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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Wayyiqra (Leviticus) 26
26
1‘Do not make idols for yourselves, and do not set up a carved image or a pillar for yourselves, and do not place a stone image in your land, to bow down to it. For I am יהוה your Elohim.
2‘Guard My Sabbaths and reverence My set-apart place. I am יהוה.
3‘If you walk in My laws and guard My commands, and shall do them,
4then I shall give you rain in its season, and the land shall yield its crops, and the trees of the field yield their fruit.
5‘And your threshing shall last till the time of the grape harvest, and the grape harvest shall last till the time of sowing. And you shall eat your bread until you have enough, and shall dwell in your land safely.
6‘And I shall give peace in the land, and you shall lie down and no one make you afraid. And I shall clear the land of evil beasts, and not let the sword go through your land.
7‘And you shall pursue your enemies, and they shall fall by the sword before you.
8‘And five of you shall pursue a hundred, and a hundred of you pursue ten thousand. And your enemies shall fall by the sword before you.
9‘And I shall turn to you and make you fruitful, and shall increase you, and shall establish My covenant with you.
10‘And you shall eat the old supply, and clear out the old because of the new.
11‘And I shall set My Dwelling Place in your midst, and My being shall not reject you.
12‘And I shall walk in your midst, and shall be your Elohim, and you shall be My people.
13‘I am יהוה your Elohim, who brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim, from being their slaves. And I have broken the bars of your yoke and made you walk upright.
14‘But if you do not obey Me, and do not do all these commands,
15and if you reject My laws, or if your being loathes My right-rulings, so that you do not do all My commands, but break My covenant,
16I also do this to you: And I shall appoint sudden alarm over you, wasting disease and inflammation, destroying the eyes, and consuming the life. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
17‘And I shall set My face against you, and you shall be smitten before your enemies. And those who hate you shall rule over you, and you shall flee when no one pursues you.
18‘And after all this, if you do not obey Me, then I shall punish you seven times more for your sins.
19‘And I shall break the pride of your power, and shall make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze.
20‘And your strength shall be spent in vain and your land not yield its crops, nor the trees of the land yield their fruit.
21‘And if you walk contrary to Me, and refuse to obey Me, I shall bring on you seven times more plagues, according to your sins,
22and send wild beasts among you, which shall bereave you of your children. And I shall cut off your livestock, and make you few in number, and your highways shall be deserted.
23‘And if you are not instructed by Me by these, but walk contrary to Me,
24then I also shall walk contrary to you, and I Myself shall strike you seven times for your sins.
25‘And I shall bring against you a sword executing the vengeance of My covenant, and you shall gather together in your cities, and I shall send pestilence among you, and you shall be given into the hand of the enemy.
26‘When I have cut off your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall bring back to you your bread by weight, and you shall eat and not be satisfied.
27‘And if in spite of this, you do not obey Me, but walk contrary to Me,
28then I shall walk contrary to you in wrath. And I Myself shall punish you seven times for your sins.
29‘And you shall eat the flesh of your sons, and eat the flesh of your daughters.
30‘And I shall destroy your high places, and cut down your sun-pillars, and put your carcasses on the carcasses of your idols. And My being shall loathe you.
31‘And I shall turn your cities into ruins and lay your set-apart places waste, and not smell your sweet fragrances.
32‘And I shall lay the land waste, and your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished at it.
33‘And I shall scatter you among the nations and draw out a sword after you. And your land shall be desert and your cities ruins,
34and the land enjoy its Sabbaths as long as it lies waste and you are in your enemies’ land. Then the land would rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.
35‘As long as it lies waste it rests, for the time it did not rest on your Sabbaths when you dwelt in it.
36‘And as for those of you who are left, I shall send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, and the sound of a shaken leaf shall cause them to flee. And they shall flee as though retreating from a sword, and they shall fall when no one pursues.
37‘And they shall stumble over one another, as from before a sword, when no one pursues. And you shall be unable to stand before your enemies.
38‘And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up,
39and those of you who are left rot away in their crookedness in your enemies’ lands, and also in their fathers’ crookednesses rot away with them.
40‘But if they confess their crookedness and the crookedness of their fathers, with their trespass in which they trespassed against Me, and that they also have walked contrary to Me,
41and that I also have walked contrary to them and have brought them into the land of their enemies – if their uncircumcised heart is then humbled, and they accept the punishment of their crookedness,
42then I shall remember My covenant with Ya‛aqoḇ, and also My covenant with Yitsḥaq, and also remember My covenant with Aḇraham, and remember the land.
43‘For the land was abandoned by them, and enjoying its Sabbaths while lying waste without them, and they were paying for their crookedness, because they rejected My right-rulings and because their being loathed My laws.
44‘And yet for all this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I shall not reject them, nor shall I loathe them so as to destroy them and break My covenant with them. For I am יהוה their Elohim.
45‘Then I shall remember for their sake the covenant of the ancestors whom I brought out of the land of Mitsrayim before the eyes of the nations to be their Elohim. I am יהוה.’ ”
46These are the laws and the right-rulings and the Torot#Torot - plural of Torah - teaching. which יהוה made between Himself and the children of Yisra’ĕl on Mount Sinai by the hand of Mosheh.
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