Lev 26 | NASB1995 | STEP | ‘ You shall not make for yourselves idols , nor shall you set up for yourselves an image or a sacred pillar , nor shall you place a figured stone in your land to bow down to it; for I am the Lord your God .

Leviticus 26

Blessings of Obedience

1 ‘You shall not make for yourselves ^{▼▼ Or graven images
,} ^bidols, nor shall you set up for yourselves ^can image or ^da sacred pillar, nor shall you place a ^efigured stone in your land to bow down ^{▼▼ Lit over}to it; for I am the Lord your God. 2 ‘ ^gYou shall keep My sabbaths and reverence My sanctuary; I am the Lord. 3 ‘ ^hIf you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments so as to carry them out, 4 then ⁱI shall give you rains in their season, so that the land will yield its produce and the trees of the field will bear their fruit. 5 ‘ ^jIndeed, your threshing will last for you until grape gathering, and grape gathering will last until sowing time. You will thus eat your ^{▼▼ Lit bread}food to the full and ^llive securely in your land. 6 ‘ ^mI shall also grant peace in the land, so that ⁿyou may lie down with no one making you tremble. ^oI shall also eliminate harmful beasts from the land, and ^pno sword will pass through your land. 7 ‘But you will chase your enemies and they will fall before you by the sword; 8 ^qfive 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 ‘So I will turn toward you and ^rmake you fruitful and multiply you, and I will ^sconfirm My covenant with you. 10 ‘ ^tYou will eat the old supply and clear out the old because of the new. 11 ‘ ^uMoreover, I will make My ^{▼▼ Or tabernacle}dwelling among you, and My soul will not ^{▼▼ Lit abhor}reject you. 12 ‘ ^xI will also walk among you and be your God, and you shall be My people. 13 ‘ ^yI am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so that you would not be their slaves, and ^zI broke the bars of your yoke and made you walk erect.

Penalties of Disobedience

14 ‘ ^aaBut if you do not obey Me and do not carry out all these commandments, 15 if, instead, you ^abreject My statutes, and if your soul abhors My ordinances so as not to carry out all My commandments, and so ^acbreak My covenant, 16 I, in turn, will do this to you: I will appoint over you a ^adsudden terror, consumption and fever that will waste away the eyes and cause the ^aesoul to pine away; also, ^afyou will sow your seed uselessly, for your enemies will eat it up. 17 ‘I will set My face against you so that you will be struck down before your enemies; and ^agthose who hate you will rule over you, and ^ahyou will flee when no one is pursuing you. 18 ‘If also after these things you do not obey Me, then I will punish you ^aiseven times more for your sins. 19 ‘I will also ^ajbreak down your pride of power; I will also make your sky like iron and your earth like bronze. 20 ‘ ^akYour strength will be spent uselessly, for your land will not yield its produce and the trees of the land will not yield their fruit.

21 ‘If then, you ^{▼▼ Lit walk, and so throughout the ch
,} ^amact with hostility against Me and are unwilling to obey Me, I will increase the plague on you ^anseven times according to your sins. 22 ‘ ^aoI will let loose among you the beasts of the field, which will bereave you of your children and destroy your cattle and reduce your number so that ^apyour roads lie deserted.

23 ‘ ^aqAnd if by these things you are not turned to Me, but act with hostility against Me, 24 then I will ^aract with hostility against you; and I, even I, will strike you ^asseven times for your sins. 25 ‘I will also bring upon you a sword which will execute ^atvengeance for the covenant; and when you gather together into your cities, I will send ^aupestilence among you, so that you shall be delivered into enemy hands. 26 ‘ ^avWhen I break your staff of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven, and they will bring back your bread ^{▼▼ Lit by weight}in rationed amounts, so that you will ^axeat and not be satisfied.

27 ‘Yet if in spite of this you do not obey Me, but act with hostility against Me, 28 then ^ayI will act with wrathful hostility against you, and I, even I, will punish you seven times for your sins. 29 ‘Further, ^azyou will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters you will eat. 30 ‘I then ^bawill destroy your high places, and cut down your ^bbincense altars, and heap your ^{▼▼ Lit corpses}remains on the ^{▼▼ Lit corpses}remains of your idols, for My soul shall abhor you. 31 ‘I will ^{▼▼ Lit give desolation to}lay ^bfwaste your cities as well and will make your ^bgsanctuaries desolate, and I will not ^bhsmell your soothing aromas. 32 ‘I will make ^bithe land desolate ^bjso that your enemies who settle in it will be appalled over it. 33 ‘You, however, I ^bkwill scatter among the nations and will draw out a sword after you, as your land becomes desolate and your cities become waste.

34 ‘ ^blThen the land will ^{▼▼ Lit satisfy}enjoy its sabbaths all the days of the desolation, while you are in your enemies’ land; then the land will rest and ^{▼▼ Lit satisfy}enjoy its sabbaths. 35 ‘All the days of its desolation it will observe the rest which it did not observe on your sabbaths, while you were living on it. 36 ‘As for those of you who may be left, I will also bring ^boweakness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. And the sound of a driven leaf will chase them, and even when no one is pursuing they will flee ^{▼▼ Lit the flight of the sword}as though from the sword, and they will fall. 37 ‘ ^bqThey will therefore stumble over each other as if running from the sword, although no one is pursuing; and you will have no strength ^{▼▼ Lit you will stand}to stand up before your enemies. 38 ‘But ^bsyou will perish among the nations, and your enemies’ land will consume you. 39 ‘ ^btSo those of you who may be left will rot away because of their iniquity in the lands of your enemies; and also because of the iniquities of their forefathers they will rot away with them.

40 ‘ ^buIf they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their forefathers, in their unfaithfulness which they committed against Me, and also in their acting with hostility against Me— 41 I also was acting with hostility against them, to bring them into the land of their enemies— ^bvor if their uncircumcised heart becomes humbled so that ^bwthey then make amends for their iniquity, 42 then I will remember ^bxMy covenant with Jacob, and I will remember also ^byMy covenant with Isaac, and ^bzMy covenant with Abraham as well, and I will remember the land. 43 ‘ ^caFor the land will be abandoned by them, and will make up for its sabbaths while it is made desolate without them. They, meanwhile, will be making amends for their iniquity, ^{▼▼ Lit because and by the cause}because they rejected My ordinances and their ^ccsoul abhorred My statutes. 44 ‘Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, nor will I so ^cdabhor them as ^ceto destroy them, ^cfbreaking My covenant with them; for I am the Lord their God. 45 ‘But I will remember for them the ^cgcovenant with their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that ^chI might be their God. I am the Lord.’”

46 ^ciThese are the statutes and ordinances and laws which the Lord established between Himself and the sons of Israel ^{▼▼ Lit by the hand of}through Moses at Mount Sinai.