Leviticus 26
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Rewards for Obeying God
26 “‘Don’t make idols for yourselves or set up ·statues [carved images] or ·memorials [pillars]. Don’t put stone statues in your land to bow down to, because I am the Lord your God [19:4; Ex. 20:4–6; Deut. 5:8–10].
2 “‘·Remember [Keep; Guard] my Sabbaths, and ·respect [fear] my ·Holy Place [sanctuary; 19:3, 30; 23:3; Ex. 20:8–14; Deut. 5:12–15]. I am the Lord.
3 “‘If you ·remember [keep; guard] my ·laws [statutes; ordinances; requirements] and commands and obey them, 4 I will give you rains at the right season [Deut. 11:14]; the land will produce crops, and the trees of the field will produce their fruit. 5 Your threshing will continue until the grape harvest, and your grape harvest will continue until it is time to plant. Then you will have plenty to eat and live ·safely [securely] in your land. 6 I will give peace to your country; you will lie down ·in peace, and no one will make you afraid [L and not be afraid]. I will keep ·harmful [dangerous] animals out of your country, and ·armies [L the sword] will not pass through it.
7 “‘You will ·chase [pursue] your enemies and ·defeat them, killing them with your [L they will fall before you by the] sword. 8 Five of you will ·chase [pursue] a hundred men; a hundred of you will ·chase [pursue] ten thousand men [Deut. 32:30; Josh. 23:10; Is. 30:17]. ·You will defeat your enemies and kill them with your [L They will fall before you by the] sword.
9 “‘Then I will ·show kindness to [L turn toward] you and ·let you have many children [L I will make you fruitful and multiply you]; I will ·keep my agreement [establish my covenant/treaty] with you. 10 You will ·have enough crops to last for more than a year [old grain long stored]. When you harvest the new crops, you will have to throw out the old ones to make room for them. 11 Also I will place my ·Holy Tent [sanctuary] among you, and I will not ·turn away from [L abhor] you. 12 I will walk with you and be your God, and you will be my people. 13 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, where you were slaves. I broke the ·heavy weights that were on your shoulders [bars of your yoke] and let you walk ·proudly [erect; standing tall] again.
Punishment for Not Obeying God
14 “‘But if you do not ·obey [keep; guard] me and ·keep [obey] all my commands, 15 and if you ·turn away from [disdain] my ·rules [statutes; ordinances; requirements] and ·hate [abhor] my ·laws [regulations], refusing to obey all my commands, you have broken our ·agreement [covenant; treaty]. 16 As a result, I will do this to you: I will ·cause terrible things to happen to [bring dread/terror on] you. I will cause you to have disease and fever that will destroy your eyes and slowly kill you. You will not have success when you plant your seed, and your enemy will eat your crops. 17 I will ·be [L set my face] against you, and your enemies will defeat you. These people who hate you will ·rule [exercise dominion] over you, and you will run away even when no one is ·chasing [pursuing] you.
18 “‘If after all this you still do not ·obey [listen to] me, I will ·punish [discipline] you seven times more for your sins. 19 I will break your great pride, and I will make the sky like iron and the earth like bronze [C there would be no rain]. 20 ·You will work hard, but it will not help [L Your strength will be for no purpose]. Your land will not grow any crops, and your trees will not give their fruit.
21 “‘If you still turn against me and refuse to ·obey [listen to] me, I will ·beat [strike] you seven times harder. The more you sin, the more you will be punished. 22 I will send wild animals to attack you, and they will ·take your children away from you and destroy [L bereave you and cut off] your cattle. They will make you so few in number the roads will be empty.
