Leviticus 26

New King James Version

Promise of Blessing and Retribution^(A)

26 ‘You shall ^(B)not make idols for yourselves;

neither a carved image nor a sacred pillar shall you rear up for yourselves;

nor shall you set up an engraved stone in your land, to bow down to it;

for I am the Lord your God.

²^(C)You shall ^[a]keep My Sabbaths and reverence My sanctuary:

I am the Lord.

³^(D)‘If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments, and perform them,

⁴^(E)then I will give you rain in its season, ^(F)the land shall yield its produce, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

⁵^(G)Your threshing shall last till the time of vintage, and the vintage shall last till the time of sowing;

you shall eat your bread to the full, and ^(H)dwell in your land safely.

⁶^(I)I will give peace in the land, and ^(J)you shall lie down, and none will make you afraid;

I will rid the land of ^(K)evil^[b] beasts,

and ^(L)the sword will not go through your land.

⁷You will chase your enemies, and they shall fall by the sword before you.

⁸^(M)Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight;

your enemies shall fall by the sword before you.

⁹‘For I will ^(N)look on you favorably and ^(O)make you fruitful, multiply you and confirm My ^(P)covenant with you.

¹⁰You shall eat the ^(Q)old harvest, and clear out the old because of the new.

¹¹^(R)I will set My ^[c]tabernacle among you, and My soul shall not abhor you.

¹²^(S)I will walk among you and be your God, and you shall be My people.

¹³I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves;

I have broken the bands of your ^(T)yoke and made you walk ^[d]upright.

¹⁴‘But if you do not obey Me, and do not observe all these commandments,

¹⁵and if you despise My statutes, or if your soul abhors My judgments, so that you do not perform all My commandments, but break My covenant,

¹⁶I also will do this to you:

I will even appoint terror over you, ^(U)wasting disease and fever which shall ^(V)consume the eyes and ^(W)cause sorrow of heart.

And ^(X)you shall sow your seed ^[e]in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

¹⁷I will ^[f]set ^(Y)My face against you, and ^(Z)you shall be defeated by your enemies.

^(AA)Those who hate you shall reign over you, and you shall ^(AB)flee when no one pursues you.

¹⁸‘And after all this, if you do not obey Me, then I will punish you ^(AC)seven times more for your sins.

¹⁹I will ^(AD)break the pride of your power;

I ^(AE)will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze.

²⁰And your ^(AF)strength shall be spent in vain;

for your ^(AG)land shall not yield its produce, nor shall the trees of the land yield their fruit.

²¹‘Then, if you walk contrary to Me, and are not willing to obey Me, I will bring on you seven times more plagues, according to your sins.

²²^(AH)I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number;

and ^(AI)your highways shall be desolate.

²³‘And if ^(AJ)by these things you are not reformed by Me, but walk contrary to Me,

²⁴^(AK)then I also will walk contrary to you, and I will punish you yet seven times for your sins.

²⁵And ^(AL)I will bring a sword against you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant;

when you are gathered together within your cities ^(AM)I will send pestilence among you;

and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

²⁶^(AN)When I have cut off your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall bring back your bread by weight, ^(AO)and you shall eat and not be satisfied.

²⁷‘And after all this, if you do not obey Me, but walk contrary to Me,

²⁸then I also will walk contrary to you in fury;

and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.

²⁹^(AP)You^[g] shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters.

³⁰^(AQ)I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and cast your carcasses on the lifeless forms of your idols;

and My soul shall abhor you.

³¹I will lay your ^(AR)cities waste and ^(AS)bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not ^(AT)smell the fragrance of your ^[h]sweet aromas.

³²^(AU)I will bring the land to desolation, and your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished at it.

³³^(AV)I will scatter you among the nations and draw out a sword after you;

your land shall be desolate and your cities waste.

³⁴^(AW)Then the land shall enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies’ land;

then the land shall rest and enjoy its sabbaths.

