Leviticus 26Leviticus26

Berean Standard BibleKing James Version

1. Additional Blessings of Obedience

2. 1BSB“You must not make idols for yourselves or set up a carved image or sacred pillar; you must not place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down to it. For I am the LORD your God.KJVKJV: 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.
3. 2BSBYou must keep My Sabbaths and have reverence for My sanctuary. I am the LORD.KJVKJV: Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.
4. 3BSBIf you follow My statutes and carefully keep My commandments,KJVKJV: If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;
5. 4BSBI will give you rains in their season, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.KJVKJV: 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.
6. 5BSBYour threshing will continue until the grape harvest, and the grape harvest will continue until sowing time; you will have your fill of food to eat and will dwell securely in your land.KJVKJV: 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.
7. 6BSBAnd I will give peace to the land, and you will lie down with nothing to fear. I will rid the land of dangerous animals, and no sword will pass through your land.KJVKJV: 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.
8. 7BSBYou will pursue your enemies, and they will fall by the sword before you.KJVKJV: And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.
9. 8BSBFive of you will pursue a hundred, and a hundred of you will pursue ten thousand, and your enemies will fall by the sword before you.KJVKJV: 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.
10. 9BSBI will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will establish My covenant with you.KJVKJV: For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.
11. 10BSBYou will still be eating the old supply of grain when you need to clear it out to make room for the new.KJVKJV: And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new.
12. 11BSBAnd I will make My dwelling place among you, and My soul will not despise you.KJVKJV: And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you.
13. 12BSBI will walk among you and be your God, and you will be My people.KJVKJV: And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people.
14. 13BSBI am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so that you would no longer be slaves to the Egyptians. I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to walk in uprightness.KJVKJV: 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.

15. Punishments for Disobedience

    (Leviticus 20:1–9; Deuteronomy 28:15–68)

16. 14BSBIf, however, you fail to obey Me and to carry out all these commandments,KJVKJV: But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments;
17. 15BSBand if you reject My statutes, despise My ordinances, and neglect to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant,KJVKJV: 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:
18. 16BSBthen this is what I will do to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting disease, and fever that will destroy your sight and drain your life. You will sow your seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.KJVKJV: 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.
19. 17BSBAnd I will set My face against you, so that you will be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when no one pursues you.KJVKJV: 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.
20. 18BSBAnd if after all this you will not obey Me, I will proceed to punish you sevenfold for your sins.KJVKJV: And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.
21. 19BSBI will break down your stubborn pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze,KJVKJV: And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:
22. 20BSBand your strength will be spent in vain. For your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit.KJVKJV: 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.
23. 21BSBIf you walk in hostility toward Me and refuse to obey Me, I will multiply your plagues seven times, according to your sins.KJVKJV: 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.
24. 22BSBI will send wild animals against you to rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and reduce your numbers, until your roads lie desolate.KJVKJV: 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.
25. 23BSBAnd if in spite of these things you do not accept My discipline, but continue to walk in hostility toward Me,KJVKJV: And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me;
26. 24BSBthen I will act with hostility toward you, and I will strike you sevenfold for your sins.KJVKJV: Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.
27. 25BSBAnd I will bring a sword against you to execute the vengeance of the covenant. Though you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague among you, and you will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.KJVKJV: 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.
28. 26BSBWhen I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.KJVKJV: 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.
29. 27BSBBut if in spite of all this you do not obey Me, but continue to walk in hostility toward Me,KJVKJV: And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me;
30. 28BSBthen I will walk in fury against you, and I, even I, will punish you sevenfold for your sins.KJVKJV: Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.
31. 29BSBYou will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters.KJVKJV: And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.
32. 30BSBI will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your lifeless bodies on the lifeless remains of your idols; and My soul will despise you.KJVKJV: 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.
33. 31BSBI will reduce your cities to rubble and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will refuse to smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices.KJVKJV: And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.
34. 32BSBAnd I will lay waste the land, so that your enemies who dwell in it will be appalled.KJVKJV: And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.
35. 33BSBBut I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you as your land becomes desolate and your cities are laid waste.KJVKJV: 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.
36. 34BSBThen the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths all the days it lies desolate, while you are in the land of your enemies. At that time the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.KJVKJV: 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.
37. 35BSBAs long as it lies desolate, the land will have the rest it did not receive during the Sabbaths when you lived in it.KJVKJV: As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.
38. 36BSBAs for those of you who survive, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, so that even the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to flight. And they will flee as one flees the sword, and fall when no one pursues them.KJVKJV: 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.
39. 37BSBThey will stumble over one another as before the sword, though no one is behind them. So you will not be able to stand against your enemies.KJVKJV: 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.
40. 38BSBYou will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will consume you.KJVKJV: And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.
41. 39BSBThose of you who survive in the lands of your enemies will waste away in their iniquity and will decay in the sins of their fathers.KJVKJV: 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.

42. God Remembers Those Who Repent

43. 40BSBBut if they will confess their iniquity and that of their fathers in the unfaithfulness that they practiced against Me, by which they have also walked in hostility toward Me—KJVKJV: 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;
44. 41BSBand I acted with hostility toward them and brought them into the land of their enemies—and if their uncircumcised hearts will be humbled and they will make amends for their iniquity,KJVKJV: 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:
45. 42BSBthen I will remember My covenant with Jacob and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.KJVKJV: 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.
46. 43BSBFor the land will be abandoned by them, and it will enjoy its Sabbaths by lying desolate without them. And they will pay the penalty for their iniquity, because they rejected My ordinances and abhorred My statutes.KJVKJV: 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.
47. 44BSBYet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject or despise them so as to destroy them and break My covenant with them; for I am the LORD their God.KJVKJV: 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.
48. 45BSBBut for their sake I will remember the covenant with their fathers, 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.”KJVKJV: 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.
49. 46BSBThese are the statutes, ordinances, and laws that the LORD established between Himself and the Israelites through Moses on Mount Sinai.KJVKJV: 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.