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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.