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Leviticus 26
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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.
3 Moseboken 26
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3 Moseboken 26
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Lydnad innebär välsignelse
(5 Mos 7:12-16; 28:1-14)
26 Ni får inte göra er några avgudar eller sätta upp stenstoder eller ställa uthuggna stenar i ert land för att tillbe dem. Jag är Herren, er Gud.
2 Ni ska hålla mina sabbater och visa vördnad för min helgedom, för jag är Herren.
3 Om ni lyder mina stadgar och håller mina bud och rättar er efter dem, 4 ska jag ge er regn regelbundet. Landet ska ge sin skörd och träden sin frukt. 5 Ni ska få tröska tills det är dags för druvskörden och den ska i sin tur pågå tills det åter är dags att så. Ni ska få äta er mätta och bo tryggt i landet.
6 Jag kommer att ge er fred i landet och ni ska kunna gå till vila utan att behöva vara rädda. Jag ska driva bort alla farliga djur och inget svärd ska mer gå fram genom ert land. 7 Ni ska förfölja era fiender och de ska dö för era svärd. 8 Fem av er ska driva bort hundra och hundra ska driva bort tiotusen. Era fiender ska falla för era svärd.
9 Jag ska beskydda er, göra er fruktsamma och föröka er och upprätthålla mitt förbund med er. 10 Ni ska ha ett sådant överflöd av säd att äta att ni inte kommer att veta vad ni ska göra med den när nästa skörd är mogen. 11 Jag ska bo hos er och ska inte överge er. 12 Jag ska vandra ibland er och vara er Gud och ni ska vara mitt folk. 13 För jag är Herren, er Gud, som ledde er ut ur Egyptens land för att ni inte skulle behöva vara slavar. Jag har brutit sönder ert ok så att ni kan vandra fram med värdighet.
Följden av olydnad
(5 Mos 28:15-68)
14 Men om ni inte lyssnar till mig eller lyder mina bud 15 utan förkastar mina stadgar och föraktar mina befallningar så att ni inte handlar efter mina bud utan bryter mitt förbund, 16 så ska jag låta er drabbas av ångest, förödande sjukdom och brännande feber. Er syn ska försvagas och era liv förkortas. Ni ska så er säd förgäves och era fiender ska äta upp skörden.
17 Jag ska vända mig mot er och ni kommer att bli slagna av era fiender. De som hatar er kommer att regera över er. Ni kommer till och med att fly fast ingen förföljer er. 18 Om ni då fortfarande är olydiga mot mig, ska jag straffa er sju gånger värre för era synder. 19 Jag ska krossa ert stolta övermod och göra så att er himmel blir som järn och er jord som koppar. 20 Ni ska använda era krafter förgäves. Ert land ska inte ge skördar och era träd ska vara utan frukt.
21 Om ni ändå fortsätter med er fientliga inställning mot mig och inte vill lyssna till mig, ska jag låta er drabbas sju gånger värre såsom era synder förtjänar. 22 Jag ska sända vilda djur som ska döda era barn, fördärva era boskapshjordar och minska ert antal så att vägarna blir öde.
23 Om inte ens detta får er att bättra er utan ni fortsätter att vandra i strid mot min vilja, 24 ska jag möta er med samma fientlighet och göra det sju gånger värre för era synders skull. 25 Jag ska hämnas med svärd för att ni brutit förbundet med mig. Ni ska tvingas fly till era städer, jag ska sända sjukdomar bland er där och ni kommer att besegras av era fiender. 26 Jag ska förstöra era livsmedelsförråd, så att tio kvinnor ska i en enda ugn kunna baka ert bröd. Ni ska fortfarande vara hungriga efter att ha ätit de ransoner som vägs upp åt er.
27 Om ni då fortfarande inte lyssnar till mig utan fortsätter med er fientliga inställning, 28 ska jag låta min vrede komma lös över er och sända sju gånger värre straff för era synder. 29 Ni ska äta era egna söner och döttrar. 30 Jag ska förgöra era offerplatser, hugga ner era rökelsealtaren och lämna era döda kroppar att ligga och ruttna bland avgudarna. Jag ska avsky er. 31 Jag ska göra era städer öde och förstöra era helgedomar och kommer inte att finna lukten av era offer som behaglig. 32 Jag ska ödelägga ert land, så att era fiender som bor där kommer att förvånas.
