy near you. 37You will stumble over one another when no one is chasing you, and you will be unable to fight against any enemy. 38You will die in exile, swallowed up by the land of your enemies. 39The few of you who survive in the land of your enemies will waste away because of your own sin and the sin of your ancestors.
40“But your descendants will confess their sins and the sins of their ancestors, who resisted me and rebelled against me, 41and made me turn against them and send them into exile in the land of their enemies. At last, when your descendants are humbled and they have paid the penalty for their sin and rebellion, 42#Gen 17.7–8; 26.3–4; 28.13–14I will remember my covenant with Jacob and with Isaac and with Abraham, and I will renew my promise to give my people the land. 43First, however, the land must be rid of its people, so that it can enjoy its complete rest, and they must pay the full penalty for having rejected my laws and my commands. 44But even then, when they are still in the land of their enemies, I will not completely abandon or destroy them. That would put an end to my covenant with them, and I am the LORD their God. 45I will renew the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I showed all the nations my power by bringing my people out of Egypt, in order that I, the LORD, might be their God.”
46All these are the laws and commands that the LORD gave to Moses on Mount Sinai for the people of Israel.
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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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