26:1 “‘Do not make idols or set up an image or a sacred stone for yourselves, and do not place a carved stone in your land to bow down before it. I am the LORD your God.
26:2 “‘Observe my Sabbaths and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am the LORD.
26:3 “‘If you follow my decrees and are careful to obey my commands,
26:4 I will send you rain in its season, and the ground will yield its crops and the trees of the field their fruit.
26:5 Your threshing will continue until grape harvest and the grape harvest will continue until planting, and you will eat all the food you want and live in safety in your land.
26:6 “‘I will grant peace in the land, and you will lie down and no one will make you afraid. I will remove savage beasts from the land, and the sword will not pass through your country.
26:7 You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall by the sword before you.
26:8 Five 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.
26:9 “‘I will look on you with favor and make you fruitful and increase your numbers, and I will keep my covenant with you.
26:10 You will still be eating last year’s harvest when you will have to move it out to make room for the new.
26:11 I will put my dwelling place among you, and I will not abhor you.
26:12 I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be my people.
26:13 I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt so that you would no longer be slaves to the Egyptians; I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to walk with heads held high.
26:14 “‘But if you will not listen to me and carry out all these commands,
26:15 and if you reject my decrees and abhor my laws and fail to carry out all my commands and so violate my covenant,
26:16 then I will do this to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting diseases and fever that will destroy your sight and drain away your life. You will plant seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.
26:17 I will set my face against you so that you will be defeated by your enemies; those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee even when no one is pursuing you.
26:18 “‘If after all this you will not listen to me, I will punish you for your sins seven times over.
26:19 I will break down your stubborn pride and make the sky above you like iron and the ground beneath you like bronze.
26:20 Your strength will be spent in vain, because your soil will not yield its crops, nor will the trees of the land yield their fruit.
26:21 “‘If you remain hostile toward me and refuse to listen to me, I will multiply your afflictions seven times over, as your sins deserve.
26:22 I will send wild animals against you, and they will rob you of your children, destroy your cattle and make you so few in number that your roads will be deserted.
26:23 “‘If in spite of these things you do not accept my correction but continue to be hostile toward me,
26:24 I myself will be hostile toward you and will afflict you for your sins seven times over.
26:25 And I will bring the sword upon you to avenge the breaking of the covenant. When you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague among you, and you will be given into enemy hands.
26:26 When I cut off your supply of bread, 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.
26:27 “‘If in spite of this you still do not listen to me but continue to be hostile toward me,
26:28 then in my anger I will be hostile toward you, and I myself will punish you for your sins seven times over.
26:29 You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters.
26:30 I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars and pile your dead bodies on the lifeless forms of your idols, and I will abhor you.
26:31 I will turn your cities into ruins and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will take no delight in the pleasing aroma of your offerings.
26:32 I will lay waste the land, so that your enemies who live there will be appalled.
26:33 I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out my sword and pursue you. Your land will be laid waste, and your cities will lie in ruins.
26:34 Then the land will enjoy its sabbath years all the time that it lies desolate and you are in the country of your enemies; then the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths.
26:35 All the time that it lies desolate, the land will have the rest it did not have during the sabbaths you lived in it.
26:36 “‘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 will put them to flight. They will run as though fleeing from the sword, and they will fall, even though no one is pursuing them.
26:37 They will stumble over one another as though fleeing from the sword, even though no one is pursuing them. So you will not be able to stand before your enemies.
26:38 You will perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will devour you.
26:39 Those of you who are left will waste away in the lands of their enemies because of their sins; also because of their fathers’ sins they will waste away.
26:40 “‘But if they will confess their sins and the sins of their fathers–their treachery against me and their hostility toward me,
26:41 which made me hostile toward them so that I sent them into the land of their enemies–then when their uncircumcised hearts are humbled and they pay for their sin,
26:42 I will remember my covenant with Jacob and my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.
26:43 For the land will be deserted by them and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them. They will pay for their sins because they rejected my laws and abhorred my decrees.
26:44 Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them or abhor them so as to destroy them completely, breaking my covenant with them. I am the LORD their God.
26:45 But for their sake I will remember the covenant with their ancestors whom I brought out of Egypt in the sight of the nations to be their God. I am the LORD.’”
26:46 These are the decrees, the laws and the regulations that the LORD established on Mount Sinai between himself and the Israelites through Moses.