23 “‘If you don’t learn your lesson after all these things, and if you still turn against me, 24 I will also turn against you. I will ·punish [strike] you seven more times for your sins. 25 You broke my agreement, and I will ·punish [L have my revenge against] you. I will bring ·armies [L the sword] against you, and if you go into your cities for safety, I will cause ·diseases [plagues] to spread among you so that ·your enemy will defeat you [L you will be given into the enemy’s hand]. 26 ·There will be very little bread to eat; [L When I break your staff of bread,] ten women will ·be able to cook all [bake] your bread in one oven. They will measure [L by weight] each piece of bread, and you will eat, but you will ·still be hungry [L not be satisfied].
27 “‘If you still refuse to ·listen to [obey] me and still turn against me, 28 I will ·show [L turn against you with] my great anger; I will ·punish [discipline] you seven more times for your sins. 29 You will eat the ·bodies [flesh] of your sons and [L the flesh of your] daughters [Deut. 28:53–57; Is. 49:26; Jer. 19:9; Ezek. 5:10]. 30 I will destroy your ·places where gods are worshiped [L high places] and cut down your incense altars. I will pile your dead bodies on the lifeless forms of your idols [2 Kin. 23:14–16]. I will ·hate [abhor] you. 31 I will ·destroy your cities [make your cities a ruin] and make your holy places ·empty [desolate], and I will not smell the pleasing smell of your offerings. 32 I will make the land ·empty [desolate] so that your enemies who come to live in it will be shocked at it. 33 I will scatter you among the nations, and I will pull out my sword and destroy you. Your land will become empty, your cities a ·waste [ruin]. 34 When you are taken to your enemy’s country, your land will finally get its ·rest [sabbath; 25:1–7]. It will enjoy its ·time of rest [sabbath] all the time it lies empty. 35 During the time the land is empty, it will have the ·rest [sabbath] you should have given it while you lived in it [2 Chr. 36:21].
36 “‘Those of you who are left alive will ·lose their courage [L place despondency in their hearts] in the land of their enemies. ·They will be frightened by the sound of a leaf being blown by the wind [L The sound of a driven leaf will make them flee]. They will ·run [flee] as if someone were chasing them with a sword, and they will fall even when no one is ·chasing [pursuing] them. 37 They will fall over ·each other [L their brother/kinsman], as if ·someone were chasing them with [L before] a sword, even though no one is ·chasing [pursuing] them. You will not be strong enough to stand up against your enemies. 38 You will ·die [perish] among other nations and ·disappear in your enemies’ countries [L the land of your enemies will consume you]. 39 So those who are left alive will ·rot [or pine] away in their enemies’ countries because of their sins. They will also ·rot [or pine] away because of their ·ancestors’ [fathers’] sins.
There Is Always Hope
40 “‘But maybe the people will confess their sins and the sins of their ·ancestors [fathers]; maybe they will admit they turned against me and ·sinned [committed treachery] against me, 41 which made me turn against them and send them into the land of their enemies. If ·these disobedient people [L their uncircumcised hearts; Deut. 10:16; 30:6; Jer. 4:4] are ·sorry for what they did [L humbled] and accept punishment for their sin, 42 I will remember my ·agreement [covenant; treaty] with Jacob [Gen. 35:9–15], my ·agreement [covenant; treaty] with Isaac [Gen. 26:24], and my ·agreement [covenant; treaty] with Abraham [Gen 12:1–3; 15; 17], and I will remember the land. 43 The land will be ·left empty by its people [L forsaken/abandoned of them], and it will enjoy its ·time of rest [sabbath; 25:1–7] as it lies ·bare [desolate] without them. Then those who are left alive will accept the punishment for their sins. They will learn that they were punished because they ·hated [disdained] my ·laws [regulations] and ·refused to obey [abhorred] my ·rules [statutes; ordinances; requirements]. 44 But even though this is true, I will not ·turn away from [disdain] them when they are in the land of their enemies. I will not ·hate [abhor] them so much that I completely destroy them and break my ·agreement [covenant; treaty] with them, because I am the Lord their God. 45 For their good I will remember the ·agreement with their ancestors [L former covenant/treaty], whom I brought out of the land of Egypt [C the covenant with Moses; Ex. 19–24] so I could become their God; the other nations saw these things. I am the Lord.’”
