Leviticus 26 - New International Version (NIV)

Reward for Obedience

26 “‘Do not make idols^(A) or set up an image^(B) or a sacred stone^(C) for yourselves, and do not place a carved stone^(D) in your land to bow down before it. I am the Lord your God.

² “‘Observe my Sabbaths^(E) and have reverence for my sanctuary.^(F) I am the Lord.

³ “‘If you follow my decrees and are careful to obey^(G) my commands, ⁴ I will send you rain^(H) in its season,^(I) and the ground will yield its crops and the trees their fruit.^{(J) 5} Your threshing will continue until grape harvest and the grape harvest will continue until planting, and you will eat all the food you want^(K) and live in safety in your land.^(L)

⁶ “‘I will grant peace in the land,^(M) and you will lie down^(N) and no one will make you afraid.^(O) I will remove wild beasts^(P) from the land, and the sword will not pass through your country. ⁷ You will pursue your enemies,^(Q) and they will fall by the sword before you. ⁸ Five^(R) 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.^(S)

⁹ “‘I will look on you with favor and make you fruitful and increase your numbers,^(T) and I will keep my covenant^(U) with you. ¹⁰ You will still be eating last year’s harvest when you will have to move it out to make room for the new.^{(V) 11} I will put my dwelling place^[a](W) among you, and I will not abhor you.^{(X) 12} I will walk^(Y) among you and be your God,^(Z) and you will be my people.^{(AA) 13} I am the Lord your God,^(AB) who brought you out of Egypt^(AC) so that you would no longer be slaves to the Egyptians; I broke the bars of your yoke^(AD) and enabled you to walk with heads held high.

Punishment for Disobedience

¹⁴ “‘But if you will not listen to me and carry out all these commands,^{(AE) 15} and if you reject my decrees and abhor my laws^(AF) and fail to carry out all my commands and so violate my covenant,^{(AG) 16} then I will do this to you: I will bring on you sudden terror, wasting diseases and fever^(AH) that will destroy your sight and sap your strength.^(AI) You will plant seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.^{(AJ) 17} I will set my face^(AK) against you so that you will be defeated^(AL) by your enemies;^(AM) those who hate you will rule over you,^(AN) and you will flee even when no one is pursuing you.^(AO)

¹⁸ “‘If after all this you will not listen to me,^(AP) I will punish^(AQ) you for your sins seven times over.^{(AR) 19} I will break down your stubborn pride^(AS) and make the sky above you like iron and the ground beneath you like bronze.^{(AT) 20} Your strength will be spent in vain,^(AU) because your soil will not yield its crops, nor will the trees of your land yield their fruit.^(AV)

²¹ “‘If you remain hostile^(AW) toward me and refuse to listen to me, I will multiply your afflictions seven times over,^(AX) as your sins deserve. ²² I will send wild animals^(AY) against you, and they will rob you of your children, destroy your cattle and make you so few^(AZ) in number that your roads will be deserted.^(BA)

²³ “‘If in spite of these things you do not accept my correction^(BB) but continue to be hostile toward me, ²⁴ I myself will be hostile^(BC) toward you and will afflict you for your sins seven times over. ²⁵ And I will bring the sword^(BD) on you to avenge^(BE) the breaking of the covenant. When you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague^(BF) among you, and you will be given into enemy hands. ²⁶ When I cut off your supply of bread,^(BG) 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 this you still do not listen to me^(BH) but continue to be hostile toward me, ²⁸ then in my anger^(BI) I will be hostile^(BJ) toward you, and I myself will punish you for your sins seven times over.^{(BK) 29} You will eat^(BL) the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters.^{(BM) 30} I will destroy your high places,^(BN) cut down your incense altars^(BO) and pile your dead bodies^[b] on the lifeless forms of your idols,^(BP) and I will abhor^(BQ) you. ³¹ I will turn your cities into ruins^(BR) and lay waste^(BS) your sanctuaries,^(BT) and I will take no delight in the pleasing aroma of your offerings.^{(BU) 32} I myself will lay waste the land,^(BV) so that your enemies who live there will be appalled.^{(BW) 33} I will scatter^(BX) you among the nations^(BY) and will draw out my sword^(BZ) and pursue you. Your land will be laid waste,^(CA) and your cities will lie in ruins.^{(CB) 34} Then the land will enjoy its sabbath years all the time that it lies desolate^(CC) and you are in the country of your enemies;^(CD) then the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths. ³⁵ All the time that it lies desolate, the land will have the rest^(CE) it did not have during the sabbaths you lived in it.

