Leviticus 26 Parallel Bible

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1	“Do not make idols or set up carved images, or sacred pillars, or sculptured stones in your land so you may worship them. I am the LORD your God.	“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 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 must keep my Sabbath days of rest and show reverence for my sanctuary. I am the LORD.	You shall 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 follow my decrees and are careful to obey my commands,	“If you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them,	“’If you follow my decrees and are careful to obey my commands,
4	I will send you the seasonal rains. The land will then yield its crops, and the trees of the field will produce their fruit.	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 send you rain in its season, and the ground will yield its crops and the trees their fruit.
5	Your threshing season will overlap with the grape harvest, and your grape harvest will overlap with the season of planting grain. You will eat your fill and live securely in your own land.	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 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 you peace in the land, and you will be able to sleep with no cause for fear. I will rid the land of wild animals and keep your enemies out of your land.	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 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	In fact, you will chase down your enemies and slaughter them with your swords.	You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.	You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall by the sword before you.
8	Five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand! All your enemies will fall beneath your sword.	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 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 look favorably upon you, making you fertile and multiplying your people. And I will fulfill my covenant with you.	I will turn to you and make you fruitful and multiply you and will confirm 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 will have such a surplus of crops that you will need to clear out the old grain to make room for the new harvest!	You shall eat old store long kept, and you shall clear out the old to make way 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 live among you, and I will not despise you.	I will make my dwelling among you, and my soul shall not abhor you.	I will put my dwelling place among you, and I will not abhor you.
12	I will walk among you; I will be your God, and you will be my people.	And I will walk among you and will be your God, and you shall 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 so you would no longer be their slaves. I broke the yoke of slavery from your neck so you can walk with your heads held high.	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 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	“However, if you do not listen to me or obey all these commands,	“But if you will not listen to me and will not do all these commandments,	“’But if you will not listen to me and carry out all these commands,
15	and if you break my covenant by rejecting my decrees, treating my regulations with contempt, and refusing to obey my commands,	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,	and if you reject my decrees and abhor my laws and fail to carry out all my commands and so violate my covenant,
16	I will punish you. I will bring sudden terrors upon you—wasting diseases and burning fevers that will cause your eyes to fail and your life to ebb away. You will plant your crops in vain because your enemies will eat them.	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 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 turn against you, and you will be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you, and you will run even when no one is chasing you!	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 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 all this, you still disobey me, I will punish you seven times over for your sins.	And if in spite of this you will not listen to me, then I will discipline you again sevenfold for your sins,	“’If after all this you will not listen to me, I will punish you for your sins seven times over.
19	I will break your proud spirit by making the skies as unyielding as iron and the earth as hard as bronze.	and I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze.	I will break down your stubborn pride and make the sky above you like iron and the ground beneath you like bronze.
20	All your work will be for nothing, for your land will yield no crops, and your trees will bear no fruit.	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.	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	“If even then you remain hostile toward me and refuse to obey me, I will inflict disaster on you seven times over for your sins.	“Then if you walk contrary to me and will not listen to me, I will continue striking you, sevenfold for your sins.	“’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	I will send wild animals that will rob you of your children and destroy your livestock. Your numbers will dwindle, and your roads will be deserted.	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 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 you fail to learn the lesson and continue your hostility toward me,	“And if by this discipline you are not turned to me but walk contrary to me,	“’If in spite of these things you do not accept my correction but continue to be hostile toward me,
24	then I myself will be hostile toward you. I will personally strike you with calamity seven times over for your sins.	then I also will walk contrary to you, and I myself will strike you sevenfold for your sins.	I myself will be hostile toward you and will afflict you for your sins seven times over.
25	I will send armies against you to carry out the curse of the covenant you have broken. When you run to your towns for safety, I will send a plague to destroy you there, and you will be handed over to your enemies.	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.	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	I will destroy your food supply, so that ten women will need only one oven to bake bread for their families. They will ration your food by weight, and though you have food to eat, you will not be satisfied.	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 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	“If in spite of all this you still refuse to listen and still remain hostile toward me,	“But if in spite of this you will not listen to me, but walk contrary 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 give full vent to my hostility. I myself will punish you seven times over for your sins.	then I will walk contrary to you in fury, and I myself will discipline you sevenfold for your sins.	then in my anger I will be hostile toward you, and I myself will punish you for your sins seven times over.
29	Then you will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters.	You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters.	You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters.
30	I will destroy your pagan shrines and knock down your places of worship. I will leave your lifeless corpses piled on top of your lifeless idols, and I will despise you.	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 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	I will make your cities desolate and destroy your places of pagan worship. I will take no pleasure in your offerings that should be a pleasing aroma to me.	And I will lay your cities waste and will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your pleasing aromas.	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	Yes, I myself will devastate your land, and your enemies who come to occupy it will be appalled at what they see.	And I myself will devastate the land, so that your enemies who settle in it shall be appalled at it.	I myself will lay waste the land, so that your enemies who live there will be appalled.
33	I will scatter you among the nations and bring out my sword against you. Your land will become desolate, and your cities will lie in ruins.	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.	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 at last the land will enjoy its neglected Sabbath years as it lies desolate while you are in exile in the land of your enemies. Then the land will finally rest and enjoy the Sabbaths it missed.	“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 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 the land lies in ruins, it will enjoy the rest you never allowed it to take every seventh year while you lived in it.	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.	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 for those of you who survive, I will demoralize you in the land of your enemies. You will live in such fear that the sound of a leaf driven by the wind will send you fleeing. You will run as though fleeing from a sword, and you will fall even when no one pursues you.	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.	“’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	Though no one is chasing you, you will stumble over each other as though fleeing from a sword. You will have no power to stand up against your enemies.	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.	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	You will die among the foreign nations and be devoured in the land of your enemies.	And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.	You will perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will devour you.
39	Those of you who survive will waste away in your enemies’ lands because of their sins and the sins of their ancestors.	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 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 at last my people will confess their sins and the sins of their ancestors for betraying me and being hostile toward me.	“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,	“’But if they will confess their sins and the sins of their ancestors—their unfaithfulness and their hostility toward me,
41	When I have turned their hostility back on them and brought them to the land of their enemies, then at last their stubborn hearts will be humbled, and they will pay for their sins.	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,	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 my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.	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 my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.
43	For the land must be abandoned to enjoy its years of Sabbath rest as it lies deserted. At last the people will pay for their sins, for they have continually rejected my regulations and despised my decrees.	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.	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	“But despite all this, I will not utterly reject or despise them while they are in exile in the land of their enemies. I will not cancel my covenant with them by wiping them out, for I am the LORD their God.	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 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	For their sakes I will remember my ancient covenant with their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of all the nations, that I might be their God. I am the LORD.”	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.”	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 decrees, regulations, and instructions that the LORD gave through Moses on Mount Sinai as evidence of the relationship between himself and the Israelites.	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 decrees, the laws and the regulations that the LORD established at Mount Sinai between himself and the Israelites through Moses.
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