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| 1"'You must not make for yourselves idols, so you must not set up for yourselves a carved image or a pillar, and you must not place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down before it, for I am the LORD your God. | 1“You must not make idols for yourselves or set up a carved image or sacred pillar; you must not place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down to it. For I am the LORD your God. |
| 2You must keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary. I am the LORD. | 2You must keep My Sabbaths and have reverence for My sanctuary. I am the LORD. |
| 3"'If you walk in my statutes and are sure to obey my commandments, | 3If you follow My statutes and carefully keep My commandments, |
| 4I will give you your rains in their time so that the land will give its yield and the trees of the field will produce their fruit. | 4I will give you rains in their season, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their fruit. |
| 5Threshing season will extend for you until the season for harvesting grapes, and the season for harvesting grapes will extend until sowing season, so you will eat your bread until you are satisfied, and you will live securely in your land. | 5Your threshing will continue until the grape harvest, and the grape harvest will continue until sowing time; you will have your fill of food to eat and will dwell securely in your land. |
| 6I will grant peace in the land so that you will lie down to sleep without anyone terrifying you. I will remove harmful animals from the land, and no sword of war will pass through your land. | 6And I will give peace to the land, and you will lie down with nothing to fear. I will rid the land of dangerous animals, and no sword will pass through your land. |
| 7You will pursue your enemies and they will fall before you by the sword. | 7You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall by the sword before you. |
| 8Five of you will pursue a hundred, and a hundred of you will pursue ten thousand, and your enemies will fall before you by the sword. | 8Five of you will pursue a hundred, and a hundred of you will pursue ten thousand, and your enemies will fall by the sword before you. |
| 9I will turn to you, make you fruitful, multiply you, and maintain my covenant with you. | 9I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will establish My covenant with you. |
| 10You will still be eating stored produce from the previous year and will have to clean out what is stored from the previous year to make room for new. | 10You will still be eating the old supply of grain when you need to clear it out to make room for the new. |
| 11"'I will put my tabernacle in your midst and I will not abhor you. | 11And I will make My dwelling place among you, and My soul will not despise you. |
| 12I will walk among you, and I will be your God and you will be my people. | 12I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be My people. |
| 13I am the LORD your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt, from being their slaves, and I broke the bars of your yoke and caused you to walk upright. | 13I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so that you would no longer be slaves to the Egyptians. I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to walk in uprightness. |
| 14"'If, however, you do not obey me and keep all these commandments-- | 14If, however, you fail to obey Me and to carry out all these commandments, |
| 15if you reject my statutes and abhor my regulations so that you do not keep all my commandments and you break my covenant-- | 15and if you reject My statutes, despise My ordinances, and neglect to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant, |
| 16I for my part will do this to you: I will inflict horror on you, consumption and fever, which diminish eyesight and drain away the vitality of life. You will sow your seed in vain because your enemies will eat it. | 16then this is what I will do to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting disease, and fever that will destroy your sight and drain your life. You will sow your seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it. |
| 17I will set my face against you. You will be struck down before your enemies, those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when there is no one pursuing you. | 17And I will set My face against you, so that you will be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when no one pursues you. |
| 18"'If, in spite of all these things, you do not obey me, I will discipline you seven times more on account of your sins. | 18And if after all this you will not obey Me, I will proceed to punish you sevenfold for your sins. |
| 19I will break your strong pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze. | 19I will break down your stubborn pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze, |
| 20Your strength will be used up in vain, your land will not give its yield, and the trees of the land will not produce their fruit. | 20and your strength will be spent in vain. For your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit. |
| 21"'If you walk in hostility against me and are not willing to obey me, I will increase your affliction seven times according to your sins. | 21If you walk in hostility toward Me and refuse to obey Me, I will multiply your plagues seven times, according to your sins. |
| 22I will send the wild animals against you and they will bereave you of your children, annihilate your cattle, and diminish your population so that your roads will become deserted. | 22I will send wild animals against you to rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and reduce your numbers, until your roads lie desolate. |
| 23"'If in spite of these things you do not allow yourselves to be disciplined and you walk in hostility against me, | 23And if in spite of these things you do not accept My discipline, but continue to walk in hostility toward Me, |
| 24I myself will also walk in hostility against you and strike you seven times on account of your sins. | 24then I will act with hostility toward you, and I will strike you sevenfold for your sins. |
