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Today's Bible Reading :: Leviticus 26 - 27 (ESV)

Leviticus 26Listen to the passage

Leviticus 27Listen to the passage

Leviticus 26

Blessings for Obedience

(Deu 7:12–24; 28:1–68 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:1 - “You shall not make idols for yourselves or erect an image or pillar, and you shall not set up a figured stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the LORD your God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:2 - You shall keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:3 - “If you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:5 - Your threshing shall last to the time of the grape harvest, and the grape harvest shall last to the time for sowing. And you shall eat your bread to the full and dwell in your land securely.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:6 - I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid. And I will remove harmful beasts from the land, and the sword shall not go through your land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:7 - You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:9

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:9 - I will turn to you and make you fruitful and multiply you and will confirm my covenant with you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:10 - You shall eat old store long kept, and you shall clear out the old to make way for the new.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:11 - I will make my dwelling[fn] among you, and my soul shall not abhor you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:12 - And I will walk among you and will be your God, and you shall be my people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:13 - I am the LORD your God, who brought you 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 walk erect.

Punishment for Disobedience

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:14 - “But if you will not listen to me and will not do all these commandments,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:15 - if you spurn my statutes, and if your soul abhors my rules, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:16

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:16 - then I will do this to you: I will visit you with panic, with wasting disease and fever that consume the eyes and make the heart ache. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:17

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:17 - I will set my face against you, and you shall be struck down before your enemies. Those who hate you shall rule over you, and you shall flee when none pursues you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:18

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:18 - And if in spite of this you will not listen to me, then I will discipline you again sevenfold for your sins,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:19

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:19 - and I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:20 - And your strength shall be spent in vain, for your land shall not yield its increase, and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:21 - “Then if you walk contrary to me and will not listen to me, I will continue striking you, sevenfold for your sins.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:22 - And I will let loose the wild beasts against you, which shall bereave you of your children and destroy your livestock and make you few in number, so that your roads shall be deserted.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:23 - “And if by this discipline you are not turned to me but walk contrary to me,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:24 - then I also will walk contrary to you, and I myself will strike you sevenfold for your sins.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:25 - And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall execute vengeance for the covenant. And if you gather within your cities, I will send pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:26

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:26 - When I break your supply[fn] of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in a single oven and shall dole out your bread again by weight, and you shall eat and not be satisfied.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:27 - “But if in spite of this you will not listen to me, but walk contrary to me,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:28 - then I will walk contrary to you in fury, and I myself will discipline you sevenfold for your sins.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:29

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:29 - You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:30

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:30 - And I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars and cast your dead bodies upon the dead bodies of your idols, and my soul will abhor you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:31 - And I will lay your cities waste and will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your pleasing aromas.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:32

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:32 - And I myself will devastate the land, so that your enemies who settle in it shall be appalled at it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:33 - And I will scatter you among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword after you, and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:34 - “Then the land shall enjoy[fn] its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate, while you are in your enemies’ land; then the land shall rest, and enjoy its Sabbaths.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:35 - As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, the rest that it did not have on your Sabbaths when you were dwelling in it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:36 - And as for those of you who are left, I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf shall put them to flight, and they shall flee as one flees from the sword, and they shall fall when none pursues.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:37 - They shall stumble over one another, as if to escape a sword, though none pursues. And you shall have no power to stand before your enemies.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:38

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:38 - And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:39

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:39 - And those of you who are left shall rot away in your enemies’ lands because of their iniquity, and also because of the iniquities of their fathers they shall rot away like them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:40

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:40 - “But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers in their treachery that they committed against me, and also in walking contrary to me,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:41

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:41 - so that I walked contrary to them and brought them into the land of their enemies—if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled and they make amends for their iniquity,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:42

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:42 - then I will remember my covenant with Jacob, and I will remember my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:43

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:43 - But the land shall be abandoned by them and enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them, and they shall make amends for their iniquity, because they spurned my rules and their soul abhorred my statutes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:44

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:44 - Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not spurn them, neither will I abhor them so as to destroy them utterly and break my covenant with them, for I am the LORD their God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:45

