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Leviticus 26
Lexham English Bible

Blessings for Obedience

26 “‘You[a] shall not make for yourselves idols and divine images, and you shall not raise up stone pillars for yourselves, and you shall not put a sculptured stone in your land in order to[b] worship before it, because I am Yahweh your God.

2 “‘You shall keep my Sabbaths, and you shall revere my sanctuary; I am Yahweh.

3 “‘If you walk in my statutes and you keep my commands and you do them, 4 then[c] I will give you rains in their time, and the land shall give its produce, and the trees of the field shall give their fruit. 5 And for you the threshing season shall overtake the grape harvest, and the grape harvest shall overtake the sowing, and you shall eat your food to your fill[d] and you shall live securely[e] in your land. 6 And I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and there shall not be anybody who makes you afraid,[f] and I will remove harmful animals from the land, and no sword shall pass through your land.[g] 7 And you shall pursue your enemies, and they shall fall by the sword before you.[h] 8 And five of[i] you shall pursue a hundred, and a hundred of[j] you shall pursue a myriad;[k] and your enemies shall fall by the sword before you.[l] 9 And I will turn to you, and I will make you fruitful, and I will make you numerous; and I will keep my covenant with you. 10 And you shall eat old grain,[m] and you shall clear away the old before the new.[n] 11 And I will put my dwelling place in your midst, and my inner self[o] shall not abhor you. 12 And I will walk about in your midst, and I shall be your God,[p] and you shall be my people.[q] 13 I am Yahweh, your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt, from being their slaves; and I broke the bars of your yoke, and I caused you to walk erectly.

Punishment for Disobedience

14 “‘But[r] if you do not listen to me and you do not carry out[s] all these commands, 15 and if you reject my statutes and if your inner self[t] abhors my regulations, to not carry out[u] all my commands by your breaking my covenant, 16 I in turn[v] will do this to you: then[w] I will summon onto you horror, the wasting disease, and the fever that wastes eyes and that drains away life; and you shall sow your seed in vain,[x] and your enemies shall eat it. 17 And I will set my face against you, and you shall be defeated before[y] your enemies; and your haters shall rule over you, and you shall flee away, but[z] there shall not be anybody who is pursuing[aa] you.

18 “‘And if in spite of these things you do not listen to me, then[ab] I will continue to discipline you seven times for your sins. 19 And I will break the pride of your strength; and I will make your heaven like iron[ac] and your land like copper. 20 And your strength shall be consumed in vain;[ad] and your land shall not give its produce, and the land’s trees shall not give their fruit.

21 “‘And if you go against me in hostility and you are not willing to listen to me, then[ae] I will add a plague onto you seven times according to your sins. 22 And I will send wild animals[af] out among you, and they shall make you childless, and they shall cut down your domestic animals, and they shall make you fewer; and your roads shall be desolate.

23 “‘And if you do not accept correction from[ag] me through these things, but[ah] you go against me in hostility, 24 then[ai] I myself[aj] will also go against you in hostility, and I myself[ak] also will strike you seven times for your sins. 25 And I will bring upon you a sword that seeks vengeance for the covenant, and you shall be gathered to your cities; and I will send a plague in your midst, and you shall be given into the hand of an enemy. 26 At my breaking the supply[al] of bread[am] for you, then[an] ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall return your bread by weight; and you shall eat it, and you shall not be satisfied.

27 “‘And if through this you do not listen to me and you go against me in hostility, 28 then[ao] I will go against you in hostile anger, and also[ap] I myself[aq] will discipline you seven times for 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 destroy your high places, and I will cut down your incense altars, and I will place your corpses on your idols’ corpses; and my inner self[ar] shall abhor you. 31 And I will lay your cities in ruins, and I will lay waste your sanctuaries; and I shall not smell your sacrifices’[as] appeasing fragrance. 32 And I myself[at] will lay waste the land, and your enemies who are living in it shall be appalled over it. 33 And I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw a sword behind you; and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a ruin. 34 Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths all the days of its lying desolate, and you shall be in the land of your enemies; then the land shall rest, and it shall enjoy its Sabbaths. 35 All the days of its lying desolate it shall rest for the time[au] that it had not rested during your Sabbaths while you were living on it. 36 As for[av] the ones who remain among you, I will bring[aw] fearfulness in their hearts in the land of their enemies; and a sound of a windblown leaf shall pursue them, and they shall flee like flight before[ax] a sword, and they shall fall, but[ay] there shall not be a pursuer. 37 And they shall stumble over one another[az] as from before[ba] a sword, but[bb] there shall not be a pursuer; and you shall have no resistance[bc] before[bd] your enemies. 38 And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you. 39 And because of their guilt, the ones among you who remain shall decay in the land of their enemies; and also because of the iniquities of their ancestors,[be] they shall decay with them.

