1 ‘ Do not make gods for yourselves. Do not set up for yourselves something to look like a god or a holy object. Do not set up something cut from stone in your land to bow down to. For I am the Lord your God.

¶ Ye shall make no idols for yourselves nor graven image, neither shall you raise up a title, neither shall ye place any painted stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I AM your God.

2 K eep My Days of Rest and honor My holy place. I am the Lord.

Keep my sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.

3 I f you live by My Laws and do what I say,

If ye walk in my statutes and keep my commandments and do them,

4 I will give you rain at the right time. So the land will give its food and the trees will give their fruit.

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

5 T he crushing of your grain will last until the grapes are gathered. The grape gathering will last until the seeds are planted. You will eat your food until you are full, and be safe living in your land.

And your threshing shall last unto the vintage, and the vintage shall last unto the sowing time; and ye shall eat your bread to the full and dwell in your land safely.

6 I will give peace in the land. You will lie down and no one will make you afraid. I will make the land free from the danger of wild animals. And no sword will move through your land.

For I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and no one shall make you afraid; and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.

7 Y ou will go after those who hate you, and they will fall in front of you by the sword.

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

8 F ive of you will go after a hundred. A hundred of you will go after ten thousand. And those who hate you will fall in front of you by the sword.

And five of you shall chase one hundred, and one hundred of you shall put ten thousands to flight; and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.

9 I will care for you and give you many children. I will keep My agreement with you.

For I will return unto you and make you fruitful and multiply you and establish my covenant with you.

10 Y ou will eat last year’s food, and use it all because you will have new.

And ye shall eat old store and bring forth the old because of the new.

11 I will make My home among you. My soul will not turn away from you.

And I will set my dwelling among you, and my soul shall not abhor you.

12 I will walk among you and be your God. And you will be My people.

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

13 I am the Lord your God Who brought you out of the land of Egypt so you would not be their servants. I have broken loose the heavy load from your back and made you walk straight. Punishment to Those Who Do Not Obey

I AM your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their slaves; and I have broken the bands of your yoke and made you walk with your faces uplifted.

14 ‘ But if you do not obey Me and do not do all I say,

¶ But if ye will not hearken unto me and will not do all these my commandments;

15 i f you turn away from My Laws and do not want to do what I tell you to do, and do not do it, and so break My agreement,

and if ye shall despise my statutes or if your soul should abhor my rights so that ye will not do all my commandments but that ye break my covenant,

16 I will do this to you: I will bring upon you much fear, disease that destroys, and sickness that will waste away the eyes and make the body weak. You will plant your seeds for nothing, for those who hate you will eat it.

I also will do this unto you: I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague that shall consume the eyes and torment the soul, and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

17 I will turn against you so you will fall in front of those who fight you. Those who hate you will rule over you. You will run away when no one is coming after you.

And I will place my wrath upon you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies; those that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when no one pursues you.

18 I f after all of these things you still do not obey Me, I will punish you seven times more for your sins.

And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.

19 I will break the pride you have of your power. I will make your sky like iron and your earth like brass.

And I will break the pride of your stronghold, and I will make your heaven as iron and your earth as bronze.

20 Y ou will use your strength for nothing. For your land will not give food, and the trees of the land will not give fruit.

And your strength shall be spent in vain; for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.

21 ‘ If you act against Me and will not obey Me, I will bring you seven times more trouble than your sins.

And if ye walk contrary unto me and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.

22 I will let the wild animals loose among you. They will rob you of your children and destroy your cattle. They will make you few in number, so that your roads will be empty.

I will also send wild beasts among you which shall rapture your children and destroy your animals and make you few in number, and your ways shall be desolate.

23 ‘ If after these things you do not turn to Me, but still go against Me,

And if ye will not be corrected by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me,

24 t hen I will go against you. I Myself will punish you seven times for your sins.

then will I also walk contrary unto you and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.

25 I will bring a sword upon you that will punish you for breaking the agreement. I will send disease among you when you gather together in your cities. So you will be given into the hands of those who hate you.

