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.
7 You 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.
10 You 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.
13 I 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,
15 and 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,
16 I 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.
17 I 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.
19 I will (AD)break the pride of your power;
I (AE)will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze.
20 And 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.
25 And (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,
28 then 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.
31 I 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.
35 As 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.
38 You shall (BB)perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.
39 And 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,
41 and 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—
42 then 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.
44 Yet 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.
45 But (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 26
English Standard Version
Blessings for Obedience
26 “You shall not make (A)idols for yourselves or erect an (B)image or (C)pillar, and you shall not set up a (D)figured stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the Lord your God. 2 (E)You shall keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.
3 (F)“If you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them, 4 then (G)I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. 5 (H)Your threshing shall last to the time of the grape harvest, and the grape harvest shall last to the time for sowing. And (I)you shall eat your bread to the full and (J)dwell in your land securely. 6 (K)I will give peace in the land, and (L)you shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid. And (M)I will remove harmful beasts from the land, (N)and the sword shall not go through your land. 7 You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword. 8 (O)Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand, and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword. 9 (P)I will turn to you and (Q)make you fruitful and multiply you and will confirm my covenant with you. 10 You shall eat (R)old store long kept, and you shall clear out the old to make way for the new. 11 (S)I will make my dwelling[a] among you, and my soul shall not abhor you. 12 (T)And I (U)will walk among you and will be your God, and you shall be my people. 13 (V)I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves. (W)And I have broken the bars of your yoke and made you walk erect.
Punishment for Disobedience
14 (X)“But if you will not listen to me and will not do all these commandments, 15 if you spurn my statutes, and if your soul abhors my rules, so that you will not do all my commandments, but (Y)break my covenant, 16 then I will do this to you: I will visit you with panic, with (Z)wasting disease and fever that consume the eyes and make the heart ache. And (AA)you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. 17 I will (AB)set my face against you, and (AC)you shall be struck down before your enemies. (AD)Those who hate you shall rule over you, and (AE)you shall flee when none pursues you. 18 And if in spite of this you will not listen to me, then I will discipline you again (AF)sevenfold for your sins, 19 and I will break (AG)the pride of your power, and I (AH)will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze. 20 And (AI)your strength shall be spent in vain, for (AJ)your land shall not yield its increase, and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.
21 (AK)“Then if you walk contrary to me and will not listen to me, I will continue striking you, sevenfold for your sins. 22 And (AL)I will let loose the wild beasts against you, which shall bereave you of your children and destroy your livestock and make you few in number, so that (AM)your roads shall be deserted.
23 “And (AN)if by this discipline you are not turned to me (AO)but walk contrary to me, 24 (AP)then I also will walk contrary to you, and I myself will strike you sevenfold for your sins. 25 And (AQ)I will bring a sword upon you, that shall execute vengeance for the covenant. And if you gather within your cities, (AR)I will send pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy. 26 (AS)When I break your supply[b] of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in a single oven and shall dole out your bread again by weight, and (AT)you shall eat and not be satisfied.
27 “But (AU)if in spite of this you will not listen to me, but walk contrary to me, 28 then I will walk contrary to you (AV)in fury, and I myself will discipline you (AW)sevenfold for your sins. 29 (AX)You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters. 30 And (AY)I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars and (AZ)cast your dead bodies upon the dead bodies of your idols, and my soul will abhor you. 31 And I will (BA)lay your cities waste and will (BB)make your sanctuaries desolate, and (BC)I will not smell your pleasing aromas. 32 And (BD)I myself will devastate the land, so that your enemies who settle in it shall be (BE)appalled at it. 33 And (BF)I will scatter you among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword after you, and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.
34 (BG)“Then the land shall enjoy[c] its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate, while you are in your enemies' land; then the land shall rest, and enjoy its Sabbaths. 35 As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, the rest that it did not have on your Sabbaths when you were dwelling in it. 36 And as for those of you who are left, (BH)I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The (BI)sound of a (BJ)driven leaf shall put them to flight, and they shall flee as one flees from the sword, and they shall fall when none pursues. 37 They shall stumble over one another, as if to escape a sword, though none pursues. And (BK)you shall have no power to stand before your enemies. 38 And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up. 39 And those of you who are left shall (BL)rot away in your enemies' lands because of their iniquity, and also because of the iniquities of their fathers they shall rot away like them.
40 “But if (BM)they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers in their treachery that they (BN)committed against me, and also in walking contrary to me, 41 so that I walked contrary to them and brought them into the land of their enemies—if then their (BO)uncircumcised heart is (BP)humbled and they make amends for their iniquity, 42 then I will (BQ)remember my covenant with Jacob, and I will remember my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will (BR)remember the land. 43 But (BS)the land shall be abandoned by them and enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them, and they shall make amends for their iniquity, because they spurned my rules and their soul abhorred my statutes. 44 Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, (BT)I will not spurn them, neither will I abhor them so as to destroy them utterly and (BU)break my covenant with them, for I am the Lord their God. 45 But I will for their sake remember the covenant with their forefathers, (BV)whom I brought out of the land of Egypt (BW)in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am the Lord.”