40 “‘But[bf] when they confess their guilt and the guilt of their ancestors[bg] in their infidelity that they displayed against me, and moreover that they went against me in hostility— 41 I myself[bh] also[bi] went against them in hostility, and I brought them into the land of their enemies—or if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled and then they pay for their guilt, 42 I will remember[bj] my covenant with Jacob; and I will remember also my covenant with Isaac and also my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land. 43 And the land shall be deserted by them, and it shall enjoy its Sabbaths in its being desolate from them, and they themselves[bk] must pay for their guilt, simply because[bl] they rejected my regulations, and their inner self[bm] abhorred my statutes. 44 And in spite of[bn] this, when they are[bo] in the land of their enemies I will not reject them, and I will not abhor them to destroy them, to break my covenant with them, because I am Yahweh their God. 45 And I will remember the first covenant for them[bp]—whom I brought out from the land of Egypt in the sight of[bq] the nations to be their God.[br] I am Yahweh.’”

46 These are the rules and the regulations and the laws that Yahweh gave between himself and the Israelites[bs] on Mount Sinai[bt] through[bu] Moses.

Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 26:1 Plural throughout the entire chapter
  2. Leviticus 26:1 Or “to”
  3. Leviticus 26:4 Or “and”
  4. Leviticus 26:5 Literally “to contentment”
  5. Leviticus 26:5 Literally “with confidence”
  6. Leviticus 26:6 Literally “who makes afraid” or “making afraid”
  7. Leviticus 26:6 Literally “a sword shall not pass through in your land”
  8. Leviticus 26:7 Literally “to your faces”
  9. Leviticus 26:8 Hebrew “from”
  10. Leviticus 26:8 Hebrew “from”
  11. Leviticus 26:8 Or “ten thousand”
  12. Leviticus 26:8 Literally “to your faces”
  13. Leviticus 26:10 Literally “old what is stale”
  14. Leviticus 26:10 Literally “old from the faces of new you shall bring out”
  15. Leviticus 26:11 Or “soul”
  16. Leviticus 26:12 Or “as a God for you”
  17. Leviticus 26:12 Or “as a people for me”
  18. Leviticus 26:14 Or “And”
  19. Leviticus 26:14 Or “you do not do” or “you do not observe” or “you do not perform”
  20. Leviticus 26:15 Or “soul”
  21. Leviticus 26:15 Or “do” or “observe” or “perform”
  22. Leviticus 26:16 Literally “also” or “indeed”
  23. Leviticus 26:16 Or “and”
  24. Leviticus 26:16 Literally “for the emptiness”
  25. Leviticus 26:17 Literally “to the faces of”
  26. Leviticus 26:17 Or “and”
  27. Leviticus 26:17 Literally “who pursues” or “pursuing”
  28. Leviticus 26:18 Or “and”
  29. Leviticus 26:19 Or “iron ore”
  30. Leviticus 26:20 Literally “to the emptiness”
  31. Leviticus 26:21 Or “and”
  32. Leviticus 26:22 Literally “the animals of the field”
  33. Leviticus 26:23 Hebrew “for” or “to”
  34. Leviticus 26:23 Or “and”
  35. Leviticus 26:24 Or “and”
  36. Leviticus 26:24 Emphatic personal pronoun
  37. Leviticus 26:24 Emphatic personal pronoun
  38. Leviticus 26:26 Literally “staff”
  39. Leviticus 26:26 Or “food”
  40. Leviticus 26:26 Or “and”
  41. Leviticus 26:28 Or “and”
  42. Leviticus 26:28 Or “surely”
  43. Leviticus 26:28 Emphatic personal pronoun
  44. Leviticus 26:30 Or “soul”
  45. Leviticus 26:31 Implied by the use of the same phraseology in regard to the sacrifices in the early chapters of the book
  46. Leviticus 26:32 Emphatic personal pronoun
  47. Leviticus 26:35 Implied by context
  48. Leviticus 26:36 Or “And”
  49. Leviticus 26:36 Or “and I will bring”
  50. Leviticus 26:36 Literally “of”
  51. Leviticus 26:36 Or “and”
  52. Leviticus 26:37 Literally “a man on his brother”
  53. Leviticus 26:37 Literally “from the faces of”
  54. Leviticus 26:37 Or “and”
  55. Leviticus 26:37 Literally “it shall not be for you resistance”
  56. Leviticus 26:37 Literally “to the faces of”
  57. Leviticus 26:39 Or “fathers”
  58. Leviticus 26:40 Or “And”
  59. Leviticus 26:40 Or “fathers”
  60. Leviticus 26:41 Emphatic personal pronoun
  61. Leviticus 26:41 Or “surely”
  62. Leviticus 26:42 Or “and I will remember”
  63. Leviticus 26:43 Emphatic personal pronoun
  64. Leviticus 26:43 Literally “because and in because”
  65. Leviticus 26:43 Or “soul”
  66. Leviticus 26:44 Literally “also even” or “moreover also” or “moreover even”
  67. Leviticus 26:44 Literally “in their being”
  68. Leviticus 26:45 Or “on behalf of them” or “on their behalf”
  69. Leviticus 26:45 Literally “to the eyes of” or “for the eyes of”
  70. Leviticus 26:45 Literally “to be for them for God” or “to be for them as a God”
  71. Leviticus 26:46 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  72. Leviticus 26:46 Literally “the mountain of Sinai”
  73. Leviticus 26:46 Literally “in/by the hand of”
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Leviticus 26
New Living Translation

Blessings for Obedience

26 “Do not make idols or set up carved images, or sacred pillars, or sculptured stones in your land so you may worship them. I am the Lord your God. 2 You must keep my Sabbath days of rest and show reverence for my sanctuary. I am the Lord.