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:45 - But I will for their sake remember the covenant with their forefathers, 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.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:46

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:46 - These are the statutes and rules and laws that the LORD made between himself and the people of Israel through Moses on Mount Sinai.
ESV Footnotes
Hebrew tabernacle
Hebrew staff
Or pay for; twice in this verse; also verse 43

Leviticus 27

Laws About Vows

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:1 - The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:2 - “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, If anyone makes a special vow to the LORD involving the valuation of persons,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:3 - then the valuation of a male from twenty years old up to sixty years old shall be fifty shekels[fn] of silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:4 - If the person is a female, the valuation shall be thirty shekels.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:5 - If the person is from five years old up to twenty years old, the valuation shall be for a male twenty shekels, and for a female ten shekels.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:6 - If the person is from a month old up to five years old, the valuation shall be for a male five shekels of silver, and for a female the valuation shall be three shekels of silver.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:7 - And if the person is sixty years old or over, then the valuation for a male shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:8 - And if someone is too poor to pay the valuation, then he shall be made to stand before the priest, and the priest shall value him; the priest shall value him according to what the vower can afford.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:9 - “If the vow[fn] is an animal that may be offered as an offering to the LORD, all of it that he gives to the LORD is holy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:10 - He shall not exchange it or make a substitute for it, good for bad, or bad for good; and if he does in fact substitute one animal for another, then both it and the substitute shall be holy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:11 - And if it is any unclean animal that may not be offered as an offering to the LORD, then he shall stand the animal before the priest,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:12 - and the priest shall value it as either good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall be.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:13 - But if he wishes to redeem it, he shall add a fifth to the valuation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:14 - “When a man dedicates his house as a holy gift to the LORD, the priest shall value it as either good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall stand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:15 - And if the donor wishes to redeem his house, he shall add a fifth to the valuation price, and it shall be his.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:16 - “If a man dedicates to the LORD part of the land that is his possession, then the valuation shall be in proportion to its seed. A homer[fn] of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:17 - If he dedicates his field from the year of jubilee, the valuation shall stand,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:18 - but if he dedicates his field after the jubilee, then the priest shall calculate the price according to the years that remain until the year of jubilee, and a deduction shall be made from the valuation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:19 - And if he who dedicates the field wishes to redeem it, then he shall add a fifth to its valuation price, and it shall remain his.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:20 - But if he does not wish to redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed anymore.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:21 - But the field, when it is released in the jubilee, shall be a holy gift to the LORD, like a field that has been devoted. The priest shall be in possession of it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:22 - If he dedicates to the LORD a field that he has bought, which is not a part of his possession,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:23

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:23 - then the priest shall calculate the amount of the valuation for it up to the year of jubilee, and the man shall give the valuation on that day as a holy gift to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:24 - In the year of jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, to whom the land belongs as a possession.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:25 - Every valuation shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs[fn] shall make a shekel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:26 - “But a firstborn of animals, which as a firstborn belongs to the LORD, no man may dedicate; whether ox or sheep, it is the LORD’s.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:27 - And if it is an unclean animal, then he shall buy it back at the valuation, and add a fifth to it; or, if it is not redeemed, it shall be sold at the valuation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:28 - “But no devoted thing that a man devotes to the LORD, of anything that he has, whether man or beast, or of his inherited field, shall be sold or redeemed; every devoted thing is most holy to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:29 - No one devoted, who is to be devoted for destruction[fn] from mankind, shall be ransomed; he shall surely be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:30 - “Every tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is the LORD’s; it is holy to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:31 - If a man wishes to redeem some of his tithe, he shall add a fifth to it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:32 - And every tithe of herds and flocks, every tenth animal of all that pass under the herdsman’s staff, shall be holy to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:33 - One shall not differentiate between good or bad, neither shall he make a substitute for it; and if he does substitute for it, then both it and the substitute shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:34 - These are the commandments that the LORD commanded Moses for the people of Israel on Mount Sinai.
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ESV Footnotes
A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams
Hebrew it
A homer was about 6 bushels or 220 liters
A gerah was about 1/50 ounce or 0.6 gram
That is, set apart (devoted) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction)
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