Leviticus 26:15
New International Version
and if you reject my decrees and abhor my laws and fail to carry out all my commands and so violate my covenant,

New Living Translation
and if you break my covenant by rejecting my decrees, treating my regulations with contempt, and refusing to obey my commands,

English Standard Version
if you spurn my statutes, and if your soul abhors my rules, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant,

Berean Standard Bible
and if you reject My statutes, despise My ordinances, and neglect to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant,

King James Bible
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:

New King James Version
and if you despise My statutes, or if your soul abhors My judgments, so that you do not perform all My commandments, but break My covenant,

New American Standard Bible
if, instead, you reject My statutes, and if your soul loathes My ordinances so as not to carry out all My commandments, but rather to break My covenant,

NASB 1995
if, 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,

NASB 1977
if, 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,

Legacy Standard Bible
if, instead, you reject My statutes, and if your soul loathes My judgments so as not to do all My commandments and so break My covenant,

Amplified Bible
if, instead, you reject My statutes, and if your soul rejects My ordinances, so that you will not [obediently] do all My commandments, and in this way break My covenant,

Christian Standard Bible
if you reject my statutes and despise my ordinances, and do not observe all my commands—and break my covenant,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
if you reject My statutes and despise My ordinances, and do not observe all My commands—and break My covenant,

American Standard Version
and if ye shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhor mine ordinances, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant;

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
If you will reject my Law and your souls will loathe my judgments and you will not do all of my commands and you shall nullify my covenant:

Brenton Septuagint Translation
but disobey them, and your soul should loathe my judgments, so that ye should not keep all my commands, so as to break my covenant,

Douay-Rheims Bible
If you despise my laws, and contemn my judgments so as not to do those things which are appointed by me, and to make void my covenant:

English Revised Version
and if ye shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant;

GOD'S WORD® Translation
if you reject my laws and look at my rules with disgust, if you reject my promise by disobeying my commands,

Good News Translation
If you refuse to obey my laws and commands and break the covenant I have made with you,

International Standard Version
and if you refuse my statutes, loathe my ordinances, and fail to carry out all of my commands, thereby breaching my covenant,

JPS Tanakh 1917
and if ye shall reject My statutes, and if your soul abhor Mine ordinances, so that ye will not do all My commandments, but break My covenant;

Literal Standard Version
and if you kick at My statutes, and if your soul loathes My judgments, so as not to do all My commands—to your breaking My covenant—

Majority Standard Bible
and if you reject My statutes, despise My ordinances, and neglect to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant,

New American Bible
if you reject my statutes and loathe my decrees, refusing to obey all my commandments and breaking my covenant,

NET Bible
if you reject my statutes and abhor my regulations so that you do not keep all my commandments and you break my covenant--

New Revised Standard Version
if you spurn my statutes, and abhor my ordinances, so that you will not observe all my commandments, and you break my covenant,

New Heart English Bible
and if you shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhors my ordinances, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant;

Webster's Bible Translation
And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul shall abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:

World English Bible
and if you shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhors my ordinances, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant,

Young's Literal Translation
and if at My statutes ye kick, and if My judgments your soul loathe, so as not to do all My commands -- to your breaking My covenant --

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Context
Punishments for Disobedience
14If, however, you fail to obey Me and to carry out all these commandments, 15and if you reject My statutes, despise My ordinances, and neglect to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant, 16then 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.…

Cross References
Leviticus 26:9
I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will establish My covenant with you.

Leviticus 26:11
And I will make My dwelling place among you, and My soul will not despise you.

1 Samuel 12:15
But if you disobey the LORD and rebel against His command, then the hand of the LORD will be against you as it was against your fathers.

2 Kings 17:15
They rejected His statutes and the covenant He had made with their fathers, as well as the decrees He had given them. They pursued worthless idols and themselves became worthless, going after the surrounding nations that the LORD had commanded them not to imitate.

Malachi 2:2
If you do not listen, and if you do not take it to heart to honor My name," says the LORD of Hosts, "I will send a curse among you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have already begun to curse them, because you are not taking it to heart.


Treasury of Scripture

And if you shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that you will not do all my commandments, but that you break my covenant:

despise

Leviticus 26:43
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.

Numbers 15:31
Because he hath despised the word of the LORD, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him.

2 Samuel 12:9,10
Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon…

soul

Psalm 50:17
Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.

Proverbs 5:12
And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

Romans 8:7
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

break

Genesis 17:14
And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.

Exodus 19:5
Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:

Exodus 24:7
And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient.

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3. A blessing to those who keep the commandments
14. A curse to those who break them
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(15) And if ye shall despise my statutes.--From passive indifference to the Divine statutes mentioned in the preceding verse, their falling away is sure to follow. Hence what was at first mere listlessness now develops itself into a contemptuous education of God's ordinances.

Or if your soul abhor my judgments.--Better, and if your soul, &c, as the picture of their Apostasy goes on developing itself.

But that ye break my covenant.--Better, that ye break, &c, without the "but," which is not in the original, and obscures the sense of the passage, since it is the fact of their abhorrence of God's law which breaks the Divine covenant with them. (See Genesis 17:14.) The sense is more correctly given by rendering this clause "Thus breaking my covenant," or "Thereby breaking my covenant."



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
and if
וְאִם־ (wə·’im-)
Conjunctive waw | Conjunction
Strong's 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not

you reject
תִּמְאָ֔סוּ (tim·’ā·sū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 3988: To spurn, to disappear

My statutes,
בְּחֻקֹּתַ֣י (bə·ḥuq·qō·ṯay)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's 2708: Something prescribed, an enactment, statute

despise
תִּגְעַ֣ל (tiḡ·‘al)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 1602: To detest, to reject

My ordinances,
מִשְׁפָּטַ֖י (miš·pā·ṭay)
Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's 4941: A verdict, a sentence, formal decree, divine law, penalty, justice, privilege, style

and neglect
לְבִלְתִּ֤י (lə·ḇil·tî)
Preposition-l
Strong's 1115: A failure of, not, except, without, unless, besides, because not, until

to carry out
עֲשׂוֹת֙ (‘ă·śō·wṯ)
Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 6213: To do, make

all
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

My commandments,
מִצְוֺתַ֔י (miṣ·wō·ṯay)
Noun - feminine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's 4687: Commandment

and so break
לְהַפְרְכֶ֖ם (lə·hap̄·rə·ḵem)
Preposition-l | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's 6565: To break up, to violate, frustrate

My covenant,
בְּרִיתִֽי׃ (bə·rî·ṯî)
Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 1285: A covenant


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