³⁵As long as it lies desolate it shall rest—

for the time it did not rest on your ^(AX)sabbaths when you dwelt in it.

³⁶‘And as for those of you who are left, I will send ^(AY)faintness^[i] into their hearts in the lands of their enemies;

the sound of a shaken leaf shall cause them to flee;

they shall flee as though fleeing from a sword, and they shall fall when no one pursues.

³⁷^(AZ)They shall stumble over one another, as it were before a sword, when no one pursues;

and ^(BA)you shall have no power to stand before your enemies.

³⁸You shall ^(BB)perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.

³⁹And those of you who are left ^(BC)shall ^[j]waste away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands;

also in their ^(BD)fathers’ iniquities, which are with them, they shall waste away.

⁴⁰‘But ^(BE)if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, with their unfaithfulness in which they were unfaithful to Me, and that they also have walked contrary to Me,

⁴¹and that I also have walked contrary to them and have brought them into the land of their enemies;

if their ^(BF)uncircumcised hearts are ^(BG)humbled, and they ^(BH)accept their guilt—

⁴²then I will ^(BI)remember My covenant with Jacob, and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham I will remember;

I will ^(BJ)remember the land.

⁴³^(BK)The land also shall be left empty by them, and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them;

they will accept their guilt, because they ^(BL)despised My judgments and because their soul abhorred My statutes.

⁴⁴Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, ^(BM)I will not cast them away, nor shall I abhor them, to utterly destroy them and break My covenant with them;

for I am the Lord their God.

⁴⁵But ^(BN)for their sake I will remember the covenant of their ancestors, ^(BO)whom I brought out of the land of Egypt ^(BP)in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God:

I am the Lord.’ ”

⁴⁶^(BQ)These are the statutes and judgments and laws which the Lord made between Himself and the children of Israel ^(BR)on Mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.

Footnotes

Leviticus 26:2 observe
Leviticus 26:6 wild beasts
Leviticus 26:11 dwelling place
Leviticus 26:13 erect
Leviticus 26:16 without profit
Leviticus 26:17 oppose you
Leviticus 26:29 In time of famine
Leviticus 26:31 pleasing
Leviticus 26:36 fear
Leviticus 26:39 rot away

Leviticus 27

New King James Version

Redeeming Persons and Property Dedicated to God

27 Now the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ²“Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ^(A)‘When a man ^[a]consecrates by a vow certain persons to the Lord, according to your ^[b]valuation, ³if your valuation is of a male from twenty years old up to sixty years old, then your valuation shall be fifty shekels of silver, ^(B)according to the shekel of the sanctuary. ⁴If it is a female, then your valuation shall be thirty shekels; ⁵and if from five years old up to twenty years old, then your valuation for a male shall be twenty shekels, and for a female ten shekels; ⁶and if from a month old up to five years old, then your valuation for a male shall be five shekels of silver, and for a female your valuation shall be three shekels of silver; ⁷and if from sixty years old and above, if it is a male, then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels.

⁸‘But if he is too poor to pay your valuation, then he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest shall set a value for ^(C)him; according to the ability of him who vowed, the priest shall value him.

⁹‘If it is an animal that men may bring as an offering to the Lord, all that anyone gives to the Lord shall be holy. ¹⁰He shall not substitute it or exchange it, good for bad or bad for good; and if he at all exchanges animal for animal, then both it and the one exchanged for it shall be ^(D)holy. ¹¹If it is an unclean animal which they do not offer as a sacrifice to the Lord, then he shall present the animal before the priest; ¹²and the priest shall set a value for it, whether it is good or bad; as you, the priest, value it, so it shall be. ¹³^(E)But if he wants at all to redeem it, then he must add one-fifth to your valuation.

¹⁴‘And when a man ^[c]dedicates his house to be holy to the Lord, then the priest shall set a value for it, whether it is good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall stand. ¹⁵If he who dedicated it wants to ^[d]redeem his house, then he must add one-fifth of the money of your valuation to it, and it shall be his.

