The Third Book of Moses: Leviticus

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- Chapter 26 -

“You must make no idols, neither are you to raise up a carved figure or a sacred stone pillar, and you must not place any carved stone image in your land to which you bow down, for I am Yahweh your God.

You must keep my Sabbaths and honor my sanctuary. I am Yahweh.

If you walk in my laws and keep my commandments and obey them,

then I will give you rain in its season; the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will yield their fruit.

Your threshing will continue to the time of the grape harvest, and the grape harvest will extend to the planting season. You will eat your bread to the full and live safely where you make your home in the land.

I will give peace in the land; you will lie down with nothing to make you afraid. I will take the dangerous animals away from the land, and the sword will not pass through your land.

You will chase your enemies, and they will fall before you by the sword.

Five of you will chase away a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand; your enemies will fall before you by the sword.

I will look at you with favor and make you fruitful and multiply you; I will establish my covenant with you.

You will eat food stored a long time. You will have to bring out the stored food because you will need the room for the new harvest.

I will place my tabernacle among you, and I will not detest you.

I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be my people.

I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, so that you would not be their slaves. I have broken the bars of your yoke and made you to walk standing up straight.

Punishments for Disobedience

(Leviticus 20:1–9; Deuteronomy 28:15–68)

But if you will not listen to me, and will not obey all these commandments,

and if you reject my decrees and detest my laws, so that you will not obey all my commandments, but break my covenant-

-if you do these things, then I will do this to you: I will inflict terror on you, diseases and fever that will destroy the eyes and will drain away your life. You will plant your seeds for nothing, because your enemies will eat their produce.

I will set my face against you, and you will be overpowered by your enemies. Men who hate you will rule over you, and you will run away, even when no one is chasing you.

If you do not listen to my commands, then I will punish you seven times as severely for your sins.

I will break your pride in your power. I will make the sky over you like iron and your land like bronze.

Your strength will be used up for nothing, because your land will not produce its harvest, and your trees in the land will not produce their fruit.

If you walk against me and will not listen to me, I will bring seven times more blows on you, in proportion to your sins.

I will send dangerous animals against you, which will steal your children, destroy your cattle, and make you few in number. So your roads will become deserted.

If in spite of these things you still do not accept my correction and you continue to walk in opposition to me,

then I will also walk in opposition to you, and I myself will punish you seven times because of your sins.

I will bring a sword on you that will execute vengeance for breaking the covenant. You will be gathered together inside your cities, and I will send a disease among you there, and then you will be delivered into the hand of your enemy.

When I cut off your food supply, ten women will be able to bake your bread in one oven, and they will distribute your bread by weight. You will eat but not be satisfied.

If you do not listen to me despite these things, but continue to walk against me,

then I will walk against you in anger, and I will punish you even seven more times as much for your sins.

You will eat the flesh of your sons; you will eat the flesh of your daughters.

I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and throw your corpses on the corpses of your idols, and I myself will abhor you.

I will turn your cities into ruins and destroy your sanctuaries. I will not be pleased with the aroma of your offerings.

I will devastate the land. Your enemies who will live there will be shocked at the devastation.

I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out my sword and follow you. Your land will be abandoned, and your cities will be ruined.

Then the land will enjoy its Sabbaths for as long as it lies abandoned and you are in your enemies’ lands. During that time, the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.

As long as it lies abandoned, it will have rest, which will be the rest that it did not have with your Sabbaths, when you lived in it.

As for those of you who are left in your enemies’ lands, I will send fear into your hearts so that even the sound of a leaf blowing in the wind will startle you, and you will flee as though you were fleeing from the sword. You will fall, even when no one is chasing you.

You will stumble over each other as though you were running from the sword, even though no one is chasing you. You will have no power to stand before your enemies.

You will perish among the nations, and your enemies’ land will itself devour you.

Those who are left among you will waste away in their sins, there in your enemies’ lands, and because of their fathers’ sins they will waste away as well.

