1 “ ‘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.
2 “ ‘You shall keep my Sabbaths, and have
reverence for my sanctuary. I am the
LORD.
3 “ ‘If you walk in my statutes and keep
my commandments, and do them,
4 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.
5 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.
6 “ ‘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.
7 You shall chase your enemies, and they
shall fall before you by the sword.
8 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.
9 “ ‘I will have respect for you, make you
fruitful, multiply you, and will establish
my covenant with you.
10 You shall eat old supplies long kept,
and you shall move out the old because of
the new.
11 I will set my tent among you, and my
soul won’t abhor you.
12 I will walk among you, and will be
your God, and you will be my people.
13 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.
14 “ ‘But if you will not listen to me, and
will not do all these commandments,
15 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,
16 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.
17 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.
18 “ ‘If you in spite of these things will not
listen to me, then I will chastise you seven
times more for your sins.
19 I will break the pride of your power,
and I will make your sky like iron, and your
soil like bronze.
20 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.
21 “ ‘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.
22 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.
23 “ ‘If by these things you won’t be
turned back to me, but will walk contrary
to me,
24 then I will also walk contrary to you;
and I will strike you, even I, seven times for
your sins.
25 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.
26 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.
27 “ ‘If you in spite of this won’t listen to
me, but walk contrary to me,
28 then I will walk contrary to you in
wrath. I will also chastise you seven times
for your sins.
29 You will eat the flesh of your sons, and
you will eat the flesh of your daughters.
30 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.
31 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.
32 I will bring the land into desolation,
and your enemies who dwell in it will be
astonished at it.
33 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.
34 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.
35 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.
36 “ ‘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.
37 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.
38 You will perish among the nations.
The land of your enemies will eat you up.
39 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.
40 “ ‘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,
41 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,
42 then I will remember my covenant
with Jacob, my covenant with Isaac, and
also my covenant with Abraham; and I will
remember the land.
43 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.
44 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.
45 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.’ ”
46 These are the statutes, ordinances,
and laws, which the LORD made between
him and the children of Israel in Mount
Sinai by Moses.
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