33 Jag kommer att sprida ut er bland de olika folken och förfölja er med draget svärd. Ert land ska bli öde och era städer förstörda. 34 Då ska landet få gottgörelse för sina sabbater under den tid det ligger öde och ni är fångar i fiendeland. Då ska landet vila och njuta av sina sabbater. 35 Hela den tid landet ligger öde ska det ha den sabbatsvila det inte fick under era sabbater medan ni bodde där.
36 Jag kommer att göra dem som lämnats kvar så ängsliga i sina hjärtan i sina fienders länder att ljudet av ett löv som virvlar runt i vinden får dem att fly som om de förföljdes av en man med svärd. De ska falla när ingen jagar dem. 37 Även om ingen förföljer dem ska de snubbla över varandra i flykten som om de flydde för svärd. Ni kommer inte att kunna stå emot era fiender. 38 Ni ska förgås bland folken och uppslukas av era fienders land. 39 De som är kvar ska tyna bort i fiendeland på grund av sina egna synder men också på grund av sina förfäders synder.
40 Men då ska de bekänna både sina egna och sina förfäders synder, att de och deras förfäder syndat genom att handla trolöst mot mig och genom att avvisa mig 41 så att jag också visat fientlighet mot dem och fört dem till fiendens land. När slutligen deras onda hjärtan ödmjukar sig och de sonar sina synder, 42 ska jag på nytt komma ihåg mitt förbund med Abraham, Isak och Jakob och jag ska tänka på landet. 43 Landet ska överges av dem och få njuta av sina sabbater medan det ligger öde utan dem. Då ska de sona sitt brott för att de förkastat mina stadgar och avskytt mina befallningar. 44 Trots detta ska jag ändå inte – medan de är i sina fienders land – utrota dem och bryta mitt förbund med dem, för jag är Herren, deras Gud. 45 För deras skull ska jag tänka på mitt förbund med deras förfäder som jag ledde ut ur Egypten medan alla folk såg på, för att jag skulle vara deras Gud. Jag är Herren.’ ”
46 Det här var de stadgar, bud och lagar som Herren gav genom Mose på Sinai berg.
Leviticus 26
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Leviticus 26
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Reward for Obedience
26 “‘Do not make idols(A) or set up an image(B) or a sacred stone(C) for yourselves, and do not place a carved stone(D) in your land to bow down before it. I am the Lord your God.
2 “‘Observe my Sabbaths(E) and have reverence for my sanctuary.(F) I am the Lord.
3 “‘If you follow my decrees and are careful to obey(G) my commands, 4 I will send you rain(H) in its season,(I) and the ground will yield its crops and the trees their fruit.(J) 5 Your threshing will continue until grape harvest and the grape harvest will continue until planting, and you will eat all the food you want(K) and live in safety in your land.(L)
6 “‘I will grant peace in the land,(M) and you will lie down(N) and no one will make you afraid.(O) I will remove wild beasts(P) from the land, and the sword will not pass through your country. 7 You will pursue your enemies,(Q) and they will fall by the sword before you. 8 Five(R) of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand, and your enemies will fall by the sword before you.(S)
9 “‘I will look on you with favor and make you fruitful and increase your numbers,(T) and I will keep my covenant(U) with you. 10 You will still be eating last year’s harvest when you will have to move it out to make room for the new.(V) 11 I will put my dwelling place[a](W) among you, and I will not abhor you.(X) 12 I will walk(Y) among you and be your God,(Z) and you will be my people.(AA) 13 I am the Lord your God,(AB) who brought you out of Egypt(AC) so that you would no longer be slaves to the Egyptians; I broke the bars of your yoke(AD) and enabled you to walk with heads held high.
