“ 1 Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a
standing image, neither shall ye set up [any] image
of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I [am] the LORD your
God. 2 Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary:
I [am] the LORD. 3 If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my
commandments, and do them; 4 Then I will give you rain in due season,
and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field
shall yield their fruit. 5 And your threshing shall reach unto
the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye
shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.
6 And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none
shall make [you] afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of the
land, neither shall the sword go through your land. 7 And ye shall
chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.
8 And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you
shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before
you by the sword. 9 For I will have respect unto you, and make you
fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.
10 And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of
the new. 11 And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul
shall not abhor you. 12 And I will walk among you, and will be your
God, and ye shall be my people. 13 I [am] the LORD your God,
which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not
be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and
made you go upright.”
“14 But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these
commandments; 15 And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if
your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my
commandments, [but] that ye break my covenant: 16 I also will do this
unto
you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning
ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and
ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. 17 And
I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your
enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee
when none pursueth you. 18 And if ye will not yet for all this hearken
unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins. 19
And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as
iron, and your earth as brass: 20 And your strength shall be spent in
vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the
trees of the land yield their fruits. 21 And if ye walk contrary unto
me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues
upon you according to your sins. 22 I will also send wild beasts
among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your
cattle,
and make you few in number; and your [high] ways shall be desolate. 23
And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk
contrary unto me; 24 Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and
will punish you yet seven times for your sins. 25 And I will bring a
sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of [my] covenant: and
when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the
pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the
enemy. 26 [And] when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten
women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver [you]
your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.
27 And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary
unto me; 28 Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I,
even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins. 29 And ye shall
eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye
eat.
30 And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and
cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall
abhor you. 31 And I will make your cities waste, and bring your
sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your
sweet odours.
32 And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which
dwell therein shall be astonished at it. 33 And I will scatter you
among the
heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be
desolate, and your cities waste. 34 Then shall the land enjoy her
sabbaths,
as long as it lieth desolate, and ye [be] in your enemies’ land;
[even] then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths. 35 As long as
it
lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your
sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it. 36 And upon them that are left [alive]
of you I will
send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and
the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as
fleeing
from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth. 37 And they
shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none
pursueth:
and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies. 38 And ye
shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat
you up.
39 And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in
your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall
they pine away with them.”
“40 If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their
fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that
also they have walked contrary unto me; 41 And [that] I also have
walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their
enemies;
if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of
the punishment of their iniquity: 42 Then will I remember my covenant
with
Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with
Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land. 43 The land also
shall be
left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate
without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity:
because,
even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul
abhorred my statutes. 44 And yet for all that, when they be in the land
of their enemies,
I will not cast them away, 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 sakes remember the covenant of their
ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of
the heathen,
that I might be their God: I [am] the LORD. 46 These [are] the
statutes and judgments and laws, which the LORD made between him and the
children of
Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.” (Leviticus 26:1-46 AV)