³⁶ “‘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^(CF) will put them to flight.^(CG) They will run as though fleeing from the sword, and they will fall, even though no one is pursuing them.^{(CH) 37} They will stumble over one another^(CI) as though fleeing from the sword, even though no one is pursuing them. So you will not be able to stand before your enemies.^{(CJ) 38} You will perish^(CK) among the nations; the land of your enemies will devour you.^{(CL) 39} Those of you who are left will waste away in the lands of their enemies because of their sins; also because of their ancestors’^(CM) sins they will waste away.^(CN)

⁴⁰ “‘But if they will confess^(CO) their sins^(CP) and the sins of their ancestors^(CQ)—their unfaithfulness and their hostility toward me, ⁴¹ which made me hostile^(CR) toward them so that I sent them into the land of their enemies—then when their uncircumcised hearts^(CS) are humbled^(CT) and they pay^(CU) for their sin, ⁴² I will remember my covenant with Jacob^(CV) and my covenant with Isaac^(CW) and my covenant with Abraham,^(CX) and I will remember the land. ⁴³ For the land will be deserted^(CY) by them and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them. They will pay for their sins because they rejected^(CZ) my laws and abhorred my decrees.^{(DA) 44} Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies,^(DB) I will not reject them or abhor^(DC) them so as to destroy them completely,^(DD) breaking my covenant^(DE) with them. I am the Lord their God. ⁴⁵ But for their sake I will remember^(DF) the covenant with their ancestors whom I brought out of Egypt^(DG) in the sight of the nations to be their God. I am the Lord.’”

⁴⁶ These are the decrees, the laws and the regulations that the Lord established at Mount Sinai^(DH) between himself and the Israelites through Moses.^(DI)