Punishment for Disobedience
14 “‘But if you will not listen to me and carry out all these commands,(AE) 15 and if you reject my decrees and abhor my laws(AF) and fail to carry out all my commands and so violate my covenant,(AG) 16 then I will do this to you: I will bring on you sudden terror, wasting diseases and fever(AH) that will destroy your sight and sap your strength.(AI) You will plant seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.(AJ) 17 I will set my face(AK) against you so that you will be defeated(AL) by your enemies;(AM) those who hate you will rule over you,(AN) and you will flee even when no one is pursuing you.(AO)
18 “‘If after all this you will not listen to me,(AP) I will punish(AQ) you for your sins seven times over.(AR) 19 I will break down your stubborn pride(AS) and make the sky above you like iron and the ground beneath you like bronze.(AT) 20 Your strength will be spent in vain,(AU) because your soil will not yield its crops, nor will the trees of your land yield their fruit.(AV)
21 “‘If you remain hostile(AW) toward me and refuse to listen to me, I will multiply your afflictions seven times over,(AX) as your sins deserve. 22 I will send wild animals(AY) against you, and they will rob you of your children, destroy your cattle and make you so few(AZ) in number that your roads will be deserted.(BA)
23 “‘If in spite of these things you do not accept my correction(BB) but continue to be hostile toward me, 24 I myself will be hostile(BC) toward you and will afflict you for your sins seven times over. 25 And I will bring the sword(BD) on you to avenge(BE) the breaking of the covenant. When you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague(BF) among you, and you will be given into enemy hands. 26 When I cut off your supply of bread,(BG) ten women will be able to bake your bread in one oven, and they will dole out the bread by weight. You will eat, but you will not be satisfied.
27 “‘If in spite of this you still do not listen to me(BH) but continue to be hostile toward me, 28 then in my anger(BI) I will be hostile(BJ) toward you, and I myself will punish you for your sins seven times over.(BK) 29 You will eat(BL) the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters.(BM) 30 I will destroy your high places,(BN) cut down your incense altars(BO) and pile your dead bodies[b] on the lifeless forms of your idols,(BP) and I will abhor(BQ) you. 31 I will turn your cities into ruins(BR) and lay waste(BS) your sanctuaries,(BT) and I will take no delight in the pleasing aroma of your offerings.(BU) 32 I myself will lay waste the land,(BV) so that your enemies who live there will be appalled.(BW) 33 I will scatter(BX) you among the nations(BY) and will draw out my sword(BZ) and pursue you. Your land will be laid waste,(CA) and your cities will lie in ruins.(CB) 34 Then the land will enjoy its sabbath years all the time that it lies desolate(CC) and you are in the country of your enemies;(CD) then the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths. 35 All the time that it lies desolate, the land will have the rest(CE) it did not have during the sabbaths you lived in it.
36 “‘As for those of you who are left, I will make their hearts so fearful in the lands of their enemies that the sound of a windblown leaf(CF) will put them to flight.(CG) They will run as though fleeing from the sword, and they will fall, even though no one is pursuing them.(CH) 37 They will stumble over one another(CI) as though fleeing from the sword, even though no one is pursuing them. So you will not be able to stand before your enemies.(CJ) 38 You will perish(CK) among the nations; the land of your enemies will devour you.(CL) 39 Those of you who are left will waste away in the lands of their enemies because of their sins; also because of their ancestors’(CM) sins they will waste away.(CN)
40 “‘But if they will confess(CO) their sins(CP) and the sins of their ancestors(CQ)—their unfaithfulness and their hostility toward me, 41 which made me hostile(CR) toward them so that I sent them into the land of their enemies—then when their uncircumcised hearts(CS) are humbled(CT) and they pay(CU) for their sin, 42 I will remember my covenant with Jacob(CV) and my covenant with Isaac(CW) and my covenant with Abraham,(CX) and I will remember the land. 43 For the land will be deserted(CY) by them and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them. They will pay for their sins because they rejected(CZ) my laws and abhorred my decrees.(DA) 44 Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies,(DB) I will not reject them or abhor(DC) them so as to destroy them completely,(DD) breaking my covenant(DE) with them. I am the Lord their God. 45 But for their sake I will remember(DF) the covenant with their ancestors whom I brought out of Egypt(DG) in the sight of the nations to be their God. I am the Lord.’”
46 These are the decrees, the laws and the regulations that the Lord established at Mount Sinai(DH) between himself and the Israelites through Moses.(DI)
Footnotes
- Leviticus 26:11 Or my tabernacle
- Leviticus 26:30 Or your funeral offerings
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