3 “If you follow my decrees and are careful to obey my commands, 4 I will send you the seasonal rains. The land will then yield its crops, and the trees of the field will produce their fruit. 5 Your threshing season will overlap with the grape harvest, and your grape harvest will overlap with the season of planting grain. You will eat your fill and live securely in your own land.

6 “I will give you peace in the land, and you will be able to sleep with no cause for fear. I will rid the land of wild animals and keep your enemies out of your land. 7 In fact, you will chase down your enemies and slaughter them with your swords. 8 Five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand! All your enemies will fall beneath your sword.

9 “I will look favorably upon you, making you fertile and multiplying your people. And I will fulfill my covenant with you. 10 You will have such a surplus of crops that you will need to clear out the old grain to make room for the new harvest! 11 I will live among you, and I will not despise you. 12 I will walk among you; I will be your God, and you will be my people. 13 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so you would no longer be their slaves. I broke the yoke of slavery from your neck so you can walk with your heads held high.

Punishments for Disobedience

14 “However, if you do not listen to me or obey all these commands, 15 and if you break my covenant by rejecting my decrees, treating my regulations with contempt, and refusing to obey my commands, 16 I will punish you. I will bring sudden terrors upon you—wasting diseases and burning fevers that will cause your eyes to fail and your life to ebb away. You will plant your crops in vain because your enemies will eat them. 17 I will turn against you, and you will be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you, and you will run even when no one is chasing you!

18 “And if, in spite of all this, you still disobey me, I will punish you seven times over for your sins. 19 I will break your proud spirit by making the skies as unyielding as iron and the earth as hard as bronze. 20 All your work will be for nothing, for your land will yield no crops, and your trees will bear no fruit.

21 “If even then you remain hostile toward me and refuse to obey me, I will inflict disaster on you seven times over for your sins. 22 I will send wild animals that will rob you of your children and destroy your livestock. Your numbers will dwindle, and your roads will be deserted.

23 “And if you fail to learn the lesson and continue your hostility toward me, 24 then I myself will be hostile toward you. I will personally strike you with calamity seven times over for your sins. 25 I will send armies against you to carry out the curse of the covenant you have broken. When you run to your towns for safety, I will send a plague to destroy you there, and you will be handed over to your enemies. 26 I will destroy your food supply, so that ten women will need only one oven to bake bread for their families. They will ration your food by weight, and though you have food to eat, you will not be satisfied.

27 “If in spite of all this you still refuse to listen and still remain hostile toward me, 28 then I will give full vent to my hostility. I myself will punish you seven times over for your sins. 29 Then you will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters. 30 I will destroy your pagan shrines and knock down your places of worship. I will leave your lifeless corpses piled on top of your lifeless idols,[a] and I will despise you. 31 I will make your cities desolate and destroy your places of pagan worship. I will take no pleasure in your offerings that should be a pleasing aroma to me. 32 Yes, I myself will devastate your land, and your enemies who come to occupy it will be appalled at what they see. 33 I will scatter you among the nations and bring out my sword against you. Your land will become desolate, and your cities will lie in ruins. 34 Then at last the land will enjoy its neglected Sabbath years as it lies desolate while you are in exile in the land of your enemies. Then the land will finally rest and enjoy the Sabbaths it missed. 35 As long as the land lies in ruins, it will enjoy the rest you never allowed it to take every seventh year while you lived in it.

36 “And for those of you who survive, I will demoralize you in the land of your enemies. You will live in such fear that the sound of a leaf driven by the wind will send you fleeing. You will run as though fleeing from a sword, and you will fall even when no one pursues you. 37 Though no one is chasing you, you will stumble over each other as though fleeing from a sword. You will have no power to stand up against your enemies. 38 You will die among the foreign nations and be devoured in the land of your enemies. 39 Those of you who survive will waste away in your enemies’ lands because of their sins and the sins of their ancestors.

40 “But at last my people will confess their sins and the sins of their ancestors for betraying me and being hostile toward me. 41 When I have turned their hostility back on them and brought them to the land of their enemies, then at last their stubborn hearts will be humbled, and they will pay for their sins. 42 Then I will remember my covenant with Jacob and my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land. 43 For the land must be abandoned to enjoy its years of Sabbath rest as it lies deserted. At last the people will pay for their sins, for they have continually rejected my regulations and despised my decrees.

44 “But despite all this, I will not utterly reject or despise them while they are in exile in the land of their enemies. I will not cancel my covenant with them by wiping them out, for I am the Lord their God. 45 For their sakes I will remember my ancient covenant with their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of all the nations, that I might be their God. I am the Lord.”

46 These are the decrees, regulations, and instructions that the Lord gave through Moses on Mount Sinai as evidence of the relationship between himself and the Israelites.

Footnotes

  1. 26:30 The Hebrew term (literally round things) probably alludes to dung.
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