New English Translation
Leviticus 26:2-33
2You must keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary. I am the Lord.
3“‘If you walk in my statutes and are sure to obey 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.
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.
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.
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, and your enemies will fall before you by the sword.
9I will turn to you, make you fruitful, multiply you, and maintain 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.
11“‘I will put my tabernacle in your midst and I will not abhor you.
12I will walk among you, and I will 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.
14“‘If, however, you do not obey me and keep 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 –
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.
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.
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.
19I will break your strong 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.
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.
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.
23“‘If in spite of these things you do not allow yourselves to be disciplined and you walk in hostility against me,
24I myself will also walk in hostility against you and strike you seven times on account of 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.
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.
27“‘If in spite of this you do not obey me but walk in hostility against me,
28I will walk in hostile rage against you and I myself will also discipline you seven times on account of your sins.
29You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your 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.
31I will lay your cities waste and make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will refuse to smell your soothing aromas.
32I myself will make the land desolate and your enemies who live 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.
Commentaries on Leviticus 26
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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