26:1 |
"'You shall make for yourselves no idols, neither shall you raise up an engraved image or a pillar, neither shall you place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it: for I am Yahweh your God. |
26:2 |
"'You shall keep my Sabbaths, and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am Yahweh. |
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 shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. |
26:5 |
Your threshing shall reach to the vintage, and the vintage shall reach to the sowing time; and you shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely. |
26:6 |
"'I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and no one will make you afraid; and I will remove evil animals out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land. |
26:7 |
You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword. |
26:8 |
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. |
26:9 |
"'I will have respect for you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you. |
26:10 |
You shall eat old store long kept, and you shall move out the old because of the new. |
26:11 |
I will set my tent among you: and my soul won't abhor you. |
26:12 |
I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you will be my people. |
26:13 |
I am Yahweh your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves; and I have broken the bars of your yoke, and made you go upright. |
26:14 |
"'But if you will not listen to me, and will not do all these commandments; |
26:15 |
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; |
26:16 |
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; and you will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it. |
26:17 |
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. |
26:18 |
"'If you in spite of these things will not listen to me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins. |
26:19 |
I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron, and your soil like brass; |
26:20 |
and 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. |
26:21 |
"'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. |
26:22 |
I will send the wild animals among you, which will rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number; and your roads will become desolate. |
26:23 |
"'If by these things you won't be reformed to me, but will walk contrary to me; |
26:24 |
then I will also walk contrary to you; and I will strike you, even I, seven times for your sins. |
26:25 |
I will bring a sword upon you, that will execute the vengeance of the covenant; and you will be gathered together within your cities: and I will send the pestilence among you; and you will be delivered into the hand of the enemy. |
26:26 |
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: and you shall eat, and not be satisfied. |
26:27 |
"'If you in spite of this won't listen to me, but walk contrary to me; |
26:28 |
then I will walk contrary to you in wrath; and I also will chastise you seven times for your sins. |
26:29 |
You will eat the flesh of your sons, and you will eat the flesh of your daughters. |
26:30 |
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. |
26:31 |
I will lay your cities waste, and will bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not take delight in the sweet fragrance of your offerings. |
26:32 |
I will bring the land into desolation; and your enemies that dwell therein will be astonished at it. |
26:33 |
I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you: and your land will be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste. |
26:34 |
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. |
26:35 |
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. |
26:36 |
"'As for those of you who are left, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies: and the sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword; and they will fall when no one pursues. |
26:37 |
They will stumble over one another, as it were before the sword, when no one pursues: and you will have no power to stand before your enemies. |
26:38 |
You will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will eat you up. |
26:39 |
Those of you who are left will pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them. |
26:40 |
"'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, |
26:41 |
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; |
26:42 |
then I will remember my covenant with Jacob; and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham; and I will remember the land. |
26:43 |
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, even because they rejected my ordinances, and their soul abhorred my statutes. |
26:44 |
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 Yahweh their God; |
26:45 |
but I will for their sake remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. I am Yahweh.'" |
26:46 |
These are the statutes, ordinances and laws, which Yahweh made between him and the children of Israel in Mount Sinai by Moses. |