46 These are the ·laws [statutes; ordinances; requirements], ·rules [regulations], and ·teachings [laws; instructions] the Lord made between himself and the Israelites through Moses at Mount Sinai.
Leviticus 26
King James Version
26 Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the Lord your God.
2 Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.
3 If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;
4 Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
5 And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.
6 And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.
7 And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.
8 And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
9 For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.
10 And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new.
11 And I set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you.
12 And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people.
13 I am the Lord your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright.
14 But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments;
15 And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:
16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
17 And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.
18 And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.
19 And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:
20 And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.
21 And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.
22 I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate.
23 And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me;
24 Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.
25 And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
26 And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.
27 And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me;
28 Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.
29 And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.
30 And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.
31 And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.
32 And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.
33 And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.
34 Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.
35 As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.
36 And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.
37 And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.
38 And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.
39 And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.
40 If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;
41 And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:
42 Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.
43 The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.
44 And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the Lord their God.
45 But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I am the Lord.
46 These are the statutes and judgments and laws, which the Lord made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.
Levítico 26
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A bênção pela obediência
(Dt 7.12-16; 28.1-14)
26 Não fabriquem ídolos; não deverão prestar culto a imagens esculpidas ou a estátuas. Porque eu sou o Senhor, o vosso Deus. 2 Devem guardar as minhas leis respeitantes ao repouso do sábado e reverenciar o meu tabernáculo. Eu sou o Senhor.
3 Se andarem conforme as minhas leis e guardarem os meus mandamentos, pondo-os em prática, 4 então vos darei as chuvas a seu tempo, e a terra produzirá abundantes colheitas, as árvores carregar-se-ão de frutos. 5 A ceifa durará até ao tempo da vindima e a vindima até ao tempo das novas sementeiras. Comerão até se fartarem e viverão seguros da terra, 6 porque vos darei paz; poderão dormir sem temores. Afastarei os animais perigosos e as guerras. 7 Perseguirão inimigos, os quais morrerão sob as vossas armas. 8 Cinco porão em fuga uma centena e cem liquidarão dez mil! Derrotarão todos os adversários.
9 Cuidarei de vocês e vos multiplicarei; cumprirei a minha aliança convosco. 10 Hão de ter uma tal abundância de fruto da terra que nem saberão o que fazer com ele quando chegar nova ceifa! 11 Estabelecerei a minha morada no vosso meio; não vos repudiarei. 12 Andarei no vosso meio, serei o vosso Deus e vocês serão o meu povo. 13 Eu sou o Senhor, vosso Deus, que vos tirou da terra do Egito para nunca mais serem escravos. Quebrei as vossas cadeias e farei que vivam com dignidade.
O castigo por desobediência
(Dt 28.15-68)
14 Contudo, se não me ouvirem e não me obedecerem, 15 antes desprezarem e rejeitarem as minhas leis, anulando assim a minha aliança, não obedecendo às minhas leis, eis o que vos farei: 16 castigar-vos-ei com terrores repentinos e com pânico, e ainda com a tuberculose e com febres ardentes que consomem os olhos e vão destruindo a vida. Hão de semear em vão, porque serão os vossos inimigos que colherão os frutos. 17 Serei contra vocês e hão de fugir na frente dos que vos atacam; serão governados por quem vos odeia. Até fugirão sem haver ninguém que vos esteja a perseguir.
18 Se continuarem a desobedecer-me, castigar-vos-ei sete vezes mais severamente ainda, por causa dos vossos pecados. 19 Quebrarei a vossa força orgulhosa. Os céus ser-vos-ão como ferro e a terra como bronze. 20 A vossa força se consumirá em vão; porque a vossa terra não vos dará searas, nem as árvores frutos.
