Leviticus 26 - New American Standard Bible (NASB)

Blessings of Obedience

26 ‘You shall not make for yourselves ^(A)idols, nor shall you set up for yourselves ^(B)a carved image or ^(C)a memorial stone, nor shall you place a ^(D)figured stone in your land to bow down ^[a]to it; for I am the Lord your God. ^{2 (E)}You shall keep My Sabbaths and revere My sanctuary; I am the Lord. ^{3 (F)}If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments so as to carry them out, ⁴ then ^(G)I shall give you rains in their season, so that the land will yield its produce and the trees of the field will bear their fruit. ^{5 (H)}Indeed, your threshing season will last for you until grape gathering, and grape gathering will last until sowing time. So you will eat your ^[b]food to the full and ^(I)live securely in your land. ^{6 (J)}I shall also grant peace in the land, so that ^(K)you may lie down, with no one to make you afraid. ^(L)I shall also eliminate harmful animals from the land, and ^(M)no sword will pass through your land. ⁷ Instead, you will chase your enemies, and they will fall before you by the sword; ^{8 (N)}five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand; and your enemies will fall before you by the sword. ⁹ So I will turn toward you and ^(O)make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will ^(P)confirm My covenant with you. ¹⁰ And ^(Q)you will eat the old supply, and clear out the old because of the new. ^{11 (R)}Moreover, I will make My ^[c]dwelling among you, and My soul will not ^[d]reject you. ^{12 (S)}I will also walk among you and be your God, and you shall be My people. ^{13 (T)}I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so that you would not be their slaves, and ^(U)I broke your yoke and made you walk erect.

Penalties of Disobedience

¹⁴ ‘^(V)But if you do not obey Me and do not carry out all these commandments, ¹⁵ if, instead, you ^(W)reject My statutes, and if your soul loathes My ordinances so as not to carry out all My commandments, but rather to ^(X)break My covenant, ¹⁶ I, in turn, will do this to you: I will ^[e]summon a ^(Y)sudden terror against you, consumption and fever that will make the eyes fail and the ^(Z)soul languish; also, ^(AA)you will sow your seed uselessly, for your enemies will eat it. ¹⁷ And I will set My face against you so that you will be defeated before your enemies; and ^(AB)those who hate you will rule over you, and ^(AC)you will flee when no one is pursuing you. ¹⁸ If also after these things you do not obey Me, then I will punish you ^(AD)seven times more for your sins. ¹⁹ I will also ^(AE)break down your pride of power; and I will make your sky like iron and your earth like bronze. ^{20 (AF)}Your strength will be consumed uselessly, for your land will not yield its produce and the trees of the land will not yield their fruit.

²¹ ‘Yet if you ^[f](AG)show hostility toward Me and are unwilling to obey Me, I will increase the plague on you ^(AH)seven times according to your sins. ^{22 (AI)}I will also let loose among you the animals of the field, which will deprive you of your children and eliminate your cattle, and reduce your number so that ^(AJ)your roads become deserted.

²³ ‘^(AK)And if by these things you do not learn your lesson regarding Me, but you show hostility toward Me, ²⁴ then I in turn will ^(AL)show hostility toward you; and I, even I, will strike you ^(AM)seven times for your sins. ²⁵ I will also bring upon you a sword which will execute ^(AN)vengeance for the covenant; and when you gather together into your cities, I will send a ^(AO)plague among you, so that you will be handed over to the enemy. ^{26 (AP)}When I break your staff of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven, and they will bring back your bread ^[g]in rationed amounts, so that you will ^(AQ)eat and not be satisfied.

²⁷ ‘Yet if in spite of this you do not obey Me, but act with hostility against Me, ²⁸ then ^(AR)I will act with wrathful hostility against you, and I for My part will punish you seven times for your sins. ²⁹ Further, ^(AS)you will eat the flesh of your sons, and you will eat the flesh of your daughters. ³⁰ I then ^(AT)will destroy your high places, and cut down your ^(AU)incense altars, and ^[h]pile your ^[i]remains on the ^[j]remains of your idols, for My soul will loathe you. ³¹ I will turn your cities into ^(AV)ruins as well and make your ^(AW)sanctuaries desolate, and I will not ^(AX)smell your soothing aromas. ³² And I will make ^(AY)the land desolate ^(AZ)so that your enemies who settle in it will be appalled at it. ³³ You, however, I ^(BA)will scatter among the nations, and I will draw out a sword after you, as your land becomes desolate and your cities become ruins.

