Leviticus 26 Commandments, promises and threats

Leviticus 26

Commandments, promises and threats

1 Ye shall not make idols for yourselves, neither shall ye set up a graven image, nor an image of a stone in your land, to bow down to it: for I am the LORD your God.

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

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

4 Then I will give you your rains in due season; and the earth shall give its newness, and the tree of the field shall yield its increase:

5 And the threshing shall come unto you to the harvest, and the vintage shall come near to sowing: 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 sleep secure, and none shall make you afraid: and I will cause the beasts of the earth to cease, and there shall be no sword in your land.

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

8 Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand; and your enemies shall fall by the sword before you.

9 And I will look upon you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and confirm my covenant with you.

10 And ye shall eat the old store, after it is aged; and you shall take the old man away because of the new.

11 And I will set my tabernacle in the midst of you, and my soul shall not be angry with you.

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

13 I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of the Egyptians, lest you should be their slaves; and I have broken the yoke of your yoke, and made you walk straight.

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

15 And if ye reject my statutes, and your soul be angry with my judgments, not fulfilling all my commandments, to make void my covenant,

16 And I will also do this unto you: I will put terror upon you, and the heat, and the burning fever, that shall consume the eyes, and torment the soul: and ye shall sow your seed, and your enemies eat it.

17 And I will set my face against you, and you shall be smitten before your enemies; and they that hate you shall be sown, and ye shall flee, and none shall pursue you.

18 And if you still do not listen to me, then I will punish you seven more times for your sins.

19 For I will break the pride of your strength; and I will make your heavens as iron, and your earth as copper.

20 And your strength shall be a waste: your land shall not give its increase, neither shall the trees of the earth yield their fruit.

21 And if you walk contrary to me and will not listen to me, I will bring you plague seven times more, according to your sins.

22 For I will send the beasts of the field among you, and they will make you desolate; and your ways shall be desolate.

23 If you still have not restored these things for me, but still walk contrary to me,

24 I will also walk contrary to you, and I, even I, will strike you seven times more because of your sins.

25 For I will bring upon you the sword, which will execute the vengeance of the covenant; and ye shall be gathered together in your cities: then I will send the pestilence among you, and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

26 When I break your bread, then ten women shall bake your bread in a furnace, and they shall make you bread by weight, and ye shall eat, but ye shall not be satisfied.

27 And if ye will not hearken unto me, and yet walk contrary unto me,

28 And I will walk with you in anger; and I will punish you seven times more for your sins.

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

30 And I will cut off your high places, and break down your images of the sun, and cast your carcases of your gods; my soul shall be angry with you.

31 And I will make your cities a desert, and I will destroy your sanctuaries, and I will not glean your sweet smell.

32 And I will destroy the land, and your enemies that dwell therein shall be astonished.

33 And I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw the sword after you; and your land shall be desolate, and your cities shall be deserted.

34 And the land shall rejoice in its sabbaths, all the days of its desolation, and ye shall be in the land of your enemies; then the land will rest and rejoice on its sabbaths.

35 All the days of the desolation he shall rest, because he hath not rested in your sabbaths, when he liveth therein.

36 And when those of you remain, I will put such a fear in their hearts, in the lands of their enemies, that the sound of a moving leaf shall pursue them; and they shall flee as one fled from the sword: and they shall fall, and none shall pursue.

37 And they shall fall upon one another as before the sword, without any pursuing them; and you can not stand before your enemies.

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

39 And those who remain among you shall melt in their iniquity in the lands of your enemies, and in the iniquity of their fathers with them they shall melt.

40 And they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their transgressions, wherewith they have transgressed against me; but also that they walked contrary to me.

41 I also walked with them contrary, and brought them into the land of their enemies; if then his uncircumcised heart should humble himself, and then take the punishment of his iniquity for good,

42 And I will remember my covenant with Jacob, and of my covenant with Isaac, and of my covenant with Abraham, I will remember, and of the land I will remember.

43 And the land shall be forsaken of them, and shall rejoice in their sabbaths, being desolate for their sakes; and they shall take the punishment of their iniquity for good, because they have rejected my judgments, and their soul is filled with my statutes.

44 Moreover, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, neither will I be angry with them, to consume them, and to make them void of my covenant with them: for I am Jehovah their God.

45 But for their sake I will remember the covenant with their fathers, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt before the eyes of the heathen, to be their God: I am the LORD.

46 These are the statutes, and the judgments, and the ordinances which Jehovah gave among themselves and the children of Israel at Mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.