Leviticus 26
1 “‘Do not make idols for yourselves. Do not set up carved images or sacred pillars for yourselves, and do not place figured stones in your land to bow down to them, for I am the LORD your God.
2 Keep my Sabbaths and revere my sanctuary. I am the LORD.
3 If you walk in my statutes, keep my commandments, and put them into practice,
4 then I will give you rain at the right time, the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.
5 Threshing will last until the grape harvest, and the grape harvest until the time for sowing. You will eat your bread until you are satisfied and live securely in your land.
6 I will give peace in the land. You will lie down, and no one will make you afraid. I will rid the land of wild animals, and no sword will pass through your land.
7 You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall before you by the sword.
8 Five of you will pursue a hundred, and a hundred of you will pursue ten thousand. Your enemies will fall before you by the sword.
9 I will turn toward you, make you fruitful and multiply you, and uphold my covenant with you.
10 You will eat grain that has been stored for a long time, and you will clear out the old to make room for the new.
11 I will place my dwelling among you, and I will not reject you.
12 I will walk among you; I will be your God, and you will be my people.’”
13 “‘I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so that you would no longer be their slaves. I broke the bars of your yoke and made you walk with your heads held high.
14 But if you do not listen to me and do not put all these commandments into practice,
15 if you reject my statutes and detest my ordinances, failing to put all my commandments into practice and breaking my covenant,
16 then I, in turn, will do this to you: I will bring terror upon you, wasting disease and burning fever that consume your eyes and drain your life away. You will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.
17 I will set my face against you, and you will be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee even when no one is pursuing you.
18 If, in spite of this, you still do not listen to me, I will continue to discipline you seven times over for your sins.
19 I will break your proud strength. I will make your skies like iron and your land like bronze.
20 Your strength will be spent in vain, for your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit.
21 If you oppose me and refuse to listen to me, I will bring seven times more plagues upon you for your sins.
22 I will send wild animals against you. They will leave you childless, destroy your livestock, and reduce your numbers; your roads will become deserted.
23 If, despite these things, you will not accept my discipline and continue to oppose me,’”
24 “‘then I, too, will oppose you and strike you seven times over for your sins.
25 I will bring the sword against you to execute the vengeance of the covenant. You will gather into your cities, and I will send pestilence among you; you will be handed over to the enemy.
26 When I break your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven and ration it by weight. You will eat, but you will not be satisfied.
27 If, despite this, you still do not listen to me and continue to oppose me,
28 then I will oppose you in fury, and I, too, will discipline you seven times over for your sins.
29 You will eat the flesh of your sons, and you will eat the flesh of your daughters.
30 I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and lay your corpses on the corpses of your idols. I will reject you.
31 I will reduce your cities to ruins, devastate your sanctuaries, and take no pleasure in the pleasing aroma of your offerings.
32 I myself will devastate the land, and your enemies who settle in it will be appalled by it.
33 I will scatter you among the nations and draw the sword after you. Your land will become desolate, and your cities will lie in ruins.
34 Then the land will enjoy its Sabbaths, all the days it lies desolate while you are in the land of your enemies. Then the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.
35 All the days it lies desolate, it will rest—the rest it did not have during your Sabbaths, when you lived in it.’”
36 “‘As for those of you who remain, I will bring faintheartedness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a windblown leaf will chase them, and they will flee as if fleeing from the sword, and fall when no one is pursuing them.
37 They will stumble over one another as if before the sword, though no one is pursuing them. You will have no strength to stand before your enemies.
38 You will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will consume you.
39 Those of you who remain will waste away in the lands of your enemies because of their guilt; they will also waste away because of the guilt of their ancestors, along with them.
40 Then they will confess their guilt and the guilt of their ancestors—their unfaithfulness to me, and how they also opposed me.
41 I, too, will oppose them and bring them into the land of their enemies. Perhaps then their uncircumcised hearts will be humbled, and they will make amends for their guilt.
42 Then I will remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham I will remember; and I will remember the land.
43 The land will be left by them and enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them; they will make amends for their guilt, because they rejected my ordinances and detested my statutes.
44 Yet, even so, while they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject or detest them so as to destroy them and break my covenant with them, for I am the LORD their God.
45 For their sake I will remember the covenant with their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, to be their God. I am the LORD.’”
46 These are the statutes, ordinances, and instructions that the LORD established between himself and the Israelites at Mount Sinai through Moses.
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