Additional Blessings of Obedience 1 UST Do not make idols because they are useless. Do not set up carved figures or sacred stones to worship{ as if they were God}. Do not put on your property a stone that someone has carved so you can bow down to it. Worship only me, Yahweh your God. BSB BSB: “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.
2 UST Honor my sacred festivals by celebrating them. Honor the place where you worship me. Remember: I am Yahweh. BSB BSB: You must keep My Sabbaths and have reverence for My sanctuary. I am the LORD.
3 UST If you carefully obey all my instructions, BSB BSB: If you follow My statutes and carefully keep My commandments,
4 UST I will send rain for you at the proper times in order that crops will grow on your land and there will be plenty of fruit on your trees. BSB BSB: I will give you rains in their season, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.
5 UST You will continue harvesting and threshing grain until it is time to harvest grapes, and you will continue harvesting grapes until it is time to start planting things for the following year. You will have all the food that you want to eat, and you will live safely in your land. BSB BSB: Your 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.
6 UST Furthermore, I will make you live peacefully in your country. When you go to sleep, you will not be afraid. I will get rid of the dangerous animals from your country. As for raids or wars, there will be none in your country. BSB BSB: And 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.
7 UST In fact, you will chase away your enemies and kill them with your weapons. BSB BSB: You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall by the sword before you.
8 UST Five of you will chase away a hundred of them, a hundred of you will chase away ten thousand of them, and you will kill them with your weapons. BSB BSB: Five 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.
9 UST What’ s more, I will bless you and cause you to have many children. And I will do what I said that I would do in the covenant that I made with you. BSB BSB: I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will establish My covenant with you.
10 UST While you are still eating food from last year’ s harvest, you will have to move some of it to make space to store the food from the current harvest. BSB BSB: You will still be eating the old supply of grain when you need to clear it out to make room for the new.
11 UST I will live with you, and I will never despise you. BSB BSB: And I will make My dwelling place among you, and My soul will not despise you.
12 UST I will always be among you and continue to be your God, and you will continue to be my people. BSB BSB: I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be My people.
13 UST I am Yahweh your God, the one who brought you out of Egypt so that you would no longer be the Egyptians’ slaves. When you were there, it was as though you were animals that were pulling plows for the people of Egypt, but I broke the bars of the yokes that they had put around your necks. I freed you so you could walk with your heads up. BSB BSB: I 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.
Punishments for Disobedience (Leviticus 20:1–9; Deuteronomy 28:15–68)
14 UST But suppose you pay no attention to me; suppose you refuse to obey what I have told you to do. BSB BSB: If, however, you fail to obey Me and to carry out all these commandments,
15 UST Suppose that you reject my decrees and despise my laws and do not obey me, but that instead you reject the covenant that I made with you. BSB BSB: and if you reject My statutes, despise My ordinances, and neglect to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant,
16 UST In that case, these are the things that I will personally do to you: I will suddenly send disasters that will ruin you. You will have diseases that cannot be cured and fevers that will cause you to become blind; these will slowly kill you. It will be useless for you to plant your fields, because your enemies will eat the crops that grow. BSB BSB: then 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.
17 UST I will reject you, so your enemies will conquer you. People who hate you will rule over you, and{ you will be so frightened that} you will run away even if they are not chasing you. BSB BSB: And 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.
18 UST But after all these things happen to you, if you still refuse to obey me, I will continue to punish you again and again for sinning{ against me}. BSB BSB: And if after all this you will not obey Me, I will proceed to punish you sevenfold for your sins.
19 UST I will punish you so much that you will no longer be stubborn or proud. I will not let any rain fall in your land. It will be as though the sky were made of iron and the ground were as hard as bronze. BSB BSB: I will break down your stubborn pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze,
20 UST You will uselessly work very hard to plant seeds, because crops will not grow in the hard soil in your fields, and fruit will not grow on your trees. BSB BSB: and 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.
22 UST I will send wild animals to attack you, and they will kill your little children and destroy your cattle. There will be very few of you who will remain alive, with the result that there will be very few people traveling about on the roads in your country. BSB BSB: I will send wild animals against you to rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and reduce your numbers, until your roads lie desolate.
23 UST When you experience those things that I do to punish you, if you still do not pay attention to me, and if you continue to act against me, BSB BSB: And if in spite of these things you do not accept My discipline, but continue to walk in hostility toward Me,
24 UST I myself will act against you, and I will punish you again and again for sinning against me. BSB BSB: then I will act with hostility toward you, and I will strike you sevenfold for your sins.
