Leviticus 26:1–46

¹“‘YOU​ must not make valueless gods for yourselves, and ​YOU​ must not set up a carved image or a sacred pillar for yourselves, and ​YOU​ must not put a stone as a showpiece in ​YOUR​ land in order to bow down toward it; for I am Jehovah ​YOUR​ God.²YOU​ should keep my sabbaths and stand in awe of my sanctuary. I am Jehovah.

³“‘If ​YOU​ continue walking in my statutes and keeping my commandments and ​YOU​ do carry them out,⁴I shall also certainly give ​YOUR​ showers of rain at their proper time, and the land will indeed give its yield, and the tree of the field will give its fruit.⁵And ​YOUR​ threshing will certainly reach to ​YOUR​ grape gathering, and the grape gathering will reach to the sowing of seed; and ​YOU​ will indeed eat ​YOUR​ bread to satisfaction and dwell in security in ​YOUR​ land.⁶And I will put peace in the land, and ​YOU​ will indeed lie down, with no one making [YOU] tremble; and I will make the injurious wild beast cease out of the land, and a sword will not pass through ​YOUR​ land.⁷And ​YOU​ will certainly chase ​YOUR​ enemies, and they will indeed fall before ​YOU​ by the sword.⁸And five of ​YOU​ will certainly chase a hundred, and a hundred of ​YOU​ will chase ten thousand, and ​YOUR​ enemies will indeed fall before ​YOU​ by the sword.

⁹“‘And I will turn myself to ​YOU​ and make ​YOU​ fruitful and multiply ​YOU, and I will carry out my covenant with ​YOU.¹⁰And ​YOU​ will certainly eat the old of the preceding year, and ​YOU​ will bring out the old ahead of the new.¹¹And I shall certainly put my tabernacle in the midst of ​YOU, and my soul will not abhor ​YOU.¹²And I shall indeed walk in the midst of ​YOU​ and prove myself ​YOUR​ God, and ​YOU, on ​YOUR​ part, will prove yourselves my people.¹³I am Jehovah ​YOUR​ God, who brought ​YOU​ out of the land of Egypt from acting as slaves to them, and I proceeded to break the bars of ​YOUR​ yoke and make ​YOU​ walk erect.

¹⁴“‘However, if ​YOU​ will not listen to me nor do all these commandments,¹⁵and if ​YOU​ will reject my statutes, and if ​YOUR​ souls will abhor my judicial decisions so as not to do all my commandments, to the extent of ​YOUR​ violating my covenant,¹⁶then I, for my part, shall do the following to ​YOU, and in punishment I shall certainly bring upon ​YOU​ disturbance with tuberculosis and burning fever, causing the eyes to fail and making the soul pine away. And ​YOU​ will simply sow ​YOUR​ seed for nothing, as ​YOUR​ enemies will certainly eat it up.¹⁷And I shall indeed set my face against ​YOU, and ​YOU​ will certainly be defeated before ​YOUR​ enemies; and those who hate ​YOU​ will just tread down upon ​YOU, and ​YOU​ will actually flee when no one is pursuing ​YOU.

¹⁸“‘If, though, despite these things, ​YOU​ will not listen to me, I shall then have to chastise ​YOU​ seven times as much for ​YOUR​ sins.¹⁹And I shall have to break the pride of ​YOUR​ strength and make ​YOUR​ heavens like iron and ​YOUR​ earth like copper.²⁰And ​YOUR​ power will simply be expended for nothing, as ​YOUR​ earth will not give its yield, and the tree of the earth will not give its fruit.

²¹“‘But if ​YOU​ keep walking in opposition to me and not wishing to listen to me, I shall then have to inflict seven times more blows upon ​YOU​ according to ​YOUR​ sins.²²And I will send the wild beasts of the field among ​YOU, and they will certainly bereave ​YOU​ of children and cut off ​YOUR​ domestic animals and reduce the number of ​YOU, and ​YOUR​ roads will actually be desolated.

