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1"You are not to make worthless idols, images, or pillars for yourselves, nor set up for yourselves carved images to bow down to them in the land, because I am the LORD your God.

1“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.

2"You are to keep my Sabbath and fear my sanctuary. I am the LORD.

2You shall keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.

3"If you live by my statutes, obey my commands, and observe them,

3“If you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them,

4then I'll send your rain in its season so that the land will yield its produce and the trees of the field will yield their fruit.

4then 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.

5Threshing will extend to the time of vintage and the vintage will extend to the time of sowing, so that you'll eat your bread to your satisfaction and live securely in your land.

5Your 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.

6I'll give peace in the land so that you'll lie down without fear. I'll remove wild beasts from the land, and not even war will come to your land.

6I 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.

7Instead, you'll pursue your enemies and they'll die by the sword before you.

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

8Five of you will chase a hundred, a hundred of you will chase ten thousand, and your enemies will fall by the sword before you.

8Five 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"I'll look after you, ensuring that you'll be fruitful. I'll increase your number and keep my covenant with you.

9I will turn to you and make you fruitful and multiply you and will confirm my covenant with you.

10When you have consumed what was stored of the old, then you'll take out the old and replace it with what's new.

10You shall eat old store long kept, and you shall clear out the old to make way for the new.

11I'll set up my tent in your midst and I won't loathe you.

11I will make my dwelling among you, and my soul shall not abhor you.

12I'll walk among you. I will be your God, and you'll be my people.

12And I will walk among you and will be your God, and you shall be my people.

13I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so that you will no longer be their slaves, since I've broken their oppressive yoke upon you to make you walk upright."

13I 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.

14"But if you won't listen to me and obey all these commands,

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

15and if you refuse my statutes, loathe my ordinances, and fail to carry out all of my commands, thereby breaching my covenant,

15if you spurn my statutes, and if your soul abhors my rules, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant,

16then I will certainly do this to you: I'll appoint sudden terror to infect you like tuberculosis and fever. Your eyes will fail and your life will waste away. You'll plant in vain, because your enemies will consume what you plant.

16then 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.

17I'll set my face against you so that you'll be defeated before your enemies. Those who hate you will have dominion over you and you'll keep fleeing even when no one is pursuing you.

17I 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.

18"If, despite all of this, you still don't listen to me, then I'll punish you seven times more on account of your sins.

18And if in spite of this you will not listen to me, then I will discipline you again sevenfold for your sins,

19I'll break your mighty pride. I'll make the heavens to be like iron and the ground like bronze.

19and I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze.

20Your strength will be spent in vain, because your land won't yield its produce and the trees of the land won't yield their fruit.

20And 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"If you live life contrary to me and remain unwilling to listen to me, then I'll add to your wounds seven times more on account of your sins.

21“Then if you walk contrary to me and will not listen to me, I will continue striking you, sevenfold for your sins.

22I'll send wild beasts against you from the open country to deprive you of your children, destroy your cattle, and decrease your number so that your roads become desolate.

22And 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.

23"If, despite these things, you still won't return to me, but live life contrary to me,

23“And if by this discipline you are not turned to me but walk contrary to me,

24then I'll certainly oppose you. I'll take vengeance against you seven fold on account of your sins.

24then I also will walk contrary to you, and I myself will strike you sevenfold for your sins.

25I'll bring the sword against you to execute the vengeance of my covenant. When you gather in your cities, I'll send a pestilence. As a result, you'll be delivered into the control of your enemies.

25And 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.

26When I destroy the source of your bread, ten women will bake bread in one oven. Then they'll return back your bread by weight. You'll eat but won't be satisfied.

26When 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.

27"If, after all of this time, you don't listen to me, but instead live life contrary to me,

27“But if in spite of this you will not listen to me, but walk contrary to me,

28I'll oppose you with vicious rage. Indeed, I myself will punish you seven fold on account of your sins.

28then I will walk contrary to you in fury, and I myself will discipline you sevenfold for your sins.

29At that time, you'll eat the flesh of your sons and you'll eat the flesh of your daughters.

29You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters.

30I'll destroy your high places and cut down your sun pillars. Then I'll cast your dead bodies on top of the bodies of your idols. I'll loathe you.

30And 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.

31I'll lay your cities to waste and destroy your sanctuaries so I don't have to smell the scent of your soothing odors.

31And I will lay your cities waste and will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your pleasing aromas.

32I'll make the land so desolate that your enemies who live in it will be astonished."

32And I myself will devastate the land, so that your enemies who settle in it shall be appalled at it.

33"I'll scatter you among the nations and draw the sword after you so that your land becomes desolate and your towns become ruins.

33And 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.

34Then the land will finally be pleased with its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate while you are in the land of your enemies. At that time, the land will rest and take its Sabbaths.

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.

35As long as it lies desolate, it will have rest that it will not have had during your Sabbaths when you were living in it.

35As 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.

36"As for the remnants among you, I'll bring despair in their hearts in the land of their enemies so that even the sound of a blown leaf will chase them and they flee as though pursued by the sword and fall when no one is pursuing.

36And 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.

37They'll stumble over each other as though fleeing before the sword, even though no one is pursuing. "You won't have power to resist your enemies.

37They 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.

38You'll perish among the nations and the land of your enemies will consume you.

38And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.

39The remnants among you will waste away in the land of your enemies due to their iniquity. Indeed, they'll also waste away on account of the iniquities of their ancestors with them."

39And 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.

40"Nevertheless, when they confess their iniquity, the iniquity of their ancestors, and their unfaithfulness by which they acted unfaithfully against me by living life contrary to me—

40“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,

41causing me to oppose them and take them to the land of their enemies so that the uncircumcised foreskin of their hearts can be humbled and so that they accept the punishment of their iniquity—

41so 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,

42then I'll remember my covenant with Jacob, my covenant with Isaac, and my covenant with Abraham. I'll also remember the land.

42then 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.

43They will leave the land so it can rest while it lies desolate without them. That's when they'll receive the punishment of their iniquity, because indeed they will have rejected my ordinances and despised my statutes.

43But 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.

44Yet, despite all of these things, when they're in the land of their enemies, I won't reject or despise them so as to completely destroy them and by doing so violate my covenant with them, because I am the LORD their God.

44Yet 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.

45Instead, on account of them, I'll remember my covenant with their ancestors when I brought them out of the land of Egypt right before the eyes of the nations, so that I could be their God. I am the LORD."

45But 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.”

46These are the statutes, ordinances, and laws that the LORD made between himself and the Israelis on Mount Sinai, as recorded by the hand of Moses.

46These are the statutes and rules and laws that the LORD made between himself and the people of Israel through Moses on Mount Sinai.

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