Leviticus 26

VIN(i) 1 "'Do not make idols or set up statues, stone pillars, or carved stones to worship. I am the LORD your God! 2 "'You shall keep my Sabbaths, and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am the LORD. 3 "'If you live according to my laws and obey my commands, 4 then I will give your rains in their season and the land will yield its increase and the trees of the field will yield their fruit. 5 Your threshing shall continue until the vintage, and the vintage shall continue until the sowing time. You 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, with none to make you afraid; and I will remove evil beasts out of the land, and the sword shall not pass through your land. 7 And you shall pursue your enemies, and they shall fall by the sword before you. 8 And five of you will chase a hundred and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand and your enemies will fall before you by the sword. 9 And 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. 10 You shall eat old store long kept, and you shall move out the old because of the new. 11 I will make my dwelling place among you, and my soul shall not loathe you. 12 I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you will be my people. 13 "'I am the LORD your God. I brought you out of Egypt so that you are no longer slaves of the Egyptians. I have broken their power over you and made you live as a free people. 14 And if you will not listen to Me, and do not do all these commands; 15 and if you reject my statutes and if your inner self abhors my regulations, to not carry out all my commands by your breaking my covenant, 16 I in turn will do this to you: then 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, and your enemies shall eat it. 17 I will set my face against you, and you will be struck before your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you; and you will flee when no one pursues you. 18 "'If you still will not listen to me, I will discipline you seven times for your sins. 19 I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron, and your soil like bronze. 20 and your strength will be spent in vain, for your land will not yield its increase, nor will the trees of the land yield their fruit. 21 If you walk contrary to me, and will not hearken to me, I will bring seven times more plagues upon you for your sins. 22 "'I will send wild animals among you. They will rob you of your children. They will destroy your cattle, and make you so few that your roads will be deserted. 23 And if over these things you should not be corrected, but should go to me sideways, 24 I also will walk contrary to you, and will strike you seven times for your sins. 25 I will bring the sword on you avenging the vengeance of the covenant. When you will be gathered into your cities then I will send the plague into your midst, and you will be given into the hand of the enemy. 26 When I break your staff of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven and they will deliver your bread again by weight and you will eat and not be satisfied. 27 "'If in spite of this you do not listen to me and still resist me, 28 then I will go against you in hostile anger, and also I myself will discipline you seven times for your sins. 29 so that ye shall eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters. 30 I will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you. 31 I will lay your cities waste, and will bring your sanctuaries to desolation. I will not take delight in the sweet fragrance of your offerings. 32 And I myself will lay waste the land, and your enemies who are living in it shall be appalled over it. 33 I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you. Your land will be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste. 34 Then the land will enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies' land. Even then the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths. 35 As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it did not have in your sabbaths, when you lived on it. 36 "'As for those of you who are left, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies: and the sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword; and they will fall when no one pursues. 37 They will stumble over one another, as it were before the sword, when no one pursues: and you will have no power to stand before your enemies. 38 You will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will devour you. 39 "'Those who are left will waste away in the lands of their enemies because of their sins and the sins of their ancestors. 40 "'However if they confess their sins and the sins of their ancestors and the treacherous things they did to oppose me, 41 I also will walk contrary to them and will bring them into the land of their enemies. If then their uncircumcised hearts are humbled, and they then pay for their iniquity, 42 then I will remember my covenant with Jacob, my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham; and I will remember the land. 43 The land also will be left by them, and will enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them; and they will accept the punishment of their iniquity because they rejected my ordinances, and their soul abhorred my statutes. 44 And in spite of this, when they are 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 the LORD their God. 45 but for their sakes I will 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 the LORD. 46 These are the rules and the regulations and the laws that the LORD gave between himself and the Israelites on Mount Sinai through Moses.