Leviticus 26

1 Ye shall make you no idols, neither shall ye rear you up a graven image, or a pillar, neither shall ye place any figured stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am Jehovah your God.2 Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am Jehovah.

3 If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;4 then I will give your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.5 And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time; and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.6 And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will cause evil beasts to cease out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.7 And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.8 And 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 And I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you.10 And ye shall eat old store long kept, and ye shall bring forth the old because of the new.11 And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you.12 And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people.13 I am Jehovah your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bars of your yoke, and made you go upright.

14 But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments;15 and if ye shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhor mine ordinances, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant;16 I also will do this unto you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away; and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.17 And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be smitten before your enemies: they that hate you shall rule over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.18 And if ye will not yet for these things hearken unto me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins.19 And I will break the pride of your power: and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass;20 and your strength shall be spent in vain; for your land shall not yield its increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruit.

21 And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me, I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.22 And I will send the beast of the field among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your ways shall become desolate.23 And if by these things ye will not be reformed unto me, but will walk contrary unto me;24 then will I also walk contrary unto you; and I will smite you, even I, seven times for your sins.25 And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall execute the vengeance of the covenant; and ye shall be gathered together within your cities: and I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.26 When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.

27 And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me;28 then I will walk contrary unto you in wrath; and I also will chastise you seven times for your sins.29 And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.30 And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your sun-images, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul shall abhor you.31 And I will make your cities a waste, and will bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savor of your sweet odors.32 And I will bring the land into desolation; and your enemies that dwell therein shall be astonished at it.33 And you will I scatter among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you: and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.

34 Then shall the land enjoy its sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye are in your enemies’ land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy its sabbaths.35 As long as it lieth desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it had not in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.36 And as for them that are left of you, I will send a faintness into their heart in the lands of their enemies: and the sound of a driven leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as one fleeth from the sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.37 And they shall stumble one upon another, as it were before the sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.38 And ye shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.39 And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.

40 And they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me, and also that, because they walked contrary unto me,41 I also walked contrary unto them, and brought them into the land of their enemies: if then their uncircumcised heart be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity;42 then will I remember my covenant with Jacob; and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.43 The land also shall be left by them, and shall enjoy its sabbaths, while it lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity; because, even because they rejected mine ordinances, and their soul abhorred my statutes.44 And yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them; for I am Jehovah their God;45 but I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am Jehovah.

46 These are the statutes and ordinances and laws, which Jehovah made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by Moses.

Leviticus 26

Exhortation to Obedience

1 “‘You must not make for yourselves idols,s so you must not set up for yourselves a carved image or a pillar, and you must not place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down beforet it, for I am the Lord your God.

2 You must keep my Sabbaths and reverencet my sanctuary. I am the Lord.

The Benefits of Obedience

3 “‘If you walk in my statutes and are sure to obey my commandments,t4 I will give you your rains in their time so thatt the land will give its yield and the trees of the field will produce their fruit.t5 Threshing season will extend for you until the season for harvesting grapes,t and the season for harvesting grapes will extend until sowing season, sot you will eat your bread until you are satisfied,t and you will live securely in your land.6 I will grant peace in the land so thatt you will lie down to sleep without anyone terrifying you.t I will remove harmful animalst from the land, and no sword of wart will pass through your land.7 You will pursue your enemies and they will fall before you by the sword.t8 Five of you will pursue a hundred, and a hundred of you will pursue ten thousand, and your enemies will fall before you by the sword.9 I will turn to you, make you fruitful, multiply you, and maintaint my covenant with you.

10 You will still be eating stored produce from the previous yeart and will have to clean out what is stored from the previous year to make room for new.t
11 “‘I will put my tabernaclet in your midst and I will not abhor you.t12 I will walk among you, and I will be your God and you will be my people.

13 I am the Lord your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt, from being their slaves,t and I broke the bars of your yoke and caused you to walk upright.t

The Consequences of Disobedience

14 “‘If, however,t you do not obey me and keept all these commandments –15 if you reject my statutes and abhor my regulations so that you do not keept all my commandments and you break my covenant –16 I for my partt will do this to you: I will inflict horror on you, consumption and fever, which diminish eyesight and drain away the vitality of life.t You will sow your seed in vain becauset your enemies will eat it.t

17 I will set my face against you. You will be struck down before your enemies, those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when there is no one pursuing you.
18 “‘If, in spite of all these things,t you do not obey me, I will discipline you seven times more on account of your sins.t19 I will break your strong pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze.

20 Your strength will be used up in vain, your land will not give its yield, and the trees of the landt will not produce their fruit.
21 “‘If you walk in hostility against met and are not willing to obey me, I will increase your afflictiont seven times according to your sins.

22 I will send the wild animalst against you and they will bereave you of your children,t annihilate your cattle, and diminish your populationt so that your roads will become deserted.
23 “‘If in spite of these thingst you do not allow yourselves to be disciplined and you walk in hostility against me,t24 I myself will also walk in hostility against you and strike yout seven times on account of your sins.25 I will bring on you an avenging sword, a covenant vengeance.t Althought you will gather together into your cities, I will send pestilence among you and you will be given into enemy hands.t

26 When I break off your supply of bread,t ten women will bake your bread in one oven; they will ration your bread by weight,t and you will eat and not be satisfied.
27 “‘If in spite of thist you do not obey me but walk in hostility against me,t28 I will walk in hostile rage against yout and I myself will also discipline you seven times on account of your sins.29 You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters.t30 I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars,s and I will stack your dead bodies on top of the lifeless bodies of your idols.t I will abhor you.t31 I will lay your cities wastet and make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will refuse to smell your soothing aromas.32 I myself will make the land desolate and your enemies who live in it will be appalled.

33 I will scatter you among the nations and unsheathe the swordt after you, so your land will become desolate and your cities will become a waste.
34 “‘Then the land will make up fort its Sabbaths all the days it lies desolate while you are in the land of your enemies; then the land will rest and make up its Sabbaths.

35 All the days of the desolation it will have the rest it did not havet on your Sabbaths when you lived on it.
36 “‘As fort the ones who remain among you, I will bring despair into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a blowing leaf will pursue them, and they will flee as one who flees the sword and fall down even though there is no pursuer.37 They will stumble over each other as those who flee before a sword, thought there is no pursuer, and there will be no one to take a standt for you before your enemies.

38 You will perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will consume you.

Restoration through Confession and Repentance

39 “‘As for the ones who remain among you, they will rot away because oft their iniquity in the lands of your enemies, and they will also rot away because of their ancestors’t iniquities which are with them.40 However, whent they confess their iniquity and their ancestors’ iniquity which they committed by trespassing against me,t by which they also walkedt in hostility against met41 (and I myself will walk in hostility against them and bring them into the land of their enemies), andt then their uncircumcised hearts become humbled and they make up fort their iniquity,42 I will remember my covenant with Jacob and also my covenant with Isaac and also my covenant with Abraham,t and I will remember the land.43 The land will be abandoned by themt in order that it may make up fort its Sabbaths while it is made desolatet without them,t and they will make up for their iniquity becauset they have rejected my regulations and have abhorredt my statutes.44 In spite of this, however, when they are in the land of their enemies I will not reject them and abhor them to make a complete end of them, to break my covenant with them, for I am the Lord their God.

45 I will remember for them the covenant with their ancestorsts whom I brought out from the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations to be their God. I am the Lord.’”

Summary Colophon

46 These are the statutes, regulations, and instructions which the Lord establishedt between himself and the Israelites at Mount Sinai throught Moses.