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 do not make to yourselves idols; and graven image or standing image ye do not set up to yourselves; and a stone of imagery ye do not put in your land, to bow yourselves to it; for I Jehovah your God.

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

`My sabbaths ye do keep, and My sanctuary ye do reverence; I Jehovah.

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

`If in My statutes ye walk, and My commands ye keep, and have done 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 have given your rains in their season, and the land hath given her produce, and the tree of the field doth give its 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 reached to you hath the threshing, the gathering, and the gathering doth reach the sowing-; and ye have eaten your bread to satiety, and have dwelt confidently in your land.

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.

`And I have given peace in the land, and ye have lain down, and there is none causing trembling; and I have caused evil beasts to cease out of the land, and the sword doth not pass over into 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 have pursued your enemies, and they have fallen 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 have pursued a hundred, and a hundred of you do pursue a myriad; and your enemies have fallen before you by the sword.

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

`And I have turned unto you, and have made you fruitful, and have multiplied you, and have established My covenant with you;

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

and ye have eaten old, and the old because of the new ye bring out.

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

`And I have given My tabernacle in your midst, and My soul doth not loathe you;

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

and I have walked habitually in your midst, and have become your God, and ye -- ye are become 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 Jehovah your God, who have brought you out of the land of the Egyptians, from being their servants; and I break the bars of your yoke, and cause you to go erect.

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

`And if ye do not hearken to Me, and do not all these commands;

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 at My statutes ye kick, and if My judgments your soul loathe, so as not to do all My commands -- to your breaking 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 do this to you, and I have appointed over you trouble, the consumption, and the burning fever, consuming eyes, and causing pain of soul; and your seed in vain ye have sowed, and your enemies have eaten 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 have set My face against you, and ye have been smitten before your enemies; and those hating you have ruled over you, and ye have fled, and there is none pursuing 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 unto these ye hearken not to Me, -- then I have added to chastise you seven times 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 have broken the pride of your strength, and have made your heavens as iron, and your earth as brass;

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 consumed hath been your strength in vain, and your land doth not give her produce, and the tree of the land doth not give its fruit.

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 with Me opposition, and are not willing to hearken to Me, then I have added to you a plague seven times, 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.

and sent against you the beast of the field, and it hath bereaved you; and I have cut off your cattle, and have made you few, and your ways have been desolate.

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

`And if by these ye are not instructed by Me, and have walked with Me opposition,

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

then I have walked -- I also -- with you in opposition, and have smitten you, even I, 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 have brought in on you a sword, executing the vengeance of a covenant; and ye have been gathered unto your cities, and I have sent pestilence into your midst, and ye have been given into the hand of an 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.

`In My breaking to you the staff of bread, then ten women have baked your bread in one oven, and have given back your bread by weight; and ye have eaten, and are not satisfied.

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

`And if for this ye hearken not to Me, and have walked with Me in opposition,

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

then I have walked with you in the fury of opposition, and have chastised you, even I, seven times for your sins.

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

`And ye have eaten the flesh of your sons; even flesh of your daughters ye do 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 have destroyed your high places, and cut down your images, and have put your carcases on the carcases of your idols, and My soul hath loathed you;

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

and I have made your cities a waste, and have made desolate your sanctuaries, and I smell not at your sweet fragrances;

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

and I have made desolate the land, and your enemies, who are dwelling in it, have been 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 you I scatter among nations, and have drawn out after you a sword, and your land hath been a desolation, and your cities are a 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 doth the land enjoy its sabbaths -- all the days of the desolation, and ye in the land of your enemies -- then doth the land rest, and hath enjoyed its 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 days of the desolation it resteth that which it hath not rested in your sabbaths in your dwelling on 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 those who are left of you -- I have also brought a faintness into their heart in the lands of their enemies, and the sound of a leaf driven away hath pursued them, and they have fled -- flight from a sword -- and they have fallen, and there is none pursuing.

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 have stumbled one on another, as from the face of a sword, and there is none pursuing, and ye have no standing before your enemies,

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

and ye have perished among the nations, and the land of your enemies hath consumed you.

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 who are left of you -- they consume away in their iniquity, in the lands of your enemies; and also in the iniquities of their fathers, with them they consume away.

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 have confessed their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they have trespassed against Me, and also, that they have walked with Me, in opposition,

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,

also I walk to them in opposition, and have brought them into the land of their enemies -- or then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and then they accept the punishment 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.

then I have remembered My covenant Jacob, and also My covenant Isaac, and also My covenant Abraham I remember, and the land I remember.

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.

`And -- the land is left of them, and doth enjoy its sabbaths, in the desolation without them, and they accept the punishment of their iniquity, because, even because, against My judgments they have kicked, and My statutes hath their soul loathed,

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 also even this, in their being in the land of their enemies, I have not rejected them, nor have I loathed them, to consume them, to break My covenant with them; for I Jehovah 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.’”

then I have remembered for them the covenant of the ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt before the eyes of the nations to become their God; I Jehovah.'

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

These the statutes, and the judgments, and the laws, which Jehovah hath given between Him and the sons of Israel, in mount Sinai, by the hand of Moses.