| New King James Version | English Standard Version |
| 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 shall not make idols for yourselves or erect an image or pillar, and you shall not set up a figured 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 shall keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD. |
| 3‘If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments, and perform them, | 3“If you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them, |
| 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. | 4then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield 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 shall last to the time of the grape harvest, and the grape harvest shall last to the time for sowing. And you shall eat your bread to the full and dwell in your land securely. |
| 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. | 6I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid. And I will remove harmful beasts from the land, and the sword shall not go through your land. |
| 7You will chase your enemies, and they shall fall by the sword before you. | 7You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword. |
| 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 shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand, and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword. |
| 9‘For I will look on you favorably and make you fruitful, multiply you and confirm My covenant with you. | 9I will turn to you and make you fruitful and multiply you and will confirm my covenant with you. |
| 10You shall eat the old harvest, and clear out the old because of the new. | 10You shall eat old store long kept, and you shall clear out the old to make way for the new. |
| 11I will set My tabernacle among you, and My soul shall not abhor you. | 11I will make my dwelling among you, and my soul shall not abhor you. |
| 12I will walk among you and be your God, and you shall be My people. | 12And I will walk among you and will be your God, and you shall 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, that you should not be their slaves. And I have broken the bars of your yoke and made you walk erect. |
| 14‘But if you do not obey Me, and do not observe all these commandments, | 14“But if you will not listen to me and will not do 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, | 15if you spurn my statutes, and if your soul abhors my rules, so that you will not do all my commandments, but 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 I will do this to you: I will visit you with panic, with wasting disease and fever that consume the eyes and make the heart ache. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall 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. | 17I will set my face against you, and you shall be struck down before your enemies. Those who hate you shall rule over you, and you shall flee when none 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 in spite of this you will not listen to me, then I will discipline you again sevenfold for your sins, |
| 19I will break the pride of your power; I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze. | 19and I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your heavens like iron and your earth 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 shall be spent in vain, for your land shall not yield its increase, and the trees of the land shall not yield 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. | 21“Then if you walk contrary to me and will not listen to me, I will continue striking you, sevenfold for 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. | 22And I will let loose the wild beasts against you, which shall bereave you of your children and destroy your livestock and make you few in number, so that your roads shall be deserted. |
| 23‘And if by these things you are not reformed by Me, but walk contrary to Me, | 23“And if by this discipline you are not turned to me but walk contrary to me, |
| 24then I also will walk contrary to you, and I will punish you yet seven times for your sins. | 24then I also will walk contrary to you, and I myself 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 upon you, that shall execute vengeance for the covenant. And if you gather within your cities, I will send pestilence among you, and you shall 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 break your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in a single oven and shall dole out your bread again by weight, and you shall eat and not be satisfied. |
| 27‘And after all this, if you do not obey Me, but walk contrary to Me, | 27“But if in spite of this you will not listen to me, but walk contrary to 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 contrary to you in fury, and I myself will discipline you sevenfold for your sins. |
| 29You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters. | 29You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your 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. | 30And I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars and cast your dead bodies upon the dead bodies of your idols, and my soul will abhor you. |
| 31I will lay your cities waste and bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not smell the fragrance of your sweet aromas. | 31And I will lay your cities waste and will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your pleasing aromas. |
| 32I will bring the land to desolation, and your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished at it. | 32And I myself will devastate the land, so that your enemies who settle in it shall be appalled at it. |
| 33I will scatter you among the nations and draw out a sword after you; your land shall be desolate and your cities waste. | 33And I will scatter you among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword after you, and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a 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. | 34“Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate, while you are in your enemies’ land; then the land shall 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 it shall have rest, the rest that it did not have on your Sabbaths when you were dwelling 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. | 36And 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 driven leaf shall put them to flight, and they shall flee as one flees from the sword, and they shall fall when none pursues. |
| 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 shall stumble over one another, as if to escape a sword, though none pursues. And you shall have no power to stand before your enemies. |
| 38You shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up. | 38And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up. |
| 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. | 39And those of you who are left shall rot away in your enemies’ lands because of their iniquity, and also because of the iniquities of their fathers they shall rot away like them. |
| 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, | 40“But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers in their treachery that they committed against me, and also in walking contrary to 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— | 41so that I walked contrary to them and brought them into the land of their enemies—if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled and they 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 I will remember 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. | 43But the land shall be abandoned by them and enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them, and they shall make amends for their iniquity, because they spurned my rules and their soul 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 for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not spurn them, neither will I abhor them so as to destroy them utterly 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 I will for their sake remember the covenant with their forefathers, 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 and rules and laws that the LORD made between himself and the people of Israel through Moses on Mount Sinai. |
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