“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. You shall keep my
Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.
“If you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do
them, 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. 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. 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. You
shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the
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. I will turn to you and make you fruitful and multiply
you and will confirm my covenant with you. You shall eat old store
long kept, and you shall clear out the old to make way for the new.
I will make my dwelling among you, and my soul shall not abhor you.
And I will walk among you and will be your God, and you shall be my
people. 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.
“But if you will not listen to me and will not do all these
commandments, 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, 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. 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. And if in spite of
this you will not listen to me, then I will discipline you again
sevenfold for your sins, and I will break the pride of your power,
and I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze.
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.
“Then if you walk contrary to me and will not listen to me, I
will continue striking you, sevenfold for your sins. 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.
“And if by this discipline you are not turned to me but walk
contrary to me, then I also will walk contrary to you, and I myself
will strike you sevenfold for your sins. 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. 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.
“But if in spite of this you will not listen to me, but walk
contrary to me, then I will walk contrary to you in fury, and I
myself will discipline you sevenfold for your sins. You shall eat
the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your
daughters. 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. And I will lay your cities
waste and will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell
your pleasing aromas. And I myself will devastate the land, so that
your enemies who settle in it shall be appalled at it. 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.
“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. 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. 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. 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. And you shall perish among the nations, and
the land of your enemies shall eat you up. 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.
“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, 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, 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. 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. 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. 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.”
These are the statutes and rules and laws that the LORD made
between himself and the people of Israel through Moses on Mount
Sinai.
