Leviticus 26
1 Do not make images of false gods, or put up an image cut in stone or a pillar or any pictured stone in your land, to give worship to it; for I am the Lord your God.
2 Keep my Sabbaths and give honour to my holy place: I am the Lord.
3 If you are guided by my rules, and keep my laws and do them,
4 Then I will give you rain at the right time, and the land will give her increase and the trees of the field will give their fruit;
5 And the crushing of the grain will overtake the cutting of the grapes, and the cutting of the grapes will overtake the planting of the seed, and there will be bread in full measure, and you will be living in your land safely.
6 And I will give you peace in the land, and you will take your rest and no one will give you cause for fear; and I will put an end to all evil beasts in the land, and no sword of war will go through your land.
7 And you will put to flight those who are against you, and they will be put to death by your swords.
8 Then five of you will put to flight a hundred, and a hundred of you will put to flight ten thousand, and all who are against you will be put to death by your swords.
9 And I will have pleasure in you and make you fertile and greater in number; and I will keep my agreement with you.
10 And old stores long kept will be your food, and you will take out the old because of the new;
11 And I will put my holy House among you, and my soul will not be turned away from you in disgust.
12 And I will be present among you and will be your God and you will be my people.
13 I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt so that you might not be servants to them; by me the cords of your yoke were broken and I made you go upright.
14 But if you do not give ear to me, and do not keep all these my laws;
15 And if you go against my rules and if you have hate in your souls for my decisions and you do not do all my orders, but go against my agreement;
16 This will I do to you: I will put fear in your hearts, even wasting disease and burning pain, drying up the eyes and making the soul feeble, and you will get no profit from your seed, for your haters will take it for food.
17 And my face will be turned from you, and you will be broken before those who are against you, and your haters will become your rulers, and you will go in flight when no man comes after you.
18 And if, even after these things, you will not give ear to me, then I will send you punishment seven times more for your sins.
19 And the pride of your strength will be broken, and I will make your heaven as iron and your earth as brass;
20 And your strength will be used up without profit; for your land will not give her increase and the trees of the field will not give their fruit.
21 And if you still go against me and will not give ear to me, I will put seven times more punishments on you because of your sins.
22 I will let loose the beasts of the field among you, and they will take away your children and send destruction on your cattle, so that your numbers will become small and your roads become waste.
23 And if by these things you will not be turned to me, but still go against me;
24 Then I will go against you, and I will give you punishment, I myself, seven times for all your sins.
25 And I will send a sword on you to give effect to the punishment of my agreement; and when you come together into your towns I will send disease among you and you will be given up into the hands of your haters.
26 When I take away your bread of life, ten women will be cooking bread in one oven, and your bread will be measured out by weight; you will have food but never enough.
27 And if, after all this, you do not give ear to me, but go against me still,
28 Then my wrath will be burning against you, and I will give you punishment, I myself, seven times for your sins.
29 Then you will take the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters for food;
30 And I will send destruction on your high places, overturning your perfume altars, and will put your dead bodies on your broken images, and my soul will be turned from you in disgust.
31 And I will make your towns waste and send destruction on your holy places; I will take no pleasure in the smell of your sweet perfumes;
32 And I will make your land a waste, a wonder to your haters living in it.
33 And I will send you out in all directions among the nations, and my sword will be uncovered against you, and your land will be without any living thing, and your towns will be made waste.
34 Then will the land take pleasure in its Sabbaths while it is waste and you are living in the land of your haters; then will the land have rest.
35 All the days while it is waste will the land have rest, such rest as it never had in your Sabbaths, when you were living in it.
36 And as for the rest of you, I will make their hearts feeble in the land of their haters, and the sound of a leaf moved by the wind will send them in flight, and they will go in flight as from the sword, falling down when no one comes after them;
37 Falling on one another, as before the sword, when no one comes after them; you will give way before your haters.
38 And death will overtake you among strange nations, and the land of your haters will be your destruction.
39 And those of you who are still living will be wasting away in their sins in the land of your haters; in the sins of their fathers they will be wasting away.
40 And they will have grief for their sins and for the sins of their fathers, when their hearts were untrue to me, and they went against me;
41 So that I went against them and sent them away into the land of their haters: if then the pride of their hearts is broken and they take the punishment of their sins,
42 Then I will keep in mind the agreement which I made with Jacob and with Isaac and with Abraham, and I will keep in mind the land.