¹⁶‘If a man ^[e]dedicates to the Lord part of a field of his possession, then your valuation shall be according to the seed for it. A homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver. ¹⁷If he dedicates his field from the Year of Jubilee, according to your valuation it shall stand. ¹⁸But if he dedicates his field after the Jubilee, then the priest shall ^(F)reckon to him the money due according to the years that remain till the Year of Jubilee, and it shall be deducted from your valuation. ¹⁹And if he who dedicates the field ever wishes to redeem it, then he must add one-fifth of the money of your valuation to it, and it shall belong to him. ²⁰But if he does not want to redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed anymore; ²¹but the field, ^(G)when it is released in the Jubilee, shall be holy to the Lord, as a ^(H)devoted field; it shall be ^(I)the possession of the priest.

²²‘And if a man dedicates to the Lord a field which he has bought, which is not the field of ^(J)his possession, ²³then the priest shall reckon to him the worth of your valuation, up to the Year of Jubilee, and he shall give your valuation on that day as a holy offering to the Lord. ²⁴^(K)In the Year of Jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, to the one who owned the land as a possession. ²⁵And all your valuations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: ^(L)twenty gerahs to the shekel.

²⁶‘But the ^(M)firstborn of the animals, which should be the Lord’s firstborn, no man shall dedicate; whether it is an ox or sheep, it is the Lord’s. ²⁷And if it is an unclean animal, then he shall redeem it according to your valuation, and ^(N)shall add one-fifth to it; or if it is not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your valuation.

²⁸^(O)‘Nevertheless no ^[f]devoted offering that a man may devote to the Lord of all that he has, both man and beast, or the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed; every devoted offering is most holy to the Lord. ²⁹^(P)No person under the ban, who may become doomed to destruction among men, shall be redeemed, but shall surely be put to death. ³⁰And ^(Q)all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the tree, is the Lord’s. It is holy to the Lord. ³¹^(R)If a man wants at all to redeem any of his tithes, he shall add one-fifth to it. ³²And concerning the tithe of the herd or the flock, of whatever ^(S)passes under the rod, the tenth one shall be holy to the Lord. ³³He shall not inquire whether it is good or bad, ^(T)nor shall he exchange it; and if he exchanges it at all, then both it and the one exchanged for it shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.’ ”

³⁴^(U)These are the commandments which the Lord commanded Moses for the children of Israel on Mount ^(V)Sinai.

Footnotes

Leviticus 27:2 Or makes a difficult or extraordinary vow
Leviticus 27:2 appraisal
Leviticus 27:14 sets apart
Leviticus 27:15 buy back
Leviticus 27:16 sets apart
Leviticus 27:28 Given exclusively and irrevocably

Hebrews 10

New King James Version

Animal Sacrifices Insufficient

10 For the law, having a ^(A)shadow of the good things to come, and not the very image of the things, ^(B)can never with these same sacrifices, which they offer continually year by year, make those who approach perfect. ²For then would they not have ceased to be offered? For the worshipers, once ^[a]purified, would have had no more consciousness of sins. ³But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year. ⁴For ^(C)it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins.

Christ’s Death Fulfills God’s Will^(D)

⁵Therefore, when He came into the world, He said:

^(E)“Sacrifice and offering You did not desire,
But a body You have prepared for Me.
⁶In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin
You had no pleasure.
⁷Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come—
In the volume of the book it is written of Me—
To do Your will, O God.’ ”

⁸Previously saying, “Sacrifice and offering, burnt offerings, and offerings for sin You did not desire, nor had pleasure in them” (which are offered according to the law), ⁹then He said, “Behold, I have come to do Your will, ^[b]O God.” He takes away the first that He may establish the second. ¹⁰^(F)By that will we have been ^[c]sanctified ^(G)through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Christ’s Death Perfects the Sanctified

¹¹And every priest stands ^(H)ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. ¹²^(I)But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down ^(J)at the right hand of God, ¹³from that time waiting ^(K)till His enemies are made His footstool. ¹⁴For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being ^[d]sanctified.

