Leviticus, 26

1. ' "You will not make idols for yourselves; you will not erect statues or cultic stones, or erect carved stones in your country, for you to worship: for I, Yahweh, am your God.

1. Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up [any] image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I [am] the LORD your God.

2. You will keep my Sabbaths and revere my sanctuary. I am Yahweh.

2. Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I [am] the LORD.

3. "If you live according to my laws, if you keep my commandments and put them into practice,

3. If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;

4. I shall give you the rain you need at the right time; the soil will yield its produce and the trees of the countryside their fruit;

4. Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

5. you will thresh until vintage time and gather grapes until sowing time. You will eat your fill of bread and live secure in your land.

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. "I shall give peace in the land, and you will go to sleep with no one to frighten you. I shall rid the land of beasts of prey. The sword will not pass through your land.

6. And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make [you] afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.

7. You will pursue your enemies and they will fall before your sword;

7. And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.

8. five of you pursuing a hundred of them, one hundred pursuing ten thousand; and your enemies will fall before your sword.

8. And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.

9. "I shall turn towards you, I shall make you fertile and make your numbers grow, and I shall uphold my covenant with you.

9. For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.

10. "Having eaten all you need of last year's harvest, you will throw out the old to make room for the new.

10. And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new.

11. "I shall fix my home among you and never reject you.

11. And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you.

12. I shall live among you; I shall be your God and you will be my people,

12. And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people.

13. I, Yahweh your God, who brought you out of Egypt so that you should be their slaves no longer, and who broke the bonds of your yoke and made you walk with head held high.

13. I [am] the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright.

14. "But if you will not listen to me and do not put all these commandments into practice,

14. But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments;

15. if you reject my laws and detest my customs, and you break my covenant by not putting all my commandments into practice,

15. And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, [but] that ye break my covenant:

16. this is how I shall treat you: "I shall subject you to terror, consumption and fever, making you dim of sight and short of breath. You will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.

16. I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

17. I shall turn against you and you will be defeated by your enemies. Your foes will have the mastery over you, and you will flee when no one is pursuing you.

17. And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.

18. "And if, in spite of this, you will not listen to me, I shall punish you seven times over for your sins.

18. And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.

19. I shall break your proud strength. I shall make the sky like iron for you, and your soil like bronze.

19. And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:

20. You will wear out your strength in vain, your land will not yield its produce, nor the trees of the country their fruit.

20. And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.

21. "And if you go against me and will not listen to me, I shall heap seven times more plagues on you for your sins.

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. I shall send wild animals to attack you and rob you of your children, destroy your cattle and reduce your numbers until your roads are deserted.

22. I 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 your [high] ways shall be desolate.

23. "And if that does not reform you, and you still go against me,

23. And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me;

24. then I shall go against you and punish you another seven times over for your sins.

24. Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.

25. I shall bring the sword on you, which will avenge the covenant, and when you huddle inside your towns, I shall send pestilence among you, and you will fall into the enemy's clutches.

25. And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of [my] covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

26. When I take away the bread which supports you, ten women will be able to bake your bread in one oven and will then dole your bread out by weight; you will eat but not be satisfied.

26. [And] when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver [you] your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.

27. "And if, in spite of this, you will not listen to me but go against me,

27. And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me;

28. I shall go against you in fury and punish you seven times over for your sins.

28. Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.

29. You will eat the flesh of your own sons, you will eat the flesh of your own daughters.

29. And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.

30. I shall destroy your high places and smash your incense-altars; I shall pile your corpses on the corpses of your foul idols and shall reject you.

30. And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.

31. I shall reduce your cities to ruins; I shall lay waste your sanctuary and refuse to inhale from you smells intended to please.

31. And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.

32. I shall make such a desolation of the country that your enemies who come to live there will be appalled by it.

32. And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.

33. And I shall scatter you among the nations. I shall unsheathe the sword against you, reducing your country to desert and your towns to ruins.

33. And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.

34. Then the country will indeed observe its Sabbaths, all the while it lies deserted, while you are in the country of your enemies. Then indeed the country will rest and observe its Sabbaths.

34. Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye [be] in your enemies' land; [even] then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.

35. And as it lies deserted it will rest, as it never did on your Sabbaths when you were living there.

35. As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.

36. I shall strike such fear into the hearts of those of you who survive in the countries of their enemies that the sound of a falling leaf will set them fleeing; they will flee as though fleeing from the sword, and fall when no one is pursuing.

36. And upon them that are left [alive] of you I will send a 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 sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.

37. They will stumble over one another as though fleeing before the sword, when no one is pursuing. You will be powerless to stand up to your enemies;

37. And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.

38. you will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will swallow you up.

38. And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.

39. Those of you who survive will pine away in their guilt in the countries of their enemies and, bearing the guilt of their ancestors too, will pine away like them.

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. "Then they shall admit their guilt and that of their ancestors and their infidelities against me, and further, their setting themselves against me.

40. If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;

41. "I in my turn will go against them and bring them into the land of their enemies. Then their uncircumcised hearts will grow humble and then they will accept the punishment for their guilt.

41. And [that] I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:

42. I shall remember my covenant with Jacob, I shall remember my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham; and I shall remember the country too.

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. "Abandoned, the country will keep its Sabbaths, as it lies deserted in their absence, and they will have to accept the punishment for their guilt, since they detested my customs and rejected my laws.

43. The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.

44. "Yet, in spite of all this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I shall not so utterly reject or detest them as to destroy them completely and break my covenant with them; for I am Yahweh their God.

44. And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I [am] the LORD their God.

45. For their sake I shall remember the covenant I made with those first generations that I brought out of Egypt while other nations watched, so that I should be their God, I, Yahweh." '

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 heathen, that I might be their God: I [am] the LORD.

46. Such were the decrees, customs and laws which Yahweh established between himself and the Israelites on Mount Sinai through Moses.

46. These [are] the statutes and judgments and laws, which the LORD made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.