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. "You shall make for yourselves no idols and erect no graven image or pillar, and you shall not set up a figured stone in your land, to bow down to them; for I am the LORD your God.

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

2. You 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 you walk in my statutes and observe 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 your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its 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 last to the time of vintage, and the vintage shall last to the time for sowing; and you shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land securely.

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 you shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid; and I will remove evil beasts from the land, and the sword shall not go through your land.

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

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

9. And I will have regard for you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and will confirm 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 you shall eat old store long kept, and you shall clear out the old to make way for the new.

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

11. And I will make my abode 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 you 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, who brought you forth 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 erect.

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

14. "But if you will not hearken to 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. if you spurn my statutes, and if your soul abhors my ordinances, so that you will not do all my commandments, but 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 will do this to you: I will appoint over you sudden terror, consumption, and fever that waste the eyes and cause life to pine away. And you 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. I will set my face against you, and you shall be smitten before your enemies; those who hate you shall rule over you, and you shall flee when none pursues 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 in spite of this you will not hearken to me, then I will chastise you again sevenfold 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 heavens like iron and your earth like 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 its increase, and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.

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. "Then if you walk contrary to me, and will not hearken to me, I will bring more plagues upon you, sevenfold as many as 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. And I will let loose the wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number, so that your ways shall become desolate.

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

23. "And if by this discipline you are not turned to me, but walk contrary to me,

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

24. then I also will walk contrary to you, and I myself will smite you sevenfold 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 execute vengeance for the covenant; and if you gather within your cities I will send pestilence among you, and you 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. When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and shall deliver your bread again by weight; and you 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 in spite of this you will not hearken to me, but walk contrary to me,

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

28. then I will walk contrary to you in fury, and chastise you myself sevenfold for your sins.

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

29. You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters.

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 incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the dead bodies of your idols; and my soul will 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 lay your cities waste, and will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your pleasing odors.

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 devastate the land, so that your enemies who settle in it 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 nations, and I will unsheathe the sword after you; and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a 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 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.

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 lies desolate it shall have rest, the rest which it had not in your sabbaths when you 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 as for those of you that are left, I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; the sound of a driven leaf shall put them to flight, and they shall flee as one flees from the sword, and they shall fall when none pursues.

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. They shall stumble over one another, as if to escape a sword, though none pursues; and you 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 you shall perish among the nations, 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 those of you that are left shall pine away in your enemies' lands because of their iniquity; and also because of the iniquities of their fathers they shall pine away like 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. "But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers in their treachery which they committed against me, and also in walking contrary to 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. so that I walked contrary to them and brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled and they make amends for 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 I will remember my covenant with Jacob, and I will remember my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, 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. But the land shall be left by them, and enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them; and they shall make amends for their iniquity, because they spurned my ordinances, and 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. Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not spurn them, neither will I abhor them so as to destroy them utterly and 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 sake remember the covenant with their forefathers, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, 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 ordinances and laws which the LORD made between him and the people of Israel on Mount Sinai by Moses.