Leviticus 26 - LSB Bible Online

Leviticus 26

He Walks Among Those Who Walk in His Statutes

‘You shall not make for yourselves ¹^aidols, nor shall you set up for yourselves ^ba graven image or ^ca sacred pillar, nor shall you ²place a ^dcarved stone in your land to bow down ³to it; for I am Yahweh your God. 2 ^aYou shall keep My sabbaths and fear My sanctuary; I am Yahweh. 3 ^aIf you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments so as to do them, 4 then ^aI shall give you rains in their season, so that the land will give forth its produce and the trees of the field will give forth their fruit. 5 ^aIndeed, your threshing will last for you until grape gathering, and grape gathering will last until sowing time. You will thus eat your ¹food to the full and ^blive securely in your land. 6 ^aI shall also give you peace in the land so that ^byou may lie down, with no one making you tremble. ^cI shall also eliminate wild beasts from the land, and ^dno sword will pass through your land. 7 But you will pursue your enemies, and they will fall before you by the sword; 8 ^aand five of you will pursue one hundred, and one hundred of you will pursue ten thousand, and your enemies will fall before you by the sword. 9 So I will turn toward you and ^amake you fruitful and multiply you, and I will ^bconfirm My covenant with you. 10 ^aAnd you will eat the old supply and clear out the old because of the new. 11 ^aMoreover, I will ¹make My ²dwelling among you, and My soul will not loathe you. 12 ^aI will also walk among you and be your God, and you shall be My people. 13 ^aI am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so that you would not be their slaves, and ^bI broke the bars of your yoke and made you walk erect.

Reject His Statutes and He Will Strike You

14 ‘^aBut if you do not obey Me and do not do all these commandments, 15 if, instead, you ^areject My statutes, and if your soul loathes My judgments so as not to do all My commandments and so ^bbreak My covenant, 16 I, in turn, will do this to you: I will appoint over you a ^asudden terror, consumption and fever that will waste away the eyes and cause the ^bsoul to pine away; also, ^cyou will sow your seed uselessly, for your enemies will eat it up. 17 And I will ¹set My face against you so that you will be ²defeated before your enemies; and ^athose who hate you will have dominion over you, and ^byou will flee when no one is pursuing you. 18 If also after these things you do not obey Me, then I will discipline you ^aseven times more for your sins. 19 I will also ^abreak down your pride of strength; I will also give your sky over to become like iron and your earth like bronze. 20 ^aAnd your power will be spent uselessly, for your land will not give forth its produce and the trees of the land will not give forth their fruit.
21 ‘If then, you ^awalk in hostility against Me and are unwilling to obey Me, I will increase the plague on you ^bseven times according to your sins. 22 ^aAnd I will send out among you the beasts of the field, which will bereave you of your children and cut down your cattle and reduce your number so that ^byour roads lie desolate.
23 ‘^aAnd if by these things you do not accept My discipline, but walk in hostility against Me, 24 then I will ^awalk in hostility against you; and I, even I, will strike you ^bseven times for your sins. 25 I will also bring upon you a sword which will execute ^avengeance for the covenant; and when you gather together into your cities, I will send ^bpestilence among you so that you shall be given over into enemy hands. 26 ^aWhen I break your staff of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven, and they will bring back your bread by rationed weight so that you will ^beat and not become full.
27 ‘Yet, if in spite of this you do not obey Me, but walk in hostility against Me, 28 then ^aI will walk in wrathful hostility against you, and I, even I, will discipline you seven times for your sins. 29 Further, ^ayou will eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters you will eat. 30 I then ^awill destroy your high places and cut down your ^bincense altars and give your corpses to lie on the corpses of your idols, for My soul shall loathe you. 31 And I will give your cities over as a ^awaste and will make your ^bsanctuaries desolate, and I will not ^csmell your soothing aromas. 32 And I will make ^athe land desolate, ^bso that your enemies who inhabit it will themselves feel desolate because of it. 33 You, however, I ^awill scatter among the nations and will draw out a sword after you, as your land becomes desolate and your cities become waste.
34 ‘^aThen the land will make up for its sabbaths all the days of the desolation, and you will be in your enemies’ land; then the land will rest and make up for its sabbaths. 35 All the days of its desolation it will observe the rest which it did not observe on your sabbaths, while you were living on it. 36 As for those of you who may remain, I will also bring ^aweakness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. And the sound of a driven leaf will pursue them, and even when no one is pursuing they will flee ¹as though from the sword, and they will fall. 37 ^aThey will therefore stumble over each other as if running from the sword, although no one is pursuing; and you will have no strength ¹to stand up before your enemies. 38 But ^ayou will perish among the nations, and your enemies’ land will consume you. 39 ^aSo those of you who may remain will rot away in their iniquity in the lands of your enemies; and also in the iniquities of their fathers they will rot away with them.
40 ‘^aIf they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, in their unfaithfulness which they committed against Me, and also how they walked in hostility against Me— 41 I also was walking in hostility against them, to bring them into the land of their enemies—^aor if their uncircumcised heart becomes humbled so that ^bthey then make up for their iniquity, 42 then I will remember ^aMy covenant with Jacob, and I will remember also ^bMy covenant with Isaac and ^cMy covenant with Abraham as well, and I will remember the land. 43 ^aFor the land will be forsaken by them and will make up for its sabbaths while it is made desolate without them. They, meanwhile, will be making up for their iniquity ¹because they rejected My judgments and their ^bsoul loathed My statutes. 44 Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, nor will I so ^aloathe them as ^bto bring an end to them, ^cbreaking My covenant with them; for I am Yahweh their God. 45 But I will remember for them the ^acovenant with their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that ^bI might be their God. I am Yahweh.’”
46 ^aThese are the statutes and judgments and laws which Yahweh has given to be between Himself and the sons of Israel by the hand of Moses at Mount Sinai.

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