46 (BX)These are the statutes and rules and laws that the Lord made between himself and the people of Israel through Moses (BY)on Mount Sinai.
Footnotes
- Leviticus 26:11 Hebrew tabernacle
- Leviticus 26:26 Hebrew staff
- Leviticus 26:34 Or pay for; twice in this verse; also verse 43
Lévitique 26
La Bible du Semeur
Les sanctions de l’alliance
Les bénédictions
26 Vous ne vous fabriquerez pas d’idoles, vous ne vous dresserez ni statue ni stèle, et vous ne mettrez pas dans votre pays de pierre sculptée avec des figures pour vous prosterner devant elle ; car je suis l’Eternel, votre Dieu[a].
2 Vous observerez les jours de repos que je vous ai prescrits et vous révérerez mon sanctuaire. Je suis l’Eternel.
3 Si vous suivez mes ordonnances, si vous obéissez à mes commandements et si vous les appliquez[b], 4 je vous donnerai vos pluies en leur saison[c], la terre livrera ses produits et les vergers donneront leurs fruits. 5 Vous serez encore en train de battre le blé quand viendra le temps de la vendange et celle-ci durera jusqu’aux semailles[d] ; vous mangerez du pain à satiété, et vous habiterez en sécurité dans votre pays. 6 Je ferai régner la paix dans le pays ; quand vous vous coucherez, rien ne viendra troubler votre sommeil. Je ferai disparaître du pays les animaux nuisibles, et l’épée ne traversera pas votre territoire. 7 Vous poursuivrez vos ennemis, et ils succomberont devant vous sous les coups de l’épée. 8 Cinq d’entre vous en poursuivront cent, et cent d’entre vous en mettront dix mille en fuite, et vos ennemis tomberont devant vous sous les coups de l’épée. 9 Je prendrai soin de vous, je vous rendrai féconds et vous multiplierai, et je maintiendrai mon alliance avec vous. 10 Vous pourrez vivre longtemps de la récolte précédente, et vous devrez sortir l’ancienne pour engranger la nouvelle. 11 Je mettrai ma demeure au milieu de vous, et je ne vous rejetterai pas. 12 Je marcherai au milieu de vous : je serai votre Dieu et vous serez mon peuple[e]. 13 Je suis l’Eternel votre Dieu, qui vous ai fait sortir d’Egypte et vous ai libérés de l’esclavage. J’ai brisé les barres de votre joug et je vous ai fait marcher la tête haute.
Les malédictions
14 Mais si vous ne m’écoutez pas, et si vous n’appliquez pas tous ces commandements, 15 si vous méprisez mes ordonnances et si vous rejetez mes lois, pour ne plus appliquer tous mes commandements, si vous violez ainsi mon alliance, 16 voici comment j’agirai envers vous : j’interviendrai contre vous pour vous plonger dans l’épouvante et vous envoyer le dépérissement et la fièvre qui consumeront vos yeux et vous mineront. Vous répandrez en vain vos semences, car vos ennemis s’empareront de vos récoltes. 17 Je me retournerai contre vous : vous serez battus par vos ennemis ; ceux qui vous haïssent domineront sur vous ; vous fuirez même sans que personne ne vous poursuive.
18 Si malgré cela vous ne m’écoutez pas encore, je vous infligerai, pour vos péchés, une correction sept fois plus sévère. 19 Je briserai la force dont vous vous enorgueillissez ; je rendrai le ciel au-dessus de vous dur comme du fer, et votre terre comme du bronze. 20 Vous épuiserez vos forces en vains efforts ; vos terres ne produiront plus rien et les vergers ne porteront plus de fruit.
21 Si vous continuez à me résister en refusant de m’écouter, je vous infligerai sept fois plus de coups pour vous punir de vos péchés. 22 Je lâcherai contre vous les bêtes sauvages qui vous raviront vos enfants, déchireront vos bêtes et vous réduiront à un petit nombre, en sorte que vos chemins deviendront déserts[f].
23 Et si, malgré ces châtiments, vous ne vous laissez pas corriger par moi, si vous vous opposez à moi, 24 moi aussi, je m’opposerai à vous et je vous frapperai moi aussi sept fois plus à cause de vos péchés. 25 Je déclencherai des guerres contre vous pour vous punir d’avoir transgressé l’alliance. Si vous vous réfugiez dans vos villes, je déchaînerai la peste au milieu de vous, et vous serez livrés à la merci de l’ennemi. 26 Je vous couperai les vivres, de sorte que dix femmes pourront cuire tout votre pain dans un seul four, elles vous le distribueront par rations pesées, et il n’apaisera pas votre faim.
