Chapter 26 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.
Ye shall keep my sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary.
I am the Lord.
If ye walk in my statutes and keep my commandments and do them, 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, 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.
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, and ye shall chase your enemies,
and they shall fall before you by the sword.
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.
For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful and multiply you,
and establish my covenant with you.
And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new.
And I will set my tabernacle among you, and my soul shall not abhor you.
And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people.
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.
But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments,
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, 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 the heart.
And ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
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.
And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you
seven times more for your sins.
And I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your heaven as iron,
and your earth as brass.
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.
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.
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 highways shall be
desolate.
And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto
me, then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times
for your sins.
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.
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.
And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me,
then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury, and I, even I, will chastise you
seven times for your sins.
And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye
eat.
And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your
carcasses upon the carcasses of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.
And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto
desolation.
And I will not smell the savor of your sweet odors, and I will bring the land
into desolation, and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.
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.
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.
As long as it lieth desolate, it shall rest, because it did not rest in your
sabbaths when ye dwelt upon it.
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.
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.
And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you
up.
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.
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, 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,
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.
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 despise my judgments, and because their
soul abhorred my statutes.
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.
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.
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.