26:1 You shall not make for yourselves idols, nor shall you raise up for yourselves a graven image or a pillar, nor shall you place a stone figure in your land to bow down to it; for I am Jehovah your God.
26:2 You shall keep My Sabbaths and reverence My sanctuary; I am Jehovah.
26:3 If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments and do them,
26:4 Then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will yield their fruit.
26:5 Indeed your threshing will overtake the vintage, and the vintage will overtake the sowing time. Thus you will eat your bread unto satisfaction and dwell securely in your land.
26:6 And I will give you peace in the land, so that you will lie down and no one will make you afraid; and I will cause wild beasts to cease out of the land, and no sword will pass through your land.
26:7 And you will chase your enemies, and they will fall by the sword before you.
26:8 And five 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.
26:9 And I will turn My face toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will establish My covenant with you.
26:10 And you will eat the old supply long stored and will have to clear out the old because of the new.
26:11 And I will set My tabernacle among you; and My soul will not abhor you.
26:12 And I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be My people.
26:13 I am Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so that you should not be their slaves; and I have broken the bars of your yoke and made you walk upright.
26:14 But if you will not listen to Me and will not do all these commandments,
26:15 And if you reject My statutes, and if your soul abhors My ordinances so that you will not do all My commandments, so as to break My covenant;
26:16 I also will do this to you: I will appoint sudden terror over you, even consumption and fever, that will cause the eyes to fail and make the soul to pine away; and you will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.
26:17 And I will set My face against you, and you will be struck down before your enemies; and those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when no one pursues you.
26:18 And if after these things you will not listen to Me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins.
26:19 And I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron and your land like bronze,
26:20 And your strength will be spent in vain, for your land will not yield its produce, nor will the trees of the land yield their fruit.
26:21 And if you walk contrary to Me and will not listen to Me, I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.
26:22 And I will send wild animals among you, which will bereave you of your children and destroy your cattle and make you few in number, so that your roads will be deserted.
26:23 And if by these things you will not be corrected by Me, but walk contrary to Me,
26:24 Then I also will walk contrary to you; and I will strike you, I Myself, seven times for your sins.
26:25 And I will bring a sword upon you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant. And when you gather together within your cities, I will send pestilence among you, and you will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
26:26 When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven; and they will return your bread by weight, and you will eat and not be satisfied.
26:27 And if in spite of this you will not listen to Me, but walk contrary to Me,
26:28 Then I will walk contrary to you in wrath; and I will chastise you, I Myself, seven times for your sins.
26:29 And you will eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters you will eat.
26:30 And I will destroy your high places and cut down your altars to the sun and heap up your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols, and My soul will abhor you.
26:31 And I will make your cities a waste and will make your holy places desolate, and I will not smell the savor of your satisfying fragrances.
26:32 And I will make the land desolate, so that your enemies who dwell in it will be astonished at it.
26:33 You however I will scatter among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword after you; and your land will become a desolation, and your cities will become a waste.
26:34 Then the land will enjoy its Sabbaths during all the days of desolation while you are in your enemies’ land; then the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.
26:35 During all the days of desolation it will have the rest, which it did not have on your Sabbaths when you were dwelling upon it.
26:36 And as for those who remain among you, I will send faintness into their heart in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight; and they will flee as one flees from the sword; and they will fall though no one pursues.
26:37 And they will stumble over one another, as if fleeing before the sword, though no one pursues; and you will not be able to stand before your enemies.
26:38 And you will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will consume you.
26:39 And those who are remaining among you will rot away because of their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also because of the iniquities of their fathers they will rot away with them.
26:40 But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, in their unfaithfulness which they committed against Me, and also that they walked contrary to Me,
26:41 So that I also walked contrary to them and brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and then they accept the punishment of their iniquity;
26:42 Then I will remember My covenant with Jacob, and I will remember also My covenant with Isaac and also My covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.
26:43 For the land will be abandoned by them and will enjoy its Sabbaths while it is desolate without them. And they will accept the punishment of their iniquity because, even because, they rejected My ordinances, and their soul abhorred My statutes.
26:44 And yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, nor will I abhor them so as to destroy them utterly and to break My covenant with them; for I am Jehovah their God.
26:45 But for their sakes I will remember 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 Jehovah.
26:46 These are the statutes and ordinances and laws which Jehovah made between Himself and the children of Israel at Mount Sinai through Moses.