Promises and Warnings

26 You shall not make gods that are really not gods for yourselves, and you shall not set up an image or a sacred memorial stone for yourselves, and you shall not set up a carved stone relief in your land to bow down to it, for I am the Lord your God. ² You shall observe my Sabbaths and revere my sanctuary. I am the Lord.

³ If you walk according to my regulations and keep my commandments and carry them out, ⁴ I will give you rains in their season, so that the land will yield its produce and the trees in the farmland will yield their fruit. ⁵ Threshing will last until the grape harvest, and the grape harvest will last until the time for sowing. You will eat your food until you are full, and you will live securely in your land.

⁶ I will give peace in the land so that you may lie down without anyone frightening you. I will eliminate ferocious animals from the land, and no sword will pass through your land. ⁷ You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall before you by the sword. ⁸ Five of you will pursue a hundred, and a hundred of you will pursue ten thousand, and your enemies will fall before you by the sword.

⁹ I will look on you with favor, and I will make you fruitful and will multiply you, and I will keep my covenant with you. ¹⁰ You will eat grain from previous harvests, grain long stored, until you remove the old grain to make room for the new. ¹¹ I will place my Dwelling in your midst, and I will not at all detest you. ¹² I will walk about in your midst, and I will be your God, and you will be my people. ¹³ I am the Lord your God, who freed you from the land of Egypt so that you would not be slaves to them. I broke the bars of your yoke so that I could make you walk upright.