1 Y ou shall make for yourselves no idols nor shall you erect a graven image, pillar, or obelisk, nor shall you place any figured stone in your land to which or on which to bow down; for I am the Lord your God.

“‘You shall make for yourselves no idols, and you shall not raise up an engraved image or a pillar, and you shall not place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it; for I am Yahweh your God.

2 Y ou shall keep My Sabbaths and reverence My sanctuary. I am the Lord.

“‘You shall keep my Sabbaths, and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am Yahweh.

3 I f you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments and do them,

“‘If you walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;

4 I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase and the trees of the field yield 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.

5 A nd your threshing shall reach to the vintage and the vintage shall reach to the sowing time, and you shall eat your bread to the full and dwell in your land securely.

Your threshing shall reach to the vintage, and the vintage shall reach to the sowing time. You shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.

6 I will give peace in the land; you shall lie down and none shall fill you with dread or make you afraid; and I will clear ferocious (wild) beasts out of the land, and no sword shall go through your land.

“‘I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and no one will make you afraid. I will remove evil animals out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.

7 A nd you shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.

You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.

8 F ive of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight; your enemies 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.

9 F or I will be leaning toward you with favor and regard for you, rendering you fruitful, multiplying you, and establishing and ratifying My covenant with you.

“‘I will have respect for you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you.

10 A nd you shall eat the old store of produce long kept, and clear out the old for the new.

You shall eat old store long kept, and you shall move out the old because of the new.

11 I will set My dwelling in and among you, and My soul shall not despise or reject or separate itself from you.

I will set my tent among you, and my soul won’t abhor you.

12 A nd I will walk in and with and among you and will be your God, and you shall be My people.

I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you will be my people.

13 I am the Lord your God, Who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that you should no more be slaves; and I have broken the bars of your yoke and made you walk erect.

I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves. I have broken the bars of your yoke, and made you go upright.

14 B ut if you will not hearken to Me and will not do all these commandments,

“‘But if you will not listen to me, and will not do all these commandments;

15 A nd if you spurn and despise My statutes, and if your soul despises and rejects My ordinances, so that you will not do all My commandments, but break My covenant,

and if you shall reject 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: I will appoint over you terror (trembling, trouble), even consumption and fever that consume and waste the eyes and make the life pine away. You shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away. You will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.

17 I will set My face against you and you shall be defeated and slain before your enemies; they who hate you shall rule over you; you shall flee when no one pursues you.

I will set my face against you, and you will be struck before your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you; and you will flee when no one pursues you.

18 A nd if in spite of all this you still will not listen and be obedient to Me, then I will chastise and discipline you seven times more for your sins.

“‘If you in spite of these things will not listen to me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins.

19 A nd I will break and humble your pride in your power, and I will make your heavens as iron and your earth as brass.

I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron, and your soil like brass.

20 A nd your strength shall be spent in vain, for your land shall not yield its increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruit.

Your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won’t yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruit.

21 I f you walk contrary to Me and will not heed Me, I will bring seven times more plagues upon you, according to your sins.

“‘If you walk contrary to me, and won’t listen to me, then I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to your sins.

22 I will loose the wild beasts of the field among you, which shall rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few so that your roads shall be deserted and desolate.

I will send the wild animals among you, which will rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number. Your roads will become desolate.

23 I f by these means you are not turned to Me but determine to walk contrary to Me,

“‘If by these things you won’t be reformed to me, but will walk contrary to me;

24 I also will walk contrary to you, and I will smite you seven times for your sins.

then I will also walk contrary to you; and I will strike you, even I, seven times for your sins.

25 A nd I will bring a sword upon you that shall execute the vengeance of My covenant; and you shall be gathered together within your cities, and I will send the pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into the hands of the enemy.

I will bring a sword upon you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant. You will be gathered together within your cities, and I will send the pestilence among you. You will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

26 W hen I break your staff of bread and cut off your supply of food, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall ration your bread and deliver it again by weight; and you shall eat, and not be satisfied.

When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight. You shall eat, and not be satisfied.

27 A nd if in spite of all this you will not listen and give heed to Me but walk contrary to Me,

“‘If you in spite of this won’t listen to me, but walk contrary to me;

28 T hen I will walk contrary to you in wrath, and I also will chastise you seven times for your sins.

then I will walk contrary to you in wrath. I will also chastise you seven times for your sins.

29 Y ou shall eat the flesh of your sons and of your daughters.

You will eat the flesh of your sons, and you will eat the flesh of your daughters.

30 A nd I will destroy your high places, and cut down your sun-images, and throw your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols, and My soul shall abhor you.

I will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you.

31 I will lay your cities waste, bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not smell the fragrance of your sweet and soothing odors.

I will lay your cities waste, and will bring your sanctuaries to desolation. I will not take delight in the sweet fragrance of your offerings.

32 A nd I will bring the land into desolation, and your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished at it.

I will bring the land into desolation; and your enemies that dwell therein will be astonished at it.

33 I will scatter you among the nations and draw out sword after you; and your land shall be desolate and your cities a waste.

I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you. Your land will be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.

34 T hen shall the land enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies’ land; then shall the land rest, to enjoy and receive payments for its sabbaths.

Then the land will enjoy its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies’ land. Even then the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.

35 A s long as it lies desolate and waste, it shall have rest, the rest it did not have in your sabbaths when you dwelt upon it.

As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it didn’t have in your Sabbaths, when you lived on it.

36 A s for those who are left of you, I will send dejection (lack of courage, a faintness) into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; the sound of a driven leaf shall put them to hasty and tumultuous flight, and they shall flee as if from the sword, and fall when no one pursues them.

“‘As for those of you who are left, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword. They will fall when no one pursues.

37 T hey shall stumble over one another as if to escape a sword when no one pursues them; and you shall have no power to stand before your enemies.

They will stumble over one another, as it were before the sword, when no one pursues. You will have no power to stand before your enemies.

38 Y ou shall perish among the nations; the land of your enemies shall eat you up.

You will perish among the nations. The land of your enemies will eat you up.

39 A nd those of you who are left shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away like them.

Those of you who are left will pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers they shall pine away with them.

40 B ut if they confess their own and their fathers’ iniquity in their treachery which they committed against Me—and also that because they walked contrary to Me

“‘If they confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me, and also that, because they walked contrary to me,

41 I also walked contrary to them and brought them into the land of their enemies—if then their uncircumcised hearts are humbled and they then accept the punishment for their iniquity,

I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity;

42 T hen will I remember My covenant with Jacob, My covenant with Isaac, and My covenant with Abraham, and remember the land.

then I will remember my covenant with Jacob; and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham; and I will remember the land.

43 B ut the land shall be left behind them and shall enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them; and they shall accept the punishment for their sins and make amends because they despised and rejected My ordinances and their soul scorned and rejected My statutes.

The land also will be left by them, and will enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them: and they will accept the punishment of their iniquity; because, even because they rejected my ordinances, and their soul abhorred my statutes.

44 A nd yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not spurn and cast them away, neither will I despise and abhor them to destroy them utterly and to break My covenant with them, for I am the Lord their God.

Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them; for I am Yahweh their God;

45 B ut 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.

but I will for their sake remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. I am Yahweh.’”

46 T hese are the statutes, ordinances, and laws which the Lord made between Him and the Israelites on Mount Sinai through Moses.

These are the statutes, ordinances and laws, which Yahweh made between him and the children of Israel in Mount Sinai by Moses.