Lev 26:4-13 | NETfull | STEP | I will give you your rains in their time so that the land will give its yield and the trees of the field will produce their fruit.

Leviticus 26:4-13

4 I will give you your rains in their time so that ^{▼▼ Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative force here.} the land will give its yield and the trees of the field will produce their fruit. ^{▼▼ Heb “the tree of the field will give its fruit.” As a collective singular this has been translated as plural.} 5 Threshing season will extend for you until the season for harvesting grapes, ^{▼▼ Heb “will reach for you the vintage season.”} and the season for harvesting grapes will extend until sowing season, so ^{▼▼ Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative force here.} you will eat your bread until you are satisfied, ^{▼▼ Heb “to satisfaction”; KJV, ASV, NASB “to the full.”} and you will live securely in your land. 6 I will grant peace in the land so that ^{▼▼ Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative force here.} you will lie down to sleep without anyone terrifying you. ^{▼▼ Heb “and there will be no one who terrifies.” The words “to sleep” have been supplied in the translation for clarity.} I will remove harmful animals ^{▼▼ Heb “harmful animal,” singular, but taken here as a collective plural (so almost all English versions).} from the land, and no sword of war ^{▼▼ Heb “no sword”; the words “of war” are supplied in the translation to indicate what the metaphor of the sword represents.} will pass through your land. 7 You will pursue your enemies and they will fall before you by the sword. ^{▼▼ Heb “to the sword.”} 8 Five of you will pursue a hundred, and a hundred of you will pursue ten thousand, and your enemies will fall before you by the sword. 9 I will turn to you, make you fruitful, multiply you, and maintain ^{▼▼ Heb “cause to arise,” but probably used here for the Lord’s intention of confirming or maintaining the covenant commitment made at Sinai. Cf. KJV “establish”; NASB “will confirm”; NAB “carry out”; NIV “will keep.”} my covenant with you. 10 You will still be eating stored produce from the previous year ^{▼▼ Heb “old [produce] growing old.”} and will have to clean out what is stored from the previous year to make room for new. ^{▼▼ Heb “and old from the presence of new you will bring out.”}

11 “‘I will put my tabernacle ^{▼▼ LXX codexes Vaticanus and Alexandrinus have “my covenant” rather than “my tabernacle.” Cf. NAB, NASB, NRSV “my dwelling.”} in your midst and I will not abhor you. ^{▼▼ Heb “and my soul [נֶפֶשׁ, nefesh] will not abhor you.”} 12 I will walk among you, and I will be your God and you will be my people. 13 I am the Lord your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt, from being their slaves, ^{▼▼ Heb “from being to them slaves.”} and I broke the bars of your yoke and caused you to walk upright. ^{▼▼ In other words, to walk as free people and not as slaves. Cf. NIV “with (+ your CEV, NLT) heads held high”; NCV “proudly.”}