43 And the land, while she is without them, will keep her Sabbaths; and they will undergo the punishment of their sins, because they were turned away from my decisions and in their souls was hate for my laws.
44 But for all that, when they are in the land of their haters I will not let them go, or be turned away from them, or give them up completely; my agreement with them will not be broken, for I am the Lord their God.
45 And because of them I will keep in mind the agreement which I made with their fathers, whom I took out of the land of Egypt before the eyes of the nations, to be their God: I am the Lord.
46 These are the rules, decisions, and laws, which the Lord made between himself and the children of Israel in Mount Sinai, by the hand of Moses.
Cross-references
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- 1Lev 19:4, Exo 23:24, Num 33:52, Deu 27:15, Exo 20:4–5, Rev 13:14–15, 1Co 10:19–20, Deu 16:21–22
- 2Lev 19:30
- 3Deu 28:1–14, Isa 1:19, Deu 11:13–15, Isa 48:18–19, Psa 81:12–16, Rom 2:7–10, Mat 7:24–25, Jdg 2:1–2
- 4Zec 8:12, Psa 67:6, Isa 30:23, Job 5:10, Jol 2:23–24, Deu 28:12, Deu 11:14, Ezk 36:30
- 5Amo 9:13, Jol 2:26, Lev 25:18–19, Jol 2:19, Deu 11:15, Ezk 34:25–28, Psa 91:1–14, Pro 1:33
- 6Isa 35:9, Zep 3:13, Psa 147:14, Jer 30:10, Hos 2:18, Psa 29:11, Hag 2:9, Ezk 34:25
- 8Jos 23:10, Deu 28:7, Deu 32:30, Num 14:9, 1Ch 11:20, Jdg 7:19–21, 1Sa 14:6–16, 1Ch 11:11
- 9Gen 17:6–7, Psa 107:38, Neh 9:23, Ezk 16:62, Isa 55:3, Gen 28:3, Psa 138:6–7, Deu 28:11
- 10Lev 25:22, 2Ki 19:29, Luk 12:17
- 11Exo 25:8, Rev 21:3, Exo 29:45, Psa 132:13–14, Eph 2:22, Psa 106:40, Psa 76:2, Jos 22:19
- 122Co 6:16, Jer 30:22, Jer 7:23, Exo 6:7, Heb 11:16, Deu 23:14, Jol 2:27, Zec 13:9
- 13Ezk 34:27, Lev 25:38, Exo 20:2, Psa 116:16, 1Co 6:19–20, Jer 2:20, Psa 81:6–10, Lev 25:55
- 14Deu 28:15–68, Lam 2:17, Lev 26:18, Jer 17:27, Mal 2:2, Heb 12:25, Act 3:23, Lam 1:18
- 152Ki 17:15, Deu 31:16, Isa 24:5, Zec 7:11–13, Jer 11:10, Ezk 16:59, Num 15:31, Exo 24:7
- 16Job 31:8, Jer 5:17, Mic 6:15, 1Sa 2:33, Hag 1:6, Deu 28:51, Deu 28:21–22, Deu 28:32–35
- 17Lev 17:10, Psa 53:5, Lev 26:36–37, Deu 28:25, Pro 28:1, Psa 106:41–42, 1Sa 31:1, Jer 19:7
- 18Lev 26:21, Lev 26:28, 1Sa 2:5, Lev 26:24, Dan 3:19, Psa 119:164, Pro 24:16
- 19Deu 28:23, 1Ki 17:1, Isa 25:11, Jer 14:1–6, Dan 4:37, Ezk 30:6, Luk 4:25, Jer 13:9
- 20Psa 127:1, Deu 11:17, Isa 49:4, Hab 2:13, Lev 26:4, Hag 2:16, Job 31:40, Gal 4:11
- 21Lev 26:18, Lev 26:27
- 22Ezk 14:15, Deu 32:24, Zec 7:14, Jdg 5:6, 2Ch 15:5, Lam 1:4, Ezk 5:17, Isa 33:8
- 23Jer 5:3, Jer 2:30, Amo 4:6–12, Lev 26:21, Ezk 24:13–14, Isa 1:16–20