God Remembers Those Who Repent

Yet if they confess their sins and their fathers’ sin, and their treason by which they were unfaithful to me, and also their walking against me-

which caused me to turn against them and I brought them into the land of their enemies-if their uncircumcised hearts become humbled, and if they accept the punishment for their sins,

then will I call to mind my covenant with Jacob, my covenant with Isaac, and my covenant with Abraham; also, I will call the land to mind.

The land will be abandoned by them, so it will be pleased with its Sabbaths while it lies abandoned without them. They will have to pay the penalty for their sins because they themselves rejected my decrees and detested my laws.

Yet despite all this, when they are in their enemies’ land, I will not reject them, neither will I detest them so as to completely destroy them and do away with my covenant with them, for I am Yahweh their God.

But for their sakes I will call to mind the covenant with their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, so that I might be their God. I am Yahweh.”

These are the commandments, decrees, and laws that Yahweh made between himself and the people of Israel at Mount Sinai through Moses.

“‘You shall make for yourselves no idols, and you shall not raise up a carved image or a pillar, and you shall not place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it; for I am the LORD your God.

“‘You shall keep my Sabbaths, and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am the LORD.

“‘If you walk in my statutes and keep my commandments, and do them,

then 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.

Your threshing shall continue until the vintage, and the vintage shall continue until the sowing time. You shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.

“‘I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and no one will make you afraid. I will remove evil animals out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.

You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.

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.

“‘I will have respect for you, make you fruitful, multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you.

You shall eat old supplies long kept, and you shall move out the old because of the new.

I will set my tent among you, and my soul won’t abhor you.

I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you will be my people.

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 bars of your yoke, and made you walk upright.

Punishments for Disobedience

(Leviticus 20:1–9; Deuteronomy 28:15–68)

“‘But if you will not listen to me, and will not do all these commandments,

and if you shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhors my ordinances, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant,

I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away. You will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.

I will set my face against you, and you will be struck before your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you; and you will flee when no one pursues you.

“‘If you in spite of these things will not listen to me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins.

I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron, and your soil like bronze.

Your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won’t yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruit.

“‘If you walk contrary to me, and won’t listen to me, then I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to your sins.

I will send the wild animals among you, which will rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number. Your roads will become desolate.

“‘If by these things you won’t be turned back to me, but will walk contrary to me,

then I will also walk contrary to you; and I will strike you, even I, seven times for your sins.

I will bring a sword upon you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant. You will be gathered together within your cities, and I will send the pestilence among you. You will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight. You shall eat, and not be satisfied.

“‘If you in spite of this won’t listen to me, but walk contrary to me,

then I will walk contrary to you in wrath. I will also chastise you seven times for your sins.

You will eat the flesh of your sons, and you will eat the flesh of your daughters.

I will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you.

I will lay your cities waste, and will bring your sanctuaries to desolation. I will not take delight in the sweet fragrance of your offerings.

I will bring the land into desolation, and your enemies who dwell in it will be astonished at it.

I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you. Your land will be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.

Then the land will enjoy its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies’ land. Even then the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.

As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it didn’t have in your Sabbaths when you lived on it.

“‘As for those of you who are left, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword. They will fall when no one pursues.

They will stumble over one another, as it were before the sword, when no one pursues. You will have no power to stand before your enemies.

You will perish among the nations. The land of your enemies will eat you up.

Those of you who are left will pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers they shall pine away with them.

God Remembers Those Who Repent

“‘If they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me; and also that because they walked contrary to me,

I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity,

then I will remember my covenant with Jacob, my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham; and I will remember the land.

The land also will be left by them, and will enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them; and they will accept the punishment of their iniquity because they rejected my ordinances, and their soul abhorred my statutes.

Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly and to break my covenant with them; for I am the LORD their God.

But I will for their sake remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. I am the LORD.’”

These are the statutes, ordinances, and laws, which the LORD made between him and the children of Israel in Mount Sinai by Moses.