³⁴ ‘^(BB)Then the land will restore its Sabbaths all the days of the desolation, while you are in your enemies’ land; then the land will rest and restore its Sabbaths. ³⁵ All the days of its desolation it will have the rest which it did not have on your Sabbaths, while you were living on it. ³⁶ As for those among you who are left, I will also bring ^(BC)despair into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. And the sound of a scattered leaf will chase them, and even when no one is pursuing they will flee ^[k]as though from the sword, and they will fall. ^{37 (BD)}They will then stumble over each other as if running from the sword, although no one is pursuing; and you will have no strength to stand before your enemies. ³⁸ Instead, ^(BE)you will perish among the nations, and your enemies’ land will consume you. ^{39 (BF)}So those of you who may be left will rot away because of their wrongdoing in the lands of your enemies; and also because of the wrongdoing of their forefathers they will rot away with them.

⁴⁰ ‘But ^(BG)if they confess their wrongdoing and the wrongdoing of their forefathers, in their unfaithfulness which they committed against Me, and also in their acting with hostility against Me— ⁴¹ I also was acting with hostility against them, to bring them into the land of their enemies—^(BH)or if their uncircumcised heart is humbled so that ^(BI)they then make amends for their wrongdoing, ⁴² then I will remember ^(BJ)My covenant with Jacob, and I will remember also ^(BK)My covenant with Isaac, and ^(BL)My covenant with Abraham as well, and I will remember the land. ^{43 (BM)}For the land will be abandoned by them, and will restore its Sabbaths while it is made desolate without them. They, meanwhile, will be making amends for their wrongdoing, ^[l]because they rejected My ordinances and their ^(BN)soul loathed My statutes. ⁴⁴ Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, nor will I so ^(BO)loathe them as ^(BP)to destroy them, ^(BQ)breaking My covenant with them; for I am the Lord their God. ⁴⁵ But I will remember for them the ^(BR)covenant with their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, so that ^(BS)I might be their God. I am the Lord.’”

^{46 (BT)}These are the statutes and ordinances and laws which the Lord established between Himself and the sons of Israel ^[m]through Moses on Mount Sinai.

Footnotes

1. Leviticus 26:1 Lit over
2. Leviticus 26:5 Lit bread
3. Leviticus 26:11 Or tabernacle
4. Leviticus 26:11 Lit abhor
5. Leviticus 26:16 Or impose...on you
6. Leviticus 26:21 Lit walk with Me hostilely, and so throughout the ch
7. Leviticus 26:26 Lit by weight
8. Leviticus 26:30 Lit give
9. Leviticus 26:30 Lit corpses
10. Leviticus 26:30 Lit corpses
11. Leviticus 26:36 Lit the flight of the sword
12. Leviticus 26:43 Lit because and by the cause
13. Leviticus 26:46 Lit by the hand of