27 Si malgré cela vous ne m’écoutez pas, si vous continuez à vous opposer à moi, 28 je m’opposerai à vous avec fureur et je vous corrigerai encore sept fois plus à cause de vos péchés. 29 Vous mangerez vos propres enfants. 30 Je dévasterai vos lieux de culte sur les hauteurs, j’abattrai vos autels à parfum, j’entasserai vos cadavres sur les cadavres de vos idoles, et je vous prendrai en aversion. 31 Je réduirai vos villes en ruine, je ravagerai vos sanctuaires, je ne me laisserai pas apaiser par l’odeur de vos sacrifices. 32 Je dévasterai moi-même le pays, de sorte que vos ennemis venus l’occuper en seront stupéfaits. 33 Quant à vous, je vous disperserai parmi des peuples étrangers et je vous poursuivrai avec l’épée, votre pays sera dévasté et vos villes deviendront des monceaux de ruines.
34 Alors la terre jouira d’années de repos durant tout le temps qu’elle sera désolée et que vous serez dans le pays de vos ennemis ; enfin elle chômera et jouira de son repos[g]. 35 Durant toute cette période où elle demeurera dévastée, elle se reposera pour les années de repos dont vous l’aurez frustrée le temps que vous l’aurez habitée.
36 Quant à ceux d’entre vous qui survivront, je plongerai leur cœur dans l’angoisse en exil, chez leurs ennemis ; au seul bruit d’une feuille, ils fuiront comme on fuit devant l’épée de l’ennemi et ils tomberont sans que personne les poursuive. 37 Ils trébucheront l’un sur l’autre comme lorsqu’on fuit devant l’épée sans que personne ne les poursuive, et ils seront incapables de résister à leurs ennemis. 38 Vous périrez chez des peuples étrangers et le pays de vos ennemis vous dévorera. 39 Ceux d’entre vous qui survivront dépériront dans le pays de vos ennemis à cause de leurs péchés et aussi à cause de ceux de leurs ancêtres.
L’Eternel maintiendra son alliance
40 Alors ils reconnaîtront leur faute et celle de leurs ancêtres, qu’ils ont commises en se rebellant contre moi et en s’opposant à moi. 41 C’est à cause de cela qu’à mon tour je m’opposerai à eux et que je les enverrai dans le pays de leurs ennemis. Si alors leur cœur incirconcis s’humilie et qu’ils reconnaissent que leur châtiment est juste[h], 42 j’agirai en fonction de mon alliance avec Jacob, de mon alliance avec Isaac, et de mon alliance avec Abraham, et j’interviendrai en faveur du pays[i]. 43 Car le pays sera abandonné par eux et il jouira du repos, après sa dévastation, pendant leur absence. Ils reconnaîtront la justice de leur châtiment, parce qu’ils auront méprisé mes commandements et rejeté mes lois. 44 Et pourtant, même alors, lorsqu’ils seront dans le pays de leurs ennemis, je ne les rejetterai pas et je ne les prendrai pas en aversion au point de les exterminer et de rompre mon alliance avec eux ; car je suis l’Eternel leur Dieu. 45 J’agirai en leur faveur conformément à l’alliance conclue avec leurs ancêtres que j’ai fait sortir d’Egypte aux yeux des autres peuples pour être leur Dieu : je suis l’Eternel.
Conclusion
46 Telles sont les ordonnances, les articles de droit et les lois que l’Eternel établit entre lui et les Israélites au mont Sinaï, par l’intermédiaire de Moïse.
Footnotes
- 26.1 Voir 19.4.
- 26.3 Pour les v. 3-5, voir Dt 11.13-15.
- 26.4 Les deux saisons de pluies nécessaires à la fertilité du sol : celles d’automne (octobre-décembre) pour ameublir le sol avant les semailles, celles de printemps pour faire grossir les grains et les fruits.
- 26.5 La moisson sera si abondante que le battage du blé se prolongera jusqu’en septembre, et la vendange si productive qu’elle durera jusqu’à fin octobre (voir Am 9.13).
- 26.12 Cité en 2 Co 6.16 ; Ap 21.3.
- 26.22 Les fauves se multiplient dans les campagnes dépeuplées (2 R 17.26 ; Ez 5.17).
- 26.34 Voir 2 Ch 36.21.
- 26.41 Autres traductions : qu’ils reconnaissent leurs fautes, ou : qu’ils fassent amende honorable pour leurs fautes.
- 26.42 Voir Gn 12.7 ; 17.7-8 ; 26.3-4 ; 28.13-14.
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