- 24Psa 18:26, 2Sa 22:27, Isa 63:10, Job 9:4
- 25Ezk 5:17, Num 14:12, Deu 28:21, Ezk 6:3, Jer 24:10, Ezk 20:37, Ezk 14:17, Ezk 33:2
- 26Mic 6:14, Psa 105:16, Isa 3:1, Ezk 5:16, Ezk 14:13, Hag 1:6, Ezk 4:16, Isa 9:20
- 27Lev 26:24, Lev 26:21
- 28Isa 59:18, Ezk 5:13, Jer 21:5, Ezk 5:15, Ezk 8:18, Isa 66:15, Isa 63:3, Nam 1:6
- 29Ezk 5:10, Deu 28:53–57, Mat 24:19, Lam 4:10, Lam 2:20, Jer 19:9, 2Ki 6:28–29, Luk 23:29
- 302Ki 23:20, Ezk 6:3–6, Isa 27:9, Ezk 6:13, 2Ch 34:3–7, Lev 26:11, 2Ch 23:17, Lev 26:15
- 31Neh 2:3, Isa 1:11–14, Gen 8:21, Heb 10:26, Psa 74:3–8, Jer 4:7, 2Ki 25:4–10, Lam 2:7
- 32Jer 9:11, Jer 25:11, Jer 19:8, Jer 18:16, 1Ki 9:8, Ezk 5:15, Deu 28:37, Jer 25:18
- 33Zec 7:14, Ezk 20:23, Deu 4:27, Deu 28:64–66, Ezk 22:15, Psa 44:11, Ezk 12:14–16, Jer 9:16
- 342Ch 36:21, Lev 25:2–4, Lev 26:43, Lev 25:10
- 35Isa 24:5–6, Rom 8:22
- 36Ezk 21:7, Isa 30:17, Lev 26:17, Jos 2:9–11, Ezk 21:12, Jos 5:1, 1Sa 17:24, Ezk 21:15
- 37Jdg 2:14, Jos 7:12–13, Jer 37:10, Jdg 7:22, Isa 10:4, Num 14:42, 1Sa 14:15–16
- 38Jer 42:22, Deu 28:48, Deu 4:26–27, Jer 42:17–18, Deu 28:68, Jer 44:12–14, Isa 27:13, Jer 44:27–28
- 39Ezk 4:17, Ezk 33:10, Ezk 24:23, Deu 28:65, Mat 23:35–36, Exo 20:5, Ezk 6:9, Ezk 36:31
- 40Pro 28:13, Neh 9:2–5, 1Jn 1:8–10, Num 5:7, Hos 5:15–6:2, Deu 30:1–3, 1Ki 8:33–36, Lev 26:21
- 41Act 7:51, Ezk 44:7, 2Ch 12:6–7, Jer 9:25–26, 1Ki 21:29, Jer 4:4, 2Ch 32:26, Col 2:11
- 42Exo 6:5, Ezk 16:60, Exo 2:24, Psa 106:45, Psa 136:23, Ezk 36:1–15, Gen 9:16, Jol 2:18
- 43Lev 26:15, Rom 8:7, Lev 26:34–35, Lev 26:41, Heb 12:5–11, 2Ch 33:12, 2Ki 17:7–17, Zec 11:8
- 44Rom 11:2, Neh 9:31, 2Ki 13:23, Deu 4:29–31, Psa 94:14, Psa 89:33, Jer 33:20–21, Rom 11:26
- 45Lev 25:38, Ezk 20:9, Lev 22:33, Ezk 20:22, Psa 98:2–3, Rom 11:28–29, Ezk 20:14, Exo 20:2
- 46Lev 27:34, Deu 12:1, Deu 6:1, Deu 13:4, Lev 25:1, Lev 8:36, Jhn 1:17, Num 4:37
Topics in this chapter
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Afflictions and Adversities, Ague, Animals, Anthropomorphisms, Backsliders, Blessing, Brass, Bread, Cannibalism, Captivity, Chastisement, Children, Church, Consumption, Contingencies, Courage, Covenant, Cowardice, Disease, Disobedience to God, Famine, Fellowship, Fever, Gifts From God, God, Harvest, High Places, Idol, Idolatry, Impenitence, Israel, Judgments, Law, Nation, Obedience, Oven, Panic, Peace, Penitent, Pestilence, Picture, Plague, Prayer, Pride, Prophecy, Punishment, Quotations and Allusions, Rain, Repentance, Reverence, Reward, Righteous, Sabbath, Sabbatic Year, Sanctuary, Seven, Sin, Sinai, Ten, War, Wicked (People), Word of God, Yoke