Cross references

1. Leviticus 26:1 : Lev 19:4; Deut 5:8
2. Leviticus 26:1 : Ex 20:4; Deut 16:21f
3. Leviticus 26:1 : Ex 23:24
4. Leviticus 26:1 : Num 33:52
5. Leviticus 26:2 : Lev 19:30
6. Leviticus 26:3 : Deut 7:12-26; 11:13; 28:1-14
7. Leviticus 26:4 : Deut 11:14
8. Leviticus 26:5 : Deut 11:15; Joel 2:19, 26; Amos 9:13
9. Leviticus 26:5 : Lev 25:18, 19; Ezek 34:25
10. Leviticus 26:6 : Ps 29:11; 85:8; 147:14
11. Leviticus 26:6 : Zeph 3:13
12. Leviticus 26:6 : Lev 26:22
13. Leviticus 26:6 : Lev 26:25
14. Leviticus 26:8 : Deut 32:30
15. Leviticus 26:9 : Gen 17:6; 22:17; 48:4
16. Leviticus 26:9 : Gen 17:7
17. Leviticus 26:10 : Lev 25:22
18. Leviticus 26:11 : Ex 25:8; 29:45, 46; Ezek 37:26
19. Leviticus 26:12 : Gen 3:8; Deut 23:14; 2 Cor 6:16
20. Leviticus 26:13 : Ex 20:2
21. Leviticus 26:13 : Ezek 34:27
22. Leviticus 26:14 : Deut 28:15-68; Josh 23:15
23. Leviticus 26:15 : Lev 26:11; 2 Kin 17:15
24. Leviticus 26:15 : Lev 26:9
25. Leviticus 26:16 : Deut 28:22; Ps 78:33
26. Leviticus 26:16 : 1 Sam 2:33; Ezek 24:23; 33:10
27. Leviticus 26:16 : Judg 6:3-6; Job 31:8
28. Leviticus 26:17 : Ps 106:41
29. Leviticus 26:17 : Lev 26:36, 37; Ps 53:5; Prov 28:1
30. Leviticus 26:18 : Lev 26:21, 24, 28
31. Leviticus 26:19 : Is 28:1-3; Ezek 24:21
32. Leviticus 26:20 : Ps 127:1; Is 17:10, 11; 49:4; Jer 12:13
33. Leviticus 26:21 : Lev 26:23, 27, 40
34. Leviticus 26:21 : Lev 26:18
35. Leviticus 26:22 : 2 Kin 17:25
36. Leviticus 26:22 : Judg 5:6
37. Leviticus 26:23 : Lev 26:21; Jer 5:3
38. Leviticus 26:24 : Lev 26:28, 41
39. Leviticus 26:24 : Lev 26:21
40. Leviticus 26:25 : Jer 50:28; 51:11
41. Leviticus 26:25 : Num 14:12
42. Leviticus 26:26 : Is 3:1; Ezek 4:16, 17; 5:16
43. Leviticus 26:26 : Mic 6:14
44. Leviticus 26:28 : Lev 26:24, 41; Is 59:18
45. Leviticus 26:29 : 2 Kin 6:29
46. Leviticus 26:30 : 2 Kin 23:20; Ezek 6:3, 6; Amos 7:9
47. Leviticus 26:30 : 2 Chr 34:4, 7; Is 27:9
48. Leviticus 26:31 : Neh 2:3; Jer 44:2, 6, 22
49. Leviticus 26:31 : Is 63:18; Lam 2:7
50. Leviticus 26:31 : Amos 5:21
51. Leviticus 26:32 : Jer 9:11; 12:11; 25:11; 33:10
52. Leviticus 26:32 : Jer 18:16; 19:8
53. Leviticus 26:33 : Deut 4:27; 28:64; Ps 44:11; 106:27; Jer 31:10; Ezek 12:15; 20:23; Zech 7:14
54. Leviticus 26:34 : Lev 26:43; 2 Chr 36:21
55. Leviticus 26:36 : Is 30:17; Lam 1:3, 6; 4:19; Ezek 21:7
56. Leviticus 26:37 : Jer 6:21; Nah 3:3
57. Leviticus 26:38 : Deut 4:26
58. Leviticus 26:39 : Ezek 4:17; 33:10
59. Leviticus 26:40 : Jer 3:12-15; 14:20; Hos 5:15
60. Leviticus 26:41 : Jer 4:4; 9:25, 26; Ezek 44:7, 9; Acts 7:51
61. Leviticus 26:41 : Ezek 20:43
62. Leviticus 26:42 : Gen 28:13-15; 35:11, 12
63. Leviticus 26:42 : Gen 26:2-5
64. Leviticus 26:42 : Gen 22:15-18
65. Leviticus 26:43 : Lev 26:34
66. Leviticus 26:43 : Lev 26:11
67. Leviticus 26:44 : Lev 26:11
68. Leviticus 26:44 : Deut 4:31; Jer 30:11
69. Leviticus 26:44 : Jer 33:20-26
70. Leviticus 26:45 : Ex 6:6-8
71. Leviticus 26:45 : Gen 17:7
72. Leviticus 26:46 : Lev 7:38; 27:34; Deut 4:5; 29:1