| 25I will bring on you an avenging sword, a covenant vengeance. Although you will gather together into your cities, I will send pestilence among you and you will be given into enemy hands. | 25And I will bring a sword against you to execute the vengeance of the covenant. Though you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague among you, and you will be delivered into the hand of the enemy. |
| 26When I break off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven; they will ration your bread by weight, and you will eat and not be satisfied. | 26When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied. |
| 27"'If in spite of this you do not obey me but walk in hostility against me, | 27But if in spite of all this you do not obey Me, but continue to walk in hostility toward Me, |
| 28I will walk in hostile rage against you and I myself will also discipline you seven times on account of your sins. | 28then I will walk in fury against you, and I, even I, will punish you sevenfold for your sins. |
| 29You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters. | 29You will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters. |
| 30I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars, and I will stack your dead bodies on top of the lifeless bodies of your idols. I will abhor you. | 30I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your lifeless bodies on the lifeless remains of your idols; and My soul will despise you. |
| 31I will lay your cities waste and make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will refuse to smell your soothing aromas. | 31I will reduce your cities to rubble and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will refuse to smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices. |
| 32I myself will make the land desolate and your enemies who live in it will be appalled. | 32And I will lay waste the land, so that your enemies who dwell in it will be appalled. |
| 33I will scatter you among the nations and unsheathe the sword after you, so your land will become desolate and your cities will become a waste. | 33But I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you as your land becomes desolate and your cities are laid waste. |
| 34"'Then the land will make up for its Sabbaths all the days it lies desolate while you are in the land of your enemies; then the land will rest and make up its Sabbaths. | 34Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths all the days it lies desolate, while you are in the land of your enemies. At that time the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths. |
| 35All the days of the desolation it will have the rest it did not have on your Sabbaths when you lived on it. | 35As long as it lies desolate, the land will have the rest it did not receive during the Sabbaths when you lived in it. |
| 36"'As for the ones who remain among you, I will bring despair into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a blowing leaf will pursue them, and they will flee as one who flees the sword and fall down even though there is no pursuer. | 36As for those of you who survive, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, so that even the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to flight. And they will flee as one flees the sword, and fall when no one pursues them. |
| 37They will stumble over each other as those who flee before a sword, though there is no pursuer, and there will be no one to take a stand for you before your enemies. | 37They will stumble over one another as before the sword, though no one is behind them. So you will not be able to stand against your enemies. |
| 38You will perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will consume you. | 38You will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will consume you. |
| 39"'As for the ones who remain among you, they will rot away because of their iniquity in the lands of your enemies, and they will also rot away because of their ancestors' iniquities which are with them. | 39Those of you who survive in the lands of your enemies will waste away in their iniquity and will decay in the sins of their fathers. |
| 40However, when they confess their iniquity and their ancestors' iniquity which they committed by trespassing against me, by which they also walked in hostility against me | 40But if they will confess their iniquity and that of their fathers in the unfaithfulness that they practiced against Me, by which they have also walked in hostility toward Me— |
| 41(and I myself will walk in hostility against them and bring them into the land of their enemies), and then their uncircumcised hearts become humbled and they make up for their iniquity, | 41and I acted with hostility toward them and brought them into the land of their enemies—and if their uncircumcised hearts will be humbled and they will make amends for their iniquity, |
| 42I will remember my covenant with Jacob and also my covenant with Isaac and also my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land. | 42then I will remember My covenant with Jacob and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land. |
| 43The land will be abandoned by them in order that it may make up for its Sabbaths while it is made desolate without them, and they will make up for their iniquity because they have rejected my regulations and have abhorred my statutes. | 43For the land will be abandoned by them, and it will enjoy its Sabbaths by lying desolate without them. And they will pay the penalty for their iniquity, because they rejected My ordinances and abhorred My statutes. |
| 44In spite of this, however, when they are in the land of their enemies I will not reject them and abhor them to make a complete end of them, to break my covenant with them, for I am the LORD their God. | 44Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject or despise them so as to destroy them and break My covenant with them; for I am the LORD their God. |
| 45I will remember for them the covenant with their ancestors whom I brought out from the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations to be their God. I am the LORD.'" | 45But for their sake I will remember the covenant with their fathers, 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, regulations, and instructions which the LORD established between himself and the Israelites at Mount Sinai through Moses. | 46These are the statutes, ordinances, and laws that the LORD established between Himself and the Israelites through Moses on Mount Sinai. |
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