21 E se mesmo assim não me obedecerem e não quiserem ouvir-me, mandar-vos-ei sete vezes mais pragas por causa dos vossos pecados. 22 Enviarei animais ferozes que matarão os vossos filhos, destruirão o vosso gado e vos diminuirão de tal forma que os caminhos ficarão desertos.
23 E se ainda mesmo assim isto não vos fizer mudar, antes continuarem a andar segundo os vossos desejos, contrários aos meus, 24 então também eu me oporei ao vosso querer; eu próprio vos ferirei sete vezes mais por causa do vosso pecado. 25 Castigar-vos-ei por terem quebrado a minha aliança, trazendo a guerra contra vocês. Hão de fugir para a cidade, mas mandarei pragas que vos apanharão e acabarão por ser conquistados pelos inimigos. 26 Destruirei os vossos fornecimentos de comida de tal forma que um só forno será largamente suficiente para cozer pão para dez famílias; e continuarão com fome ainda depois de terem recebido o vosso pequeno quinhão.
27 E se continuarem sem me obedecer, então darei largas ao meu furor; 28 mandar-vos-ei um castigo pelos vossos pecados que seja sete vezes mais intenso. 29 Comerão os vossos próprios filhos e filhas; 30 destruirei os santuários pagãos sobre as colinas em que adoraram ídolos; deitarei abaixo os altares de incenso; deixarei que se amontoem os vossos cadáveres por entre os ídolos destruídos; aborrecer-vos-ei. 31 As cidades ficarão desoladas; destruirei os lugares de culto e não aceitarei as vossas ofertas de incenso. 32 Sim, tornarei deserta a terra; os vossos inimigos viverão nela, eles próprios se espantarão com o que vos fiz. 33 Espalhar-vos-ei entre as nações, fazendo desencadear guerras contra vocês por onde forem. A vossa terra ficará desolada e as cidades destruídas. 34 Então por fim a terra descansará e se recomporá dos muitos anos em que não a deixaram repousar; pois manter-se-á desolada todos os anos em que estiverem cativos nas terras dos inimigos. 35 Sim, então a terra descansará e desfrutará dos seus sábados. Poderá recompor-se do repouso que não lhe deram todos os sete anos, quando lá viviam.
36 Os que ficarem vivos serão levados para terras distantes como prisioneiros de guerra e como escravos, e lá viverão em constantes terrores. O som de uma folha levada pelo vento os fará fugir como se estivessem a ser ameaçados por um homem armado. Cairão sem que alguém os persiga. 37 Sim, mesmo sem ninguém a persegui-los, cairão uns sobre os outros na precipitação, como se fugissem de uma batalha em que não conseguissem suster a força do inimigo. 38 Hão de perecer entre as nações e ser destruídos pelos vossos adversários. 39 E os que ainda ficarem desfalecerão nas terras dos inimigos por causa dos seus pecados, os mesmos dos seus pais.
40 Mas por fim, se confessarem o seu pecado e as iniquidades que os pais praticaram contra mim, que fizeram que se voltassem contra mim, 41 e eu contra eles, e os levasse para as terras dos seus inimigos; se por fim os seus maus corações se humilharem e aceitarem o castigo que lhes enviei por causa dos seus pecados, 42 então me lembrarei da minha aliança feita a Abraão, a Isaque e a Jacob, e da terra que ficou desolada. 43 A terra desfrutará dos sábados, enquanto está desolada, e por fim aceitarão o castigo por terem rejeitado as minhas leis e desprezado os meus regulamentos. 44 Apesar de tudo o que fizeram, não os destruirei totalmente nem invalidarei a minha aliança com eles, porque sou o Senhor, o seu Deus. 45 Pois trouxe os seus antepassados do Egito, perante a admiração das nações que observavam tudo isso. Eu sou o Senhor.”
46 Estas foram as leis, mandamentos e instruções que o Senhor deu ao povo de Israel, por meio de Moisés, junto ao monte Sinai.
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