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Leviticus 26 Parallel Bible Translations
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| 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. | Do not make idols for yourselves. You shall not erect a carved image or a sacred stone for yourselves, nor shall you set up a carved stone for worship in your land; for I, the LORD, am your God. | “’Do not make idols or set up an image or a sacred stone for yourselves, and do not place a carved stone in your land to bow down before it. I am the LORD your God. | |
| 2 | You shall keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD. | Keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary. I am the LORD. | “’Observe my Sabbaths and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am the LORD. | |
| 3 | “If you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them, | If you live in accordance with my statutes and are careful to observe my commandments, | “’If you follow my decrees and are careful to obey my commands, | |
| 4 | then 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. | I will give you your rains in due season, so that the land will yield its crops, and the trees their fruit; | I will send you rain in its season, and the ground will yield its crops and the trees their fruit. | |
| 5 | Your 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. | your threshing will last till vintage time, and your vintage till the time for sowing, and you will eat your fill of food, and live securely in your land. | Your threshing will continue until grape harvest and the grape harvest will continue until planting, and you will eat all the food you want and live in safety in your land. | |
| 6 | I 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. | I will establish peace in the land, and you will lie down to rest with no one to cause you anxiety. I will rid the country of ravenous beasts, and no sword shall sweep across your land. | “’I will grant peace in the land, and you will lie down and no one will make you afraid. I will remove wild beasts from the land, and the sword will not pass through your country. | |
| 7 | You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword. | You will rout your enemies, and they shall fall before your sword. | You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall by the sword before you. | |
| 8 | Five 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. | Five of you will put a hundred of your foes to flight, and a hundred of you will put to flight ten thousand, till your enemies fall before your sword. | Five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand, and your enemies will fall by the sword before you. | |
| 9 | I will turn to you and make you fruitful and multiply you and will confirm my covenant with you. | I will look with favor upon you, and make you fruitful and numerous, as I carry out my covenant with you. | “’I will look on you with favor and make you fruitful and increase your numbers, and I will keep my covenant with you. | |
| 10 | You shall eat old store long kept, and you shall clear out the old to make way for the new. | You shall eat the oldest stored harvest, and have to discard it to make room for the new. | You will still be eating last year’s harvest when you will have to move it out to make room for the new. | |
| 11 | I will make my dwelling among you, and my soul shall not abhor you. | I will set my tabernacle in your midst, and will not loathe you. | I will put my dwelling place among you, and I will not abhor you. | |
| 12 | And I will walk among you and will be your God, and you shall be my people. | Ever present in your midst, I will be your God, and you will be my people; | I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be my people. | |
| 13 | I 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. | I, the LORD, am your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be their slaves no more, breaking the bars of your yoke and making you walk erect. | I am the LORD your God, who brought you out 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 with heads held high. | |
| 14 | “But if you will not listen to me and will not do all these commandments, | But if you do not heed me and do not keep all these commandments, | “’But if you will not listen to me and carry out all these commands, | |
| 15 | 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, | if you reject my statutes and loathe my decrees, refusing to obey all my commandments and breaking my covenant, | and if you reject my decrees and abhor my laws and fail to carry out all my commands and so violate my covenant, | |
| 16 | then 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. | then I, in turn, will do this to you: I will bring terror upon you—with consumption and fever to dim the eyes and sap the life. You will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will consume the crop. | then I will do this to you: I will bring on you sudden terror, wasting diseases and fever that will destroy your sight and sap your strength. You will plant seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it. | |
| 17 | I 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. | I will turn against you, and you will be beaten down before your enemies and your foes will lord it over you. You will flee though no one pursues you. | 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 even when no one is pursuing you. | |
| 18 | And if in spite of this you will not listen to me, then I will discipline you again sevenfold for your sins, | If even after this you do not obey me, I will increase the chastisement for your sins sevenfold, | “’If after all this you will not listen to me, I will punish you for your sins seven times over. | |
| 19 | and I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze. | to break your proud strength. I will make the sky above you as hard as iron, and your soil as hard as bronze, | I will break down your stubborn pride and make the sky above you like iron and the ground beneath you like bronze. | |
| 20 | And 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. | so that your strength will be spent in vain; your land will bear no crops, and its trees no fruit. | Your strength will be spent in vain, because your soil will not yield its crops, nor will the trees of your land yield their fruit. | |
| 21 | “Then if you walk contrary to me and will not listen to me, I will continue striking you, sevenfold for your sins. | If then you continue hostile, unwilling to obey me, I will multiply my blows sevenfold, as your sins deserve. | “’If you remain hostile toward me and refuse to listen to me, I will multiply your afflictions seven times over, as your sins deserve. | |
| 22 | And 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. | I will unleash wild beasts against you, to rob you of your children and wipe out your livestock, till your population dwindles away and your roads become deserted. | I will send wild animals against you, and they will rob you of your children, destroy your cattle and make you so few in number that your roads will be deserted. | |
| 23 | “And if by this discipline you are not turned to me but walk contrary to me, | If, with all this, you still do not accept my discipline and continue hostile to me, | “’If in spite of these things you do not accept my correction but continue to be hostile toward me, | |
| 24 | then I also will walk contrary to you, and I myself will strike you sevenfold for your sins. | I, too, will continue to be hostile to you and I, for my part, will smite you for your sins sevenfold. | I myself will be hostile toward you and will afflict you for your sins seven times over. | |
| 25 | And 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. | I will bring against you the sword, the avenger of my covenant. Though you then huddle together in your cities, I will send pestilence among you, till you are delivered to the enemy. | And I will bring the sword on you to avenge the breaking of the covenant. When you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague among you, and you will be given into enemy hands. | |
