 1 Do not make idols and do not set up graven images or a memorial pillar for yourselves. Do not set up any image of stone in your land in order to bow down to it. For I am the Lord your God. 2 You shall keep my Sabbaths and revere 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 rain in due season and the land will yield her increase and the trees of the field will yield their fruit. 5 Your threshing will reach to the vintage and the vintage will reach to the sowing time and you will eat your bread to the full and live in your land safely. 6 I will give peace in the land and you will lie down and no one will make you afraid. I will cause evil beasts to cease out of the land and no sword will go through your land. 7 You will chase your enemies and they will fall before you by the sword. 8 Five of you will chase 100 and 100 of you will put 10,000 to flight and your enemies will fall by the sword in front of you. 9 For I will have respect to you and make you fruitful and multiply you and establish my covenant with you. 10 You shall eat of the old provision and clear away the old because of the new. 11 I will set my tabernacle among you and my soul will not abhor you. 12 I will walk among you and be your God and you will be my people. 13 I am the Lord your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, from being their bondmen. And I have broken the bonds of your yoke, and made you go upright. 14 But if you will not listen to me, and will not do all these commandments, 15 and if you despise my statutes or if your soul hates my judgments so that you will not do all my commandments, so that you break my covenant; 16 I will also do this to you. I will appoint terror over you, consumption, and burning fever consuming the eyes and causing sorrow of heart. You will sow your seed in vain for your enemies will eat it. 17 I will turn+ against you and you will be slain before your enemies. Those who hate you will reign over you. You will flee when no one pursues you. 18 If you will not yet listen to me for all this, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins. 19 I will break your pride and make your heaven like iron and your earth like bronze. 20 Your strength shall be spent in vain. For your land shall not yield its increase, neither shall the trees of the field yield their fruits. 21 If you walk contrary to me and will not listen to me, I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to your sins. 22 I will send wild beasts among you who will deprive+ you. I will destroy your cattle and make you few and your highways will be deserted. 23 If you will not be reformed by me by these things, but will still walk contrary to me, 24 then I will walk contrary to you and will punish you seven times more for your sins. 25 I will bring a sword on you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant. When you are gathered inside your cities, I will send the plague among you and you will be delivered into the hand of the enemy. 26 When I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven and they will deliver your bread again by weight and you will eat and not be satisfied. 27 If you will not for all of this listen to me, but will walk contrary to me, 28 then I will walk contrary to you also in fury. And I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins. 29 You shall eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters shall you eat. 30 I will destroy your high places and cut down your images, and throw your carcasses on the carcasses of your idols, and my soul shall despise you. 31 I will make your cities waste and cause your sanctuaries to be deserted. And I will not smell the savor of your sweet odors. 32 I will turn the land into wasteland. Your enemies who live in it will be astonished at it. 33 I will scatter you among the heathen and will draw out a sword after you and your land and your cities will be waste. 34 Then shall the land enjoy its Sabbaths, as long as it lies waste, and you are in your enemies' land. Then shall the land rest and enjoy its Sabbaths. 35 As long as it lies waste it shall rest, because it did not rest in your Sabbaths when you lived on it. 36 On 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 chase them and they will flee as if fleeing from a sword and they will fall when no one pursues. 37 They will fall on one another as if it were before a sword when no one pursues and you will have no strength+ to stand before your enemies. 38 You will perish among the heathen and the land of your enemies will eat you up. 39 Those who are left of you shall putrefy in their willful sin in your enemies' lands. They will putrefy with them in the perversities of their fathers. 40 If they confess their willfulness and the willfulness of their fathers, with their sin that they sinned against me and that also they have walked contrary to me, 41 I also have walked contrary to them and have brought them into the land of their enemies. If then their uncircumcised hearts are humbled, and they then pay for their iniquity, 42 then I will remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham I will remember. And I will remember the land. 43 The land will be forsaken by them and will enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies waste without them. They will accept the punishment of their iniquities. Because they despised my judgments and their soul hated my statutes. 44 Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I hate them, to destroy them utterly and to break my covenant with them. For I am the Lord their God. 45 But for their sakes, I will remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, so 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.
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