Leviticus 26
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Leviticus 26:2-33

2Keep my Sabbaths and revere my sanctuary; I am the Lord.

3“If you follow my statutes and faithfully observe my commands,

4I will give you rain at the right time, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.

5Your threshing will continue until grape harvest, and the grape harvest will continue until sowing time; you will have plenty of food to eat and live securely in your land.

6I will give peace to the land, and you will lie down with nothing to frighten you. I will remove dangerous animals from the land, and no sword will pass through your land.

7You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall before you by the sword.

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

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

10You will eat the old grain of the previous year and will clear out the old to make room for the new.

11I will place my residence among you, and I will not reject you.

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 of the land of Egypt, so that you would no longer be their slaves. I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to live in freedom.

14“But if you do not obey me and observe all these commands —

15if you reject my statutes and despise my ordinances, and do not observe all my commands — and break my covenant,

16then I will do this to you: I will bring terror on you — wasting disease and fever that will cause your eyes to fail and your life to ebb away. You will sow your seed in vain because your enemies will eat it.

17I will turn against you, so that you will be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee even though no one is pursuing you.

18“But if after these things you will not obey me, I will proceed to discipline you seven times for your sins.

19I will break down your strong pride. I will make your sky like iron and your land like bronze,

20and your strength will be used up for nothing. Your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit.

21“If you act with hostility toward me and are unwilling to obey me, I will multiply your plagues seven times for your sins.

22I will send wild animals against you that will deprive you of your children, ravage your livestock, and reduce your numbers until your roads are deserted.

23“If in spite of these things you do not accept my discipline, but act with hostility toward me,

24then I will act with hostility toward you; I also will strike you seven times for your sins.

25I will bring a sword against you to execute the vengeance of the covenant. Though you withdraw into your cities, I will send a pestilence among you, and you will be delivered into enemy hands.

26When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and ration out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.

27“And if in spite of this you do not obey me but act with hostility toward me,

28I will act with furious hostility toward you; I will also discipline you seven times for your sins.

29You will eat the flesh of your sons; you will eat the flesh of your daughters.

30I will destroy your high places, cut down your shrines, and heap your lifeless bodies on the lifeless bodies of your idols; I will reject you.

31I will reduce your cities to ruins and devastate your sanctuaries. I will not smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices.

32I also will devastate the land, so that your enemies who come to live there will be appalled by it.

33But I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw a sword to chase after you. So your land will become desolate, and your cities will become ruins.

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