²³“‘Nevertheless, if with these things ​YOU​ do not let yourselves be corrected by me and ​YOU​ just have to walk in opposition to me,²⁴I, yes, I, shall then have to walk in opposition to ​YOU; and I, even I, shall have to strike ​YOU​ seven times for ​YOUR​ sins.²⁵And I shall certainly bring upon ​YOU​ a sword wreaking vengeance for the covenant; and ​YOU​ will indeed gather yourselves into ​YOUR​ cities, and I shall certainly send pestilence into the midst of ​YOU, and ​YOU​ must be given into the hand of an enemy.²⁶When I have broken for ​YOU​ the rods around which ring‐shaped loaves are suspended, ten women will then actually bake ​YOUR​ bread in but one oven and give back ​YOUR​ bread by weight; and ​YOU​ must eat but ​YOU​ will not be satisfied.

²⁷“‘If, however, with this ​YOU​ will not listen to me and ​YOU​ just must walk in opposition to me,²⁸I shall then have to walk in heated opposition to ​YOU, and I, yes, I, shall have to chastise ​YOU​ seven times for ​YOUR​ sins.²⁹So ​YOU​ will have to eat the flesh of ​YOUR​ sons, and ​YOU​ will eat the flesh of ​YOUR​ daughters.³⁰And I shall certainly annihilate ​YOUR​ sacred high places and cut off ​YOUR​ incense stands and lay ​YOUR​ own carcasses upon the carcasses of ​YOUR​ dungy idols; and my soul will simply abhor ​YOU.³¹And I shall indeed give ​YOUR​ cities to the sword and lay ​YOUR​ sanctuaries desolate, and I shall not smell ​YOUR​ restful odors.³²And I, for my part, will lay the land desolate, and ​YOUR​ enemies who are dwelling in it will simply stare in amazement over it.³³And ​YOU​ I shall scatter among the nations, and I will unsheathe a sword after ​YOU; and ​YOUR​ land must become a desolation, and ​YOUR​ cities will become a desolate ruin.

³⁴“‘At that time the land will pay off its sabbaths all the days of its lying desolated, while ​YOU​ are in the land of ​YOUR​ enemies. At that time the land will keep sabbath, as it must repay its sabbaths.³⁵All the days of its lying desolated it will keep sabbath, for the reason that it did not keep sabbath during ​YOUR​ sabbaths when ​YOU​ were dwelling upon it.

³⁶“‘As for those remaining among ​YOU, I shall certainly bring timidity into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a leaf driven about will indeed chase them away, and they will actually flee as in flight from a sword and fall without anyone chasing.³⁷And they will certainly stumble against one another as if from before a sword without anyone chasing, and for ​YOU​ there will prove to be no ability to stand [in resistance] before ​YOUR​ enemies.³⁸And ​YOU​ must perish among the nations, and the land of ​YOUR​ enemies must eat ​YOU​ up.³⁹As for those remaining among ​YOU, they will rot away because of their error in the lands of ​YOUR​ enemies. Yes, even because of the errors of their fathers, with them they will rot away.⁴⁰And they will certainly confess their own error and the error of their fathers in their unfaithfulness when they behaved unfaithfully toward me, yes, even when they walked in opposition to me.⁴¹Yet I, for my part, proceeded to walk in opposition to them, and I had to bring them into the land of their enemies.

“‘Perhaps at that time their uncircumcised heart will be humbled, and at that time they will pay off their error.⁴²And I shall indeed remember my covenant with Jacob; and even my covenant with Isaac and even my covenant with Abraham I shall remember, and the land I shall remember.⁴³All the while the land was left abandoned by them and was paying off its sabbaths while it was lying desolated without them and they themselves were paying for their error, because, even because, they had rejected my judicial decisions, and their souls had abhorred my statutes.⁴⁴And yet for all this, while they continue in the land of their enemies, I shall certainly not reject them nor abhor them so as to exterminate them, to violate my covenant with them; for I am Jehovah their God.⁴⁵And I will remember in their behalf the covenant of the ancestors whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt under the eyes of the nations, in order to prove myself their God. I am Jehovah.’”

⁴⁶These are the regulations and the judicial decisions and the laws that Jehovah set between himself and the sons of Israel in Mount Si′nai by means of Moses.