And I will bring an avenging sword upon you, in vindication of the covenant; and ye shall gather together within your cities; but I will send pestilence among you, and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

26 W hen I take away your bread of life, ten women will make your bread in one stove. They will give out your bread by weight. And you will eat it and not be filled.

When I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight, and ye shall eat and not be satisfied.

27 ‘ If you still do not obey Me after all this, but go against Me,

And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me but walk contrary unto me,

28 t hen I will go against you with anger. I Myself will punish you seven times for your sins.

then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury, and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.

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

And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.

30 I will destroy your high places and cut down your altars of special perfume. I will throw your dead bodies on what is left of your gods. My soul will hate you.

And I will destroy your high places and cut down your images and cast your carcasses upon the carcasses of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.

31 I will destroy your cities also, and your holy places. I will not smell your pleasing smells.

And I will make your cities waste and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the aroma of your suave incense.

32 I will destroy the land, so those living in it who hate you will be filled with fear because of it.

And I will bring the land into desolation, and your enemies who dwell therein shall be astonished at it.

33 I will divide you among the nations and send the sword after you. Your land will be destroyed and your cities a waste.

And I will scatter you among the Gentiles and will draw out a sword after you, and your land shall be desolate and your cities waste.

34 ‘ Then the land will be like new because of its Days of Rest while it lies waste and you are in the land of those who hate you. Then the land will rest and have new life because of the Days of Rest.

Then shall the land rest for her sabbaths all the days that it lies desolate, while you are in your enemies’ land; even then shall the land rest and enjoy her sabbaths.

35 A s long as it lies waste it will have the rest it did not have on your Days of Rest, while you were living in it.

All the time that it shall be desolate, it shall rest that which it did not rest in your sabbaths when ye dwelt upon it.

36 O f those of you who are left in the lands of those who hate you, I will make their hearts weak. The sound of a leaf blown by the wind will make them run away even when no one is going after them. They will run away as if it were a sword, and they will fall.

And upon those that are left alive of you I will send such cowardice into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, that the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursue.

37 T hey will fall over each other as if running from the sword, when no one is going after them. You will have no strength to stand up in front of those who hate you.

And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursue; and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.

38 Y ou will die among the nations. The land of those who hate you will eat you up.

And ye shall perish among the Gentiles, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.

39 S o those of you who are left will waste away in the lands of those who hate you, because of their sins. Also because of the sins of their fathers, they will waste away with them.

And those that are left of you shall pine away for their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and for the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.

40 ‘ If they tell their sins and the sins of their fathers which they did when they were not faithful to Me and were against Me with anger,

¶ And they shall confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers for their trespass which they trespassed against me and that also they have walked contrary unto me,

41 ( I also was angry with them and brought them into the land of those who hate them) if their sinful heart loses its pride and they are willing to turn away from their sin,

and that I also have walked contrary unto them and have brought them into the land of their enemies; and then their uncircumcised hearts shall be humbled, and they shall plead because of their iniquity;

42 I will remember My agreement with Jacob, My agreement with Isaac, and My agreement with Abraham. And I will remember the land.

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

43 B ut the land will be left behind them and become better with its Days of Rest while it lies empty without them. During this time they will turn away from their sin because they had not done what I told them to do and their soul hated My Laws.

That the land shall be without them and shall rest her sabbaths, being desolate because of them; and they shall plead because of their iniquity because they despised my rights and their soul abhorred my statutes.

44 Y et even when they are in the land of those who hate them, I will not turn away from them. I will not hate them enough to destroy them and break My agreement with them. For I am the Lord their God.

And yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them to destroy them utterly and to break my covenant with them; for I AM their God.

45 B ut because of them I will remember the agreement with their fathers, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the eyes of the nations, to be their God. I am the Lord.’”

But I will remember them because of the old covenant, when I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the Gentiles, that I might be their God: I am the LORD.

46 T hese are the Laws which the Lord made between Himself and the people of Israel through Moses at Mount Sinai.

These are the statutes and rights and laws, which the LORD established between him and the sons of Israel in Mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.