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Leviticus 26 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

Blessings of Obedience

Lev 26:1‘You shall not make for yourselves [fn]idols, nor shall you set up for yourselves an image or a sacred pillar, nor shall you place a figured stone in your land to bow down [fn]to it; for I am the LORD your God.
Lev 26:2‘You shall keep My sabbaths and reverence My sanctuary; I am the LORD.
Lev 26:3‘If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments so as to carry them out,
Lev 26:4then I shall give you rains in their season, so that the land will yield its produce and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.
Lev 26:5‘Indeed, your threshing will last for you until grape gathering, and grape gathering will last until sowing time. You will thus eat your [fn]food to the full and live securely in your land.
Lev 26:6‘I shall also grant peace in the land, so that you may lie down with no one making you tremble. I shall also eliminate harmful beasts from the land, and no sword will pass through your land.
Lev 26:7‘But you will chase your enemies and they will fall before you by the sword;
Lev 26:8five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand, and your enemies will fall before you by the sword.
Lev 26:9‘So I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will confirm My covenant with you.
Lev 26:10‘You will eat the old supply and clear out the old because of the new.
Lev 26:11‘Moreover, I will make My [fn]dwelling among you, and My soul will not [fn]reject you.
Lev 26:12‘I will also walk among you and be your God, and you shall be My people.
Lev 26:13‘I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so that you would not be their slaves, and I broke the bars of your yoke and made you walk erect.

Penalties of Disobedience

Lev 26:14‘But if you do not obey Me and do not carry out all these commandments,
Lev 26:15if, instead, you reject My statutes, and if your soul abhors My ordinances so as not to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant,
Lev 26:16I, in turn, will do this to you: I will appoint over you a sudden terror, consumption and fever that will waste away the eyes and cause the soul to pine away; also, you will sow your seed uselessly, for your enemies will eat it up.
Lev 26:17‘I will set My face against you so that you will be struck down before your enemies; and those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when no one is pursuing you.
Lev 26:18‘If also after these things you do not obey Me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.
Lev 26:19‘I will also break down your pride of power; I will also make your sky like iron and your earth like bronze.
Lev 26:20‘Your strength will be spent uselessly, for your land will not yield its produce and the trees of the land will not yield their fruit.
Lev 26:21‘If then, you [fn]act with hostility against Me and are unwilling to obey Me, I will increase the plague on you seven times according to your sins.
Lev 26:22‘I will let loose among you the beasts of the field, which will bereave you of your children and destroy your cattle and reduce your number so that your roads lie deserted.
Lev 26:23‘And if by these things you are not turned to Me, but act with hostility against Me,
Lev 26:24then I will act with hostility against you; and I, even I, will strike you seven times for your sins.
Lev 26:25‘I will also bring upon you a sword which will execute vengeance for the covenant; and when you gather together into your cities, I will send pestilence among you, so that you shall be delivered into enemy hands.
Lev 26:26‘When I break your staff of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven, and they will bring back your bread [fn]in rationed amounts, so that you will eat and not be satisfied.
Lev 26:27‘Yet if in spite of this you do not obey Me, but act with hostility against Me,
Lev 26:28then I will act with wrathful hostility against you, and I, even I, will punish you seven times for your sins.
Lev 26:29‘Further, you will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters you will eat.
Lev 26:30‘I then will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and heap your [fn]remains on the [fn]remains of your idols, for My soul shall abhor you.
Lev 26:31‘I will [fn]lay waste your cities as well and will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your soothing aromas.
Lev 26:32‘I will make the land desolate so that your enemies who settle in it will be appalled over it.
Lev 26:33‘You, however, I will scatter among the nations and will draw out a sword after you, as your land becomes desolate and your cities become waste.
Lev 26:34‘Then the land will [fn]enjoy its sabbaths all the days of the desolation, while you are in your enemies’ land; then the land will rest and [fn]enjoy its sabbaths.
Lev 26:35‘All the days of its desolation it will observe the rest which it did not observe on your sabbaths, while you were living on it.
Lev 26:36‘As for those of you who may be left, I will also bring weakness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. And the sound of a driven leaf will chase them, and even when no one is pursuing they will flee [fn]as though from the sword, and they will fall.
Lev 26:37‘They will therefore stumble over each other as if running from the sword, although no one is pursuing; and you will have no strength [fn]to stand up before your enemies.
Lev 26:38‘But you will perish among the nations, and your enemies’ land will consume you.
Lev 26:39‘So those of you who may be left will rot away because of their iniquity in the lands of your enemies; and also because of the iniquities of their forefathers they will rot away with them.
Lev 26:40‘If they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their forefathers, in their unfaithfulness which they committed against Me, and also in their acting with hostility against Me—
Lev 26:41I also was acting with hostility against them, to bring them into the land of their enemies—or if their uncircumcised heart becomes humbled so that they then make amends for their iniquity,
Lev 26:42then I will remember My covenant with Jacob, and I will remember also My covenant with Isaac, and My covenant with Abraham as well, and I will remember the land.
Lev 26:43‘For the land will be abandoned by them, and will make up for its sabbaths while it is made desolate without them. They, meanwhile, will be making amends for their iniquity, [fn]because they rejected My ordinances and their soul abhorred My statutes.
Lev 26:44‘Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, nor will I so abhor them as to destroy them, breaking My covenant with them; for I am the LORD their God.
Lev 26:45‘But I will remember for them the covenant with 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.’”
Lev 26:46These are the statutes and ordinances and laws which the LORD established between Himself and the sons of Israel [fn]through Moses at Mount Sinai.
NASB95 Footnotes
Or, graven images
Literally: over
Literally: bread
Or, tabernacle
Literally: abhor
Literally: walk, and so throughout the chapter
Literally: by weight
Literally: corpses
Literally: give desolation to
Literally: satisfy
Literally: the flight of the sword
Literally: you will stand
Literally: because and by the cause
Literally: by the hand of
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