¹⁵But the Holy Spirit also witnesses to us; for after He had said before,

¹⁶^(L)“This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them,” ¹⁷then He adds, ^(M)“Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.” ¹⁸Now where there is ^[e]remission of these, there is no longer an offering for sin.

Hold Fast Your Confession

¹⁹Therefore, brethren, having ^(N)boldness^[f] to enter ^(O)the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, ²⁰by a new and ^(P)living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh, ²¹and having a High Priest over the house of God, ²²let us ^(Q)draw near with a true heart ^(R)in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. ²³Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for ^(S)He who promised is faithful. ²⁴And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, ²⁵^(T)not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and ^(U)so much the more as you see ^(V)the Day approaching.

The Just Live by Faith

²⁶For ^(W)if we sin willfully ^(X)after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there ^(Y)no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, ²⁷but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and ^(Z)fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries. ²⁸Anyone who has rejected Moses’ law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three ^(AA)witnesses. ²⁹^(AB)Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, ^(AC)counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, ^(AD)and insulted the Spirit of grace? ³⁰For we know Him who said, ^(AE)“Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” ^[g]says the Lord. And again, ^(AF)“The Lord will judge His people.” ³¹^(AG)It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

³²But ^(AH)recall the former days in which, after you were ^[h]illuminated, you endured a great struggle with sufferings: ³³partly while you were made ^(AI)a spectacle both by reproaches and tribulations, and partly while ^(AJ)you became companions of those who were so treated; ³⁴for you had compassion on ^[i]me ^(AK)in my chains, and ^(AL)joyfully accepted the plundering of your ^[j]goods, knowing that ^(AM)you have a better and an enduring possession for yourselves ^[k]in heaven. ³⁵Therefore do not cast away your confidence, ^(AN)which has great reward. ³⁶^(AO)For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, ^(AP)you may receive the promise:

³⁷“For ^(AQ)yet a little while,
And ^(AR)He^[l] who is coming will come and will not ^[m]tarry.
³⁸Now ^(AS)the^[n] just shall live by faith;
But if anyone draws back,
My soul has no pleasure in him.”

³⁹But we are not of those ^(AT)who draw back to ^[o]perdition, but of those who ^(AU)believe to the saving of the soul.

Footnotes

Hebrews 10:2 cleansed
Hebrews 10:9 NU, M omit O God
Hebrews 10:10 set apart
Hebrews 10:14 set apart
Hebrews 10:18 forgiveness
Hebrews 10:19 confidence
Hebrews 10:30 NU omits says the Lord
Hebrews 10:32 enlightened
Hebrews 10:34 NU the prisoners instead of me in my chains
Hebrews 10:34 possessions
Hebrews 10:34 NU omits in heaven
Hebrews 10:37 Or that which
Hebrews 10:37 delay
Hebrews 10:38 NU My just one
Hebrews 10:39 destruction

Psalm 112

New King James Version

The Blessed State of the Righteous

112 Praise^[a] the Lord!

Blessed is the man who fears the Lord,
Who ^(A)delights greatly in His commandments.

²^(B)His descendants will be mighty on earth;
The generation of the upright will be blessed.
³^(C)Wealth and riches will be in his house,
And his righteousness ^[b]endures forever.
⁴^(D)Unto the upright there arises light in the darkness;
He is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.
⁵^(E)A good man deals graciously and lends;
He will guide his affairs ^(F)with discretion.
⁶Surely he will never be shaken;
^(G)The righteous will be in everlasting remembrance.
⁷^(H)He will not be afraid of evil tidings;
His heart is steadfast, trusting in the Lord.
⁸His ^(I)heart is established;
^(J)He will not be afraid,
Until he ^(K)sees his desire upon his enemies.

⁹He has dispersed abroad,
He has given to the poor;
His righteousness endures forever;
His ^[c]horn will be exalted with honor.
¹⁰The wicked will see it and be grieved;
He will gnash his teeth and melt away;
The desire of the wicked shall perish.