25 UST I will send armies to you to punish you for not doing the things that I commanded you to do in the covenant that I made with you. If you try to escape from your enemies by hiding behind your city walls, I will send plagues to you, and I will allow your enemies to capture you. BSB BSB: And 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.
26 UST When I destroy your supplies of food, there will be very little flour with which to make bread. As a result, ten women will be able to bake all their bread in only one oven. When the bread is baked, each woman will divide it among the members of her family, but there will be very little for each one, and when they have eaten all of it, they will still be hungry. BSB BSB: When 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.
27 UST After all those things happen, if you still do not obey me, if you still act against me, BSB BSB: But if in spite of all this you do not obey Me, but continue to walk in hostility toward Me,
28 UST I will be very angry with you, and I will act against you. I myself will punish you again and again for sinning. BSB BSB: then I will walk in fury against you, and I, even I, will punish you sevenfold for your sins.
29 UST You will be so hungry that you will kill your sons and daughters and eat their flesh. BSB BSB: You will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters.
30 UST I will destroy the places on high hills where you have worshiped idols. I will smash the altars where you burn incense to worship your gods. I will cause people to pile your dead bodies on the lifeless figures of your idols. I will detest you. BSB BSB: I 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.
31 UST I will ruin your cities and empty the buildings that you built for worshiping your idols. If you burn offerings on an altar, I will refuse to enjoy their scents. BSB BSB: I will reduce your cities to rubble and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will refuse to smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices.
32 UST I will completely ruin your country. When your enemies capture it, they will be shocked at what happened. BSB BSB: And I will lay waste the land, so that your enemies who dwell in it will be appalled.
33 UST I will enable your enemies to kill you with their swords. I will cause them to scatter the rest of you among other people groups. I will make sure that they ruin your country and destroy your cities. BSB BSB: But 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.
34 UST After that happens, as long as you are living in your enemies’ countries, no one will be in the land and it will finally be able to rest. During this time, the land will enjoy the sabbath rests it should have had. BSB BSB: Then 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.
35 UST During all the time that no one is in your land, it will rest— the rest that you never gave it during the sabbath rest years when you lived there. BSB BSB: As long as it lies desolate, the land will have the rest it did not receive during the Sabbaths when you lived in it.
36 UST As for you people who will remain alive in the countries to which your enemies will have taken you, I will make you very afraid, so when you hear the wind blowing leaves, you will run away. You will run like someone is trying to kill you, and you will fall down even though no one is chasing you. BSB BSB: As 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.
37 UST You will run as if a man with a sword were chasing you, and you will fall down, even though no one is coming behind you. You will stumble over each other trying to flee. You will not be able to stand and fight your enemies. BSB BSB: They 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.
38 UST Many of you will die in your enemies’ countries. BSB BSB: You will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will consume you.
39 UST And those of you who remain alive will slowly die and rot in your enemies’ countries because you and your ancestors all sinned so much. BSB BSB: Those 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.
God Remembers Those Who Repent 40 UST But if your descendants confess that they and their ancestors sinned against me, acted unfaithfully toward me, and were hostile to me— BSB BSB: But 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—
41 UST because of that I became hostile to them and forced them to go to their enemies’ countries— if your descendants humble themselves, stop being very stubborn and admit that they are guilty, BSB BSB: and 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,
42 UST I will keep my promises about the land{ of Canaan} that I made in the covenant that I made{ with your ancestors} Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. BSB BSB: then I will remember My covenant with Jacob and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.
43 UST But before that happens, I will force my people to leave their land, with the result that the land will be able to rest while no one is in it, and while I am punishing the people for rejecting my laws and hating my decrees. BSB BSB: For 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.
44 UST But I will still not reject them or hate them and destroy them completely in their enemies’ countries. I will not cancel the covenant that I made with them because I am still Yahweh their God. BSB BSB: Yet 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.
45 UST I will keep the promises from the covenant that I made with your ancestors when I brought them out of Egypt, something that the people of all nations heard about. I did this so that I, Yahweh, would be your God.” BSB BSB: But 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.”
46 UST Those are the commandments, the decrees, and the laws that Yahweh established on Mount Sinai between himself and the Israelite people by giving them to Moses to tell to them. BSB BSB: These are the statutes, ordinances, and laws that the LORD established between Himself and the Israelites through Moses on Mount Sinai.
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