| New King James Version | Berean Study Bible |
| 1‘You shall not make idols for yourselves; neither a carved image nor a sacred pillar shall you rear up for yourselves; nor shall you set up an engraved stone in your land, to bow down to it; for I am the LORD your God. | 1“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. |
| 2You shall keep My Sabbaths and reverence My sanctuary: I am the LORD. | 2You must keep My Sabbaths and have reverence for My sanctuary. I am the LORD. |
| 3‘If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments, and perform them, | 3If you follow My statutes and carefully keep My commandments, |
| 4then I will give you rain in its season, the land shall yield its produce, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. | 4I will give you rains in their season, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their fruit. |
| 5Your threshing shall last till the time of vintage, and the vintage shall last till the time of sowing; you shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely. | 5Your 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. |
| 6I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and none will make you afraid; I will rid the land of evil beasts, and the sword will not go through your land. | 6And 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. |
| 7You will chase your enemies, and they shall fall by the sword before you. | 7You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall by the sword before you. |
| 8Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight; your enemies shall fall by the sword before you. | 8Five 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‘For I will look on you favorably and make you fruitful, multiply you and confirm My covenant with you. | 9I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will establish My covenant with you. |
| 10You shall eat the old harvest, and clear out the old because of the new. | 10You will still be eating the old supply of grain when you need to clear it out to make room for the new. |
| 11I will set My tabernacle among you, and My soul shall not abhor you. | 11And I will make My dwelling place among you, and My soul will not despise you. |
| 12I will walk among you and be your God, and you shall be My people. | 12I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be My people. |
| 13I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves; I have broken the bands of your yoke and made you walk upright. | 13I 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. |
| 14‘But if you do not obey Me, and do not observe all these commandments, | 14If, however, you fail to obey Me and to carry out all these commandments, |
| 15and 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, | 15and if you reject My statutes, despise My ordinances, and neglect to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant, |
| 16I also will do this to you: I will even appoint terror over you, wasting disease and fever which shall consume the eyes and cause sorrow of heart. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. | 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. |
| 17I will set My face against you, and you shall be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you shall reign over you, and you shall flee when no one pursues you. | 17And 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‘And after all this, if you do not obey Me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins. | 18And if after all this you will not obey Me, I will proceed to punish you sevenfold for your sins. |
| 19I will break the pride of your power; I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze. | 19I will break down your stubborn pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze, |
| 20And your strength shall be spent in vain; for your land shall not yield its produce, nor shall the trees of the land yield their fruit. | 20and 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. |
| 21‘Then, if you walk contrary to Me, and are not willing to obey Me, I will bring on you seven times more plagues, according to your sins. | 21If you walk in hostility toward Me and refuse to obey Me, I will multiply your plagues seven times, according to your sins. |
| 22I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number; and your highways shall be desolate. | 22I 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‘And if by these things you are not reformed by Me, but walk contrary to Me, | 23And if in spite of these things you do not accept My discipline, but continue to walk in hostility toward Me, |
| 24then I also will walk contrary to you, and I will punish you yet seven times for your sins. | 24then I will act with hostility toward you, and I will strike you sevenfold for your sins. |
| 25And I will bring a sword against you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant; when you are gathered together within your cities I will send pestilence among you; and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy. | 25And 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. |
| 26When I have cut off your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall bring back your bread by weight, and you shall eat and not be satisfied. | 26When 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‘And after all this, if you do not obey Me, but walk contrary to Me, | 27But if in spite of all this you do not obey Me, but continue to walk in hostility toward Me, |
| 28then I also will walk contrary to you in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins. | 28then I will walk in fury against you, and I, even I, will punish you sevenfold for your sins. |
| 29You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters. | 29You will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters. |
| 30I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and cast your carcasses on the lifeless forms of your idols; and My soul shall abhor you. | 30I 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. |
| 31I will lay your cities waste and bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not smell the fragrance of your sweet aromas. | 31I will reduce your cities to rubble and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will refuse to smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices. |
| 32I will bring the land to desolation, and your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished at it. | 32And I will lay waste the land, so that your enemies who dwell in it will be appalled. |
| 33I will scatter you among the nations and draw out a sword after you; your land shall be desolate and your cities waste. | 33But 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. |
| 34Then the land shall enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies’ land; then the land shall rest and enjoy its sabbaths. | 34Then 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. |
| 35As long as it lies desolate it shall rest— for the time it did not rest on your sabbaths when you dwelt in it. | 35As long as it lies desolate, the land will have the rest it did not receive during the Sabbaths when you lived in it. |
| 36‘And as for those of you who are left, I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; the sound of a shaken leaf shall cause them to flee; they shall flee as though fleeing from a sword, and they shall fall when no one pursues. | 36As 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. |
| 37They shall stumble over one another, as it were before a sword, when no one pursues; and you shall have no power to stand before your enemies. | 37They 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. |
| 38You shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up. | 38You will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will consume you. |
| 39And those of you who are left shall waste away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; also in their fathers’ iniquities, which are with them, they shall waste away. | 39Those 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. |
| 40‘But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, with their unfaithfulness in which they were unfaithful to Me, and that they also have walked contrary to Me, | 40But 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— |
| 41and that I also have walked contrary to them and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if their uncircumcised hearts are humbled, and they accept their guilt— | 41and 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, |
| 42then I will remember My covenant with Jacob, and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham I will remember; I will remember the land. | 42then I will remember My covenant with Jacob and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land. |
| 43The land also shall be left empty by them, and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them; they will accept their guilt, because they despised My judgments and because their soul abhorred My statutes. | 43For 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. |
| 44Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, nor shall I abhor them, to utterly destroy them and break My covenant with them; for I am the LORD their God. | 44Yet 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. |
| 45But for their sake I will remember the covenant of their ancestors, 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.’ ” | 45But 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.” |
| 46These are the statutes and judgments and laws which the LORD made between Himself and the children of Israel on Mount Sinai by the hand of Moses. | 46These are the statutes, ordinances, and laws that the LORD established between Himself and the Israelites through Moses on Mount Sinai. |
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