[1] "You shall make for yourselves no idols and erect no graven image or
pillar, and you shall not set up a figured stone in your land, to bow down
to them; for I am the LORD your God. [2] You shall keep my sabbaths and
reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD. [3] "If you walk in my statutes and
observe my commandments and do them, [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. [5] And your threshing shall last to the
time of vintage, and the vintage shall last to the time for sowing; and you
shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land securely. [6] And
I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and none shall make
you afraid; and I will remove evil beasts from the land, and the sword
shall not go through your land. [7] And you shall chase your enemies, and
they shall fall before you by the sword. [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. [9] And I will have regard for you and
make you fruitful and multiply you, and will confirm my covenant with you.
[10] And you shall eat old store long kept, and you shall clear out the old
to make way for the new. [11] And I will make my abode among you, and my
soul shall not abhor you. [12] And I will walk among you, and will be your
God, and you shall be my people. [13] I am the LORD your God, who brought
you forth 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. [14] "But
if you will not hearken to me, and will not do all these commandments, [15]
if you spurn my statutes, and if your soul abhors my ordinances, so that
you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant, [16] I will do
this to you: I will appoint over you sudden terror, consumption, and fever
that waste the eyes and cause life to pine away. And you shall sow your
seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it; [17] I will set my face
against you, and you shall be smitten before your enemies; those who hate
you shall rule over you, and you shall flee when none pursues you. [18] And
if in spite of this you will not hearken to me, then I will chastise you
again sevenfold for your sins, [19] and I will break the pride of your
power, and I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like brass;
[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.
[21] "Then if you walk contrary to me, and will not hearken to me, I will
bring more plagues upon you, sevenfold as many as your sins. [22] And I
will let loose the wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your
children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number, so that your
ways shall become desolate. [23] "And if by this discipline you are not
turned to me, but walk contrary to me, [24] then I also will walk contrary
to you, and I myself will smite you sevenfold for your sins. [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. [26] When I break your
staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and shall
deliver your bread again by weight; and you shall eat, and not be
satisfied. [27] "And if in spite of this you will not hearken to me, but
walk contrary to me, [28] then I will walk contrary to you in fury, and
chastise you myself sevenfold for your sins. [29] You shall eat the flesh
of your sons, and you shall eat 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. [31] And I will lay your cities waste, and will make your sanctuaries
desolate, and I will not smell your pleasing odors. [32] And I will
devastate the land, so that your enemies who settle in it shall be
astonished at it. [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. [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. [35] As long as it lies desolate
it shall have rest, the rest which it had not in your sabbaths when you
dwelt upon it. [36] And as for those of you that 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. [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. [38] And you shall perish
among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up. [39] And
those of you that are left shall pine away in your enemies' lands because
of their iniquity; and also because of the iniquities of their fathers they
shall pine away like them. [40] "But if they confess their iniquity and the
iniquity of their fathers in their treachery which they committed against
me, and also in walking contrary to 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;
[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. [43] But the land shall be left by them, and enjoy its sabbaths while
it lies desolate without them; and they shall make amends for their
iniquity, because they spurned my ordinances, and their soul abhorred my
statutes. [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;
[45] but I will for their sake remember the covenant with their
forefathers, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of
the nations, that I might be their God: I am the LORD." [46] These are the
statutes and ordinances and laws which the LORD made between him and the
people of Israel on Mount Sinai by Moses.

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