1 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.
2 Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am
the LORD.
3 If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do
them;
4 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.
5 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.
6 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.
7 And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before
you by the sword.
8 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.
9 For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and
multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.
10 And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of
the new.
11 And I set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor
you.
12 And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall
be my people.
13 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.
14 But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these
commandments;
15 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:
16 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.
17 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.
18 And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I
will punish you seven times more for your sins.
19 And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your
heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:
20 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.
21 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.
22 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.
23 And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will
walk contrary unto me;
24 Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you
yet seven times for your sins.
25 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.
26 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.
27 And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk
contrary unto me;
28 Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even
I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.
29 And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your
daughters shall ye eat.
30 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.
31 And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries
unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet
odours.
32 And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies
which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.
33 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.
34 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.
35 As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not
rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.
36 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.
37 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.
38 And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your
enemies shall eat you up.
39 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.
40 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;
41 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:
42 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.
43 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.
44 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.
45 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.
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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