Footnotes

1. Leviticus 26:11 Or my tabernacle
2. Leviticus 26:30 Or your funeral offerings

Cross references

1. Leviticus 26:1 : S Ex 20:4
2. Leviticus 26:1 : Ps 97:7; Isa 48:5; Jer 44:19; Hab 2:18
3. Leviticus 26:1 : S Ex 23:24
4. Leviticus 26:1 : Nu 33:52
5. Leviticus 26:2 : S Ex 20:8
6. Leviticus 26:2 : Lev 19:30
7. Leviticus 26:3 : S Ge 26:5; S Ex 24:8; Dt 6:17; 7:12; 11:13, 22; 28:1, 9
8. Leviticus 26:4 : Dt 11:14; 28:12; Ps 68:9; Jer 5:24; Hos 6:3; Joel 2:23; Zec 10:1
9. Leviticus 26:4 : Job 5:10; Ps 65:9; 104:13; 147:8; Jer 5:24
10. Leviticus 26:4 : S Ex 23:26; S Lev 25:19; S Job 14:9; Ps 67:6
11. Leviticus 26:5 : Dt 6:11; 11:15; Eze 36:29-30; Joel 2:19, 26
12. Leviticus 26:5 : S Lev 25:18
13. Leviticus 26:6 : Ps 29:11; 37:11; 85:8; 147:14; Isa 26:3; 54:13; 60:18; Hag 2:9
14. Leviticus 26:6 : Ps 3:5; 4:8; Pr 3:24
15. Leviticus 26:6 : Job 11:18, 19; Isa 17:2; Jer 30:10; Mic 4:4; Zep 3:13
16. Leviticus 26:6 : S ver 22; S Ge 37:20
17. Leviticus 26:7 : Ps 18:37; 44:5
18. Leviticus 26:8 : Isa 30:17
19. Leviticus 26:8 : Dt 28:7; 32:30; Jos 23:10; Jdg 15:15; 1Ch 12:14
20. Leviticus 26:9 : S Ge 1:22; S 17:6; Ne 9:23
21. Leviticus 26:9 : S Ge 17:7
22. Leviticus 26:10 : Lev 25:22
23. Leviticus 26:11 : Ex 25:8; Ps 74:7; 76:2; Eze 37:27
24. Leviticus 26:11 : ver 15, 43, 44; Dt 31:6; 1Sa 12:22; 1Ki 6:13; 2Ki 17:15
25. Leviticus 26:12 : S Ge 3:8
26. Leviticus 26:12 : S Ge 17:7
27. Leviticus 26:12 : Ex 6:7; Jer 7:23; 11:4; 24:7; 30:22; 31:1; Zec 13:9; 2Co 6:16*
28. Leviticus 26:13 : Lev 11:44
29. Leviticus 26:13 : S Ex 6:6; S 13:3
30. Leviticus 26:13 : Isa 10:27; Jer 2:20; 27:2; 28:10; 30:8; Eze 30:18; 34:27; Hos 11:4
31. Leviticus 26:14 : Dt 28:15-68; Mal 2:2
32. Leviticus 26:15 : S ver 11
33. Leviticus 26:15 : S Ge 17:7
34. Leviticus 26:16 : Dt 28:22, 35; Ps 78:33
35. Leviticus 26:16 : ver 39; 1Sa 2:33; Ps 107:17; Eze 4:17; 24:23; 33:10
36. Leviticus 26:16 : Jdg 6:3-6; Job 31:8
37. Leviticus 26:17 : Lev 17:10; Eze 15:7
38. Leviticus 26:17 : Dt 28:48; Jos 7:12; Jdg 2:15; 1Ki 8:33; 2Ch 6:24
39. Leviticus 26:17 : Jos 7:4; Jer 19:7; 21:7
40. Leviticus 26:17 : Ps 106:41
41. Leviticus 26:17 : ver 36, 37; Dt 28:7, 25; Ps 53:5; Pr 28:1; Isa 30:17
42. Leviticus 26:18 : ver 14
43. Leviticus 26:18 : Ps 99:8; Jer 21:14; Am 3:14
44. Leviticus 26:18 : ver 21
45. Leviticus 26:19 : Ps 10:4; 73:6; Isa 16:6; 25:11; 28:1-3; Jer 13:9; 48:29; Eze 24:21; Am 6:8; Zep 3:11
46. Leviticus 26:19 : Dt 28:23; Job 38:38
47. Leviticus 26:20 : Dt 28:38; Ps 127:1; Isa 17:11; 49:4; Jer 12:13; Mic 6:15; Hag 1:6
48. Leviticus 26:20 : Dt 11:17; 28:24
49. Leviticus 26:21 : ver 41
50. Leviticus 26:21 : ver 18; S Ge 4:15
51. Leviticus 26:22 : S Ge 37:20
52. Leviticus 26:22 : Dt 28:62; Jer 42:2
53. Leviticus 26:22 : Jer 5:6; 14:16; 15:3; 16:4; Eze 14:15
54. Leviticus 26:23 : Jer 2:30; 5:3; 7:28; 17:23; 32:33; Zep 3:2
55. Leviticus 26:24 : 2Sa 22:27
56. Leviticus 26:25 : Jer 5:17; 15:3; 47:6; Eze 11:8; 14:17; 21:4; 33:2
57. Leviticus 26:25 : Jer 50:28; 51:6, 11
58. Leviticus 26:25 : S Ex 5:3; S 9:3; Nu 16:46; 1Ki 8:37; Hab 3:5