| 26 | When 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. | When I break your staff of bread, ten women will need but one oven for baking your bread, and they shall dole it out to you by weight; and though you eat, you shall not be satisfied. | When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will be able to bake your bread in one oven, and they will dole out the bread by weight. You will eat, but you will not be satisfied. | |
| 27 | “But if in spite of this you will not listen to me, but walk contrary to me, | If, despite all this, you disobey and continue hostile to me, | “’If in spite of this you still do not listen to me but continue to be hostile toward me, | |
| 28 | then I will walk contrary to you in fury, and I myself will discipline you sevenfold for your sins. | I will continue in my hostile rage toward you, and I myself will discipline you for your sins sevenfold, | then in my anger I will be hostile toward you, and I myself will punish you for your sins seven times over. | |
| 29 | You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters. | till you begin to eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters. | You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters. | |
| 30 | And 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. | I will demolish your high places, overthrow your incense stands, and cast your corpses upon the corpses of your idols. In my loathing of you, | I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars and pile your dead bodies on the lifeless forms of your idols, and I will abhor you. | |
| 31 | And I will lay your cities waste and will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your pleasing aromas. | I will lay waste your cities and desolate your sanctuaries, refusing your sweet-smelling offerings. | I will turn your cities into ruins and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will take no delight in the pleasing aroma of your offerings. | |
| 32 | And I myself will devastate the land, so that your enemies who settle in it shall be appalled at it. | So devastated will I leave the land that your enemies who come to live there will stand aghast at the sight of it. | I myself will lay waste the land, so that your enemies who live there will be appalled. | |
| 33 | And 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. | And you I will scatter among the nations at the point of my drawn sword, leaving your countryside desolate and your cities deserted. | I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out my sword and pursue you. Your land will be laid waste, and your cities will lie in ruins. | |
| 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. | Then shall the land, during the time it lies waste, make up its lost sabbaths, while you are in the land of your enemies; then shall the land have rest and make up for its sabbaths | Then the land will enjoy its sabbath years all the time that it lies desolate and you are in the country of your enemies; then the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths. | |
| 35 | As 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. | during all the time that it lies desolate, enjoying the rest that you would not let it have on your sabbaths when you lived there. | All the time that it lies desolate, the land will have the rest it did not have during the sabbaths 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 driven leaf shall put them to flight, and they shall flee as one flees from the sword, and they shall fall when none pursues. | Those of you who survive in the lands of their enemies, I will make so fainthearted that the sound of a driven leaf will pursue them, and they shall run as if from the sword, and fall though no one pursues them; | “’As for those of you who are left, I will make their hearts so fearful in the lands of their enemies that the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to flight. They will run as though fleeing from the sword, and they will fall, even though no one is pursuing them. | |
| 37 | They 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. | stumbling over one another as if to escape a sword, while no one is after them—so helpless will you be to take a stand against your foes! | They will stumble over one another as though fleeing from the sword, even though no one is pursuing them. So you will not be able to stand before your enemies. | |
| 38 | And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up. | You shall perish among the nations, swallowed up in your enemies’ country. | You will perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will devour you. | |
| 39 | And 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. | Those of you who survive will waste away in the lands of their enemies, for their own and their ancestors’ guilt. | Those of you who are left will waste away in the lands of their enemies because of their sins; also because of their ancestors’ sins they will waste away. | |
| 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, | They will confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their ancestors in their treachery against me and in their continued hostility toward me, | “’But if they will confess their sins and the sins of their ancestors—their unfaithfulness and their hostility toward me, | |
| 41 | so 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, | so that I, too, had to be hostile to them and bring them into their enemies’ land. Then, when their uncircumcised hearts are humbled and they make amends for their iniquity, | which made me hostile toward them so that I sent them into the land of their enemies—then when their uncircumcised hearts are humbled and they pay for their sin, | |
| 42 | then 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. | I will remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac; and also my covenant with Abraham I will remember. The land, too, I will remember. | I will remember my covenant with Jacob and my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land. | |
| 43 | But 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. | The land will be forsaken by them, that in its desolation without them, it may make up its sabbaths, and that they, too, may make good the debt of their guilt for having spurned my decrees and loathed my statutes. | For the land will be deserted by them and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them. They will pay for their sins because they rejected my laws and abhorred my decrees. | |
| 44 | Yet 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. | Yet even so, even while they are in their enemies’ land, I will not reject or loathe them to the point of wiping them out, thus making void my covenant with them; for I, the LORD, am their God. | Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them or abhor them so as to destroy them completely, breaking my covenant with them. I am the LORD their God. | |
| 45 | But 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.” | I will remember for them the covenant I made with their forebears, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt before the eyes of the nations, that I might be their God. I am the LORD. | But for their sake I will remember the covenant with their ancestors whom I brought out of Egypt in the sight of the nations to be their God. I am the LORD.’” | |
| 46 | These are the statutes and rules and laws that the LORD made between himself and the people of Israel through Moses on Mount Sinai. | These are the statutes, decrees and laws which the LORD established between himself and the Israelites through Moses on Mount Sinai. | These are the decrees, the laws and the regulations that the LORD established at Mount Sinai between himself and the Israelites through Moses. | |
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