Lev 26 | ABEn | STEP | You shall not make to yourselves a handmade thing, nor a carving, nor [ 2 a monument 1 shall you raise up] to yourselves; nor a stone exemplar shall you stand in your land to do obeisance to it. I am the lord your God.

Leviticus 26

CHAPTER 26 Results of Keeping God's Orders

1 You shall not make to yourselves a handmade thing, nor a carving, nor [²a monument ¹shall you raise up] to yourselves; nor a stone exemplar shall you stand in your land to do obeisance to it. I am the lord your God. 2 My Sabbaths you shall keep, and of my holy things you shall fear. I am the lord. 3 If in my orders you should go, and my commandments you should keep, and should do them, 4 then I will give the rain to you in its season, and to the land I will give its produce, and the trees of the fields will give back their fruit. 5 And [³shall overtake ⁴among you ¹the ²threshing] the gathering of the crops; and the gathering of the crops shall overtake the sowing; and you shall eat your bread unto fullness. And you shall dwell with safety upon your land. 6 And I will put peace in your land, and you shall go to bed, and there will not be among you one frightening. And I will destroy [²wild beasts ¹the ferocious] from your land, and war shall not go through your land. 7 And you shall pursue your enemies, and they shall fall before you in carnage. 8 And there shall pursue from out of you five after a hundred, and a hundred of you shall pursue tens of thousands; and [²shall fall ¹your enemies] before you by sword. 9 And I will look upon you, and I will increase you, and I will multiply you, and I will establish my covenant with you. 10 And you shall eat even the old of the old, and [²the old ³in ⁴front of ⁵the new ¹you shall bring forth]. 11 And I will put my tent among you, and [²shall not ³abhor ¹my soul] you. 12 And I will walk about among you; and I will be your God, and you shall be to me for a people. 13 I am the lord your God, the one leading you from out of the land of Egypt, where you were slaves. And I broke the bond of your yoke, and led you out in an open manner.

Results of Disobeying God's Orders

14 And if you should not obey me, nor should observe [²my orders ¹these], 15 but should resist them, and [²my judgments ¹you should loathe] in your soul, so as for you to not observe all my commandments, so as for you to efface my covenant, 16 then I will do thus to you; and I will to set upon you perplexity, and also the mange, and jaundice, inflaming of your eyes, and of your life wasting away. And you shall sow ineffectually of your seeds, and [²shall eat ³them ¹your opponents]. 17 And I will set my face against you, and you shall fall before your enemies; and [⁴shall pursue ⁵you ¹the ²ones detesting ³you], and you shall flee with no one pursuing you. 18 And if in this you should not obey me, then I will add to correct you with strokes seven times for your sins, 19 and I will break the insolence of your pride, and I will establish your heaven as iron, and your land as brass, 20 and [²shall be ³in ⁴vain ¹your strength]. And [³shall not ⁴give ¹the ²earth] of your sowing it, and the tree of the field shall not give its fruit. 21 And if after these things you should go sideways, and should not want to obey me, I will add to you [²calamities ¹seven] according to your sins. 22 And I will send upon you the [²beasts ¹wild] of the land; and they shall eat you, and shall completely consume your cattle; and [³very few ¹I will make ²you]; and [²shall be made desolate ¹your ways]. 23 And if over these things you should not be corrected, but should go to me sideways, 24 I will go also with you in rage sideways, and I will strike you also seven times for your sins. 25 And I will bring upon you a sword, avenging punishment of covenant. And you shall take refuge in your cities, and I will send out plague upon you; and you shall be delivered up into the hands of the enemies. 26 In your being afflicted there will be scarcity of bread loaves. [³shall bake ¹Ten ²women] your bread loaves in [²oven ¹one], and they shall give back the bread loaves to you by weight; and you shall eat, and no way shall you be filled. 27 And if upon this you do not obey me, but should go to me sideways, 28 then I myself shall go with you in rage sideways, and I will correct you, even I, seven times according to your sins. 29 And you shall eat the flesh of your sons; and the flesh of your daughters you shall eat. 30 And I will make desolate your monuments, and I will utterly destroy [²wooden images ³made by hands ¹your]. And I will put your carcasses upon the carcasses of your idols. And [²will loathe ¹my soul] in you. 31 And I will establish your cities as desolate, and I will make quite desolate your holy places; and no way shall I smell the scents of your sacrifices. 32 And I will make quite desolate, even I, your land. And [⁵shall wonder ⁶over ⁷it ¹your enemies ²dwelling ³in ⁴it]. 33 And I will disseminate you into the nations; and [⁴will completely consume ⁵you ³coming upon you ¹the ²sword]; and [²will be ¹your land] desolate, and your cities will be desolate places. 34 Then [³will favor ¹the ²land] its Sabbaths all the days of its desolation, and you will be in the land of your enemies. Then [³shall observe the Sabbath ¹the ²land], and will favor its Sabbaths. 35 All the days of its desolation it shall observe the Sabbath, in which it did not observe the Sabbath in your Sabbaths, when you dwelt it. 36 And to the ones being left behind of you, I will bring timidity into their heart in the land of their enemies. And [⁴will pursue ⁵them ¹the sound ²of a leaf ³being brought along], and they shall flee as fleeing from war, and they shall fall with no one pursuing. 37 And [³will neglect ¹the ²brother] his brother as in war, but no one running them down. And you will not be able to oppose your enemies. 38 And you shall perish among the nations, and [⁴will devour ⁵you ¹the ²land ³of your enemies]. 39 And the ones being left behind from you shall be corrupted on account of their sins, and on account of the sins of their fathers. In the land of their enemies they shall be melted away. 40 And they shall declare openly their sins, and the sins of their fathers; for they violated and overlooked me, and that they went before me sideways. 41 And I went with them in rage sideways, and I will destroy them in the land of their enemies. Then [⁴shall have felt shame ³heart ¹their ²uncircumcised], and then they shall think well on their sins.

The LORD shall Remember His Covenant

42 And I shall remember the covenant of Jacob, and the covenant of Isaac; and the covenant of Abraham I shall remember; and the land I shall remember. 43 And the land shall be abandoned of them. Then [³shall favorably receive ¹the ²land] her Sabbaths, in her being made desolate because of them. And they shall accept the things of their own lawlessness, because [²my judgments ¹they overlooked], and [²my orders ¹they loathed] in their soul. 44 And thus, they being in the land of their enemies, I did not overlook them, nor loathed in them so as to completely consume them for effacing my covenant, the one with them. For I am the lord their God. 45 And I will remember their covenant, the former one, when I led them out of the land of Egypt, from out of the house of slavery before the nations, to be their God. I am the lord. 46 These are the judgments, and the orders, and the law, which the lord made between himself and between the sons of Israel on mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.