59. Leviticus 26:26 : 1Ki 8:37; 18:2; 2Ki 4:38; 6:25; 8:1; 25:3; Ps 105:16; Isa 3:1; 9:20; Jer 37:21; 52:6; Eze 4:16, 17; 5:16; 14:13; Hos 4:10; Mic 6:14
60. Leviticus 26:27 : ver 14
61. Leviticus 26:28 : Dt 32:19; Jdg 2:14; Ps 78:59; 106:40
62. Leviticus 26:28 : Dt 7:10; Job 34:11; Isa 59:18; 65:6-7; 66:6; Jer 17:10; 25:29; Joel 3:4
63. Leviticus 26:28 : ver 18
64. Leviticus 26:29 : 2Ki 6:29; Jer 19:9; La 4:10; Eze 5:10
65. Leviticus 26:29 : Dt 28:53
66. Leviticus 26:30 : Dt 12:2; 1Sa 9:12; 10:5; 1Ki 3:2, 4; 12:31; 13:2, 32; 2Ki 17:29; 23:20; 2Ch 34:3; Ps 78:58; Eze 6:3; 16:16; Am 7:9
67. Leviticus 26:30 : 2Ch 34:4; Isa 17:8; 27:9; Eze 6:6
68. Leviticus 26:30 : Isa 21:9; Jer 50:2; Eze 6:13
69. Leviticus 26:30 : Ps 106:40; Am 6:8
70. Leviticus 26:31 : Ne 1:3; Isa 1:7; 3:8, 26; 6:11; 24:12; 61:4; Jer 4:7; 9:11; 25:11; 34:22; 44:2, 6, 22; Eze 36:33; Mic 2:4; 3:12; Zep 2:5; 3:6
71. Leviticus 26:31 : 2Ki 22:19
72. Leviticus 26:31 : Ps 74:3-7; Isa 63:18; 64:11; La 2:7; Eze 24:21; Am 7:9
73. Leviticus 26:31 : Am 5:21, 22; 8:10
74. Leviticus 26:32 : Isa 5:6; Jer 9:11; 12:11; 25:11; 26:9; 33:10; 34:22; 44:22
75. Leviticus 26:32 : 1Ki 9:8; 2Ch 29:8; Isa 52:14; Jer 18:16; 19:8; 48:39; Eze 5:14; 26:16; 27:35; 28:19
76. Leviticus 26:33 : Jer 40:15; 50:17; Eze 34:6; Joel 3:2
77. Leviticus 26:33 : Dt 4:27; 28:64; Ne 1:8; Ps 44:11; 106:27; Jer 4:11; 9:16; 13:24; 31:10; Eze 5:10; 12:15; 17:21; 20:23; 22:15; Zec 7:14
78. Leviticus 26:33 : Jer 42:16; Am 9:4
79. Leviticus 26:33 : Isa 49:19; Jer 7:34
80. Leviticus 26:33 : ver 31; 1Sa 15:22; Job 36:11; Jer 40:3
81. Leviticus 26:34 : Isa 1:7; Jer 7:34; 25:11; 44:6; Eze 33:29
82. Leviticus 26:34 : ver 43; 2Ch 36:21
83. Leviticus 26:35 : S Lev 25:4
84. Leviticus 26:36 : Job 13:25
85. Leviticus 26:36 : 2Ki 25:5; Ps 58:7; La 1:3, 6; 4:19; Eze 21:7
86. Leviticus 26:36 : S ver 17
87. Leviticus 26:37 : Jer 6:21; 13:16; 46:16; Eze 3:20; Na 3:3
88. Leviticus 26:37 : Jos 7:12
89. Leviticus 26:38 : Job 4:9; 36:12; Ps 1:6; Isa 1:28; Jer 16:4; 44:27
90. Leviticus 26:38 : Dt 4:26
91. Leviticus 26:39 : Ex 20:5; Isa 14:21
92. Leviticus 26:39 : S ver 16; Isa 24:16
93. Leviticus 26:40 : S Lev 5:5
94. Leviticus 26:40 : Ps 32:5; 38:18
95. Leviticus 26:40 : Ne 9:2; Ps 106:6; Jer 3:12-15; 14:20; Hos 5:15; Lk 15:18; 1Jn 1:9
96. Leviticus 26:41 : S ver 21
97. Leviticus 26:41 : Dt 10:16; 30:6; Jer 4:4; 9:25, 26; Eze 44:7, 9; Ac 7:51
98. Leviticus 26:41 : 2Ch 7:14; 12:6; Eze 20:43
99. Leviticus 26:41 : Isa 6:7; 33:24; 40:2; 53:5, 6, 11
100. Leviticus 26:42 : Ge 28:15; 35:11-12
101. Leviticus 26:42 : S Ge 26:5
102. Leviticus 26:42 : S Ex 2:24
103. Leviticus 26:43 : Ps 69:25; Isa 6:11; 32:14; 62:4; Jer 2:15; 44:2; La 1:1; Eze 36:4
104. Leviticus 26:43 : Nu 11:20; 14:31; 1Sa 8:7; Ps 106:24
105. Leviticus 26:43 : S ver 11; Eze 20:13
106. Leviticus 26:44 : S ver 33; 2Ki 17:20; 25:11; 2Ch 6:36; 36:20
107. Leviticus 26:44 : S ver 11; Ro 11:2
108. Leviticus 26:44 : Dt 4:31; Jer 4:27; 5:10; 30:11
109. Leviticus 26:44 : Jdg 2:1; Jer 31:37; 33:26; 51:5
110. Leviticus 26:45 : Dt 4:31
111. Leviticus 26:45 : Ex 6:8; Lev 25:38
112. Leviticus 26:46 : S Ex 19:11
113. Leviticus 26:46 : S Lev 7:38; 27:34