Leviticus · Berean Standard Bible
Leviticus 26 Berean Standard Bible
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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.
1 “‘You shall make for yourselves no idols, and you shall not raise up a carved image or a pillar, and you shall not place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it; for I am Yahweh your God.
2 You must keep My Sabbaths and have reverence for My sanctuary. I am the LORD.
2 “‘You shall keep my Sabbaths, and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am Yahweh.
3 If you follow My statutes and carefully keep My commandments,
3 “‘If you walk in my statutes and keep my commandments, and do them,
4 I will give you rains in their season, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.
4 then 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.
5 Your 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.
5 Your threshing shall continue until the vintage, and the vintage shall continue until the sowing time. You shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.
6 And 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.
6 “‘I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and no one will make you afraid. I will remove evil animals out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.
7 You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall by the sword before you.
7 You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.
8 Five 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.
8 Five 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 will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will establish My covenant with you.
9 “‘I will have respect for you, make you fruitful, multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you.
10 You will still be eating the old supply of grain when you need to clear it out to make room for the new.
10 You shall eat old supplies long kept, and you shall move out the old because of the new.
11 And I will make My dwelling place among you, and My soul will not despise you.
11 I will set my tent among you, and my soul won’t abhor you.
12 I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be My people.
12 I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you will be my people.
13 I 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.
13 I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves. I have broken the bars of your yoke, and made you walk upright.
14 If, however, you fail to obey Me and to carry out all these commandments,
14 “‘But if you will not listen to me, and will not do all these commandments,
15 and if you reject My statutes, despise My ordinances, and neglect to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant,
15 and if you shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhors my ordinances, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant,
16 then 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.
16 I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away. You will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.
17 And 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.
17 I will set my face against you, and you will be struck before your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you; and you will flee when no one pursues you.
18 And if after all this you will not obey Me, I will proceed to punish you sevenfold for your sins.
18 “‘If you in spite of these things will not listen to me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins.
19 I will break down your stubborn pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze,
19 I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron, and your soil like bronze.
20 and 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.
20 Your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won’t yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruit.
21 If you walk in hostility toward Me and refuse to obey Me, I will multiply your plagues seven times, according to your sins.
21 “‘If you walk contrary to me, and won’t listen to me, then I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to your sins.
22 I will send wild animals against you to rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and reduce your numbers, until your roads lie desolate.
22 I will send the wild animals among you, which will rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number. Your roads will become desolate.
23 And if in spite of these things you do not accept My discipline, but continue to walk in hostility toward Me,
23 “‘If by these things you won’t be turned back to me, but will walk contrary to me,
24 then I will act with hostility toward you, and I will strike you sevenfold for your sins.
24 then I will also walk contrary to you; and I will strike you, even I, seven times for your sins.
25 And 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.
25 I will bring a sword upon you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant. You will be gathered together within your cities, and I will send the pestilence among you. You will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
26 When 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.
26 When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight. You shall eat, and not be satisfied.
27 But if in spite of all this you do not obey Me, but continue to walk in hostility toward Me,
27 “‘If you in spite of this won’t listen to me, but walk contrary to me,
28 then I will walk in fury against you, and I, even I, will punish you sevenfold for your sins.
28 then I will walk contrary to you in wrath. I will also chastise you seven times for your sins.
29 You will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters.
29 You will eat the flesh of your sons, and you will eat the flesh of your daughters.
30 I 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.
30 I will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you.
31 I will reduce your cities to rubble and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will refuse to smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices.
31 I will lay your cities waste, and will bring your sanctuaries to desolation. I will not take delight in the sweet fragrance of your offerings.
32 And I will lay waste the land, so that your enemies who dwell in it will be appalled.
32 I will bring the land into desolation, and your enemies who dwell in it will be astonished at it.
33 But 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.
33 I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you. Your land will be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.
34 Then 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.
34 Then the land will enjoy its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies’ land. Even then the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.
35 As long as it lies desolate, the land will have the rest it did not receive during the Sabbaths when you lived in it.
35 As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it didn’t have in your Sabbaths when you lived on it.
36 As 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.
36 “‘As for those of you who are left, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword. They will fall when no one pursues.
37 They 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.
37 They will stumble over one another, as it were before the sword, when no one pursues. You will have no power to stand before your enemies.
38 You will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will consume you.
38 You will perish among the nations. The land of your enemies will eat you up.
39 Those 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.
39 Those of you who are left will pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers they shall pine away with them.
40 But 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—
40 “‘If they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me; and also that because they walked contrary to me,
41 and 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,
41 I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity,
42 then I will remember My covenant with Jacob and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.
42 then I will remember my covenant with Jacob, my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham; and I will remember the land.
43 For 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.
43 The land also will be left by them, and will enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them; and they will accept the punishment of their iniquity because they rejected my ordinances, and their soul abhorred my statutes.
44 Yet 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.
44 Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly and to break my covenant with them; for I am Yahweh their God.
45 But 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.”
45 But I will for their sake remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. I am Yahweh.’”
46 These are the statutes, ordinances, and laws that the LORD established between Himself and the Israelites through Moses on Mount Sinai.
46 These are the statutes, ordinances, and laws, which Yahweh made between him and the children of Israel in Mount Sinai by Moses.
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Moses
Drawn from the Nile, he led Israel out of Egypt and received God's Law.
Cited in the guide: Exodus 2–Deuteronomy 34
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- 1 Leviticus 19:4; Deuteronomy 27:15; Numbers 33:52; Exodus 23:24; Exodus 20:4–5
- 2 Leviticus 19:30
- 3 Isaiah 1:19; Deuteronomy 28:1–14; Deuteronomy 11:13–15; Isaiah 48:18–19; Psalm 81:12–16
- 4 Psalm 67:6; Zechariah 8:12; Isaiah 30:23; Deuteronomy 28:12; Ezekiel 36:30
- 5 Amos 9:13; Joel 2:26; Joel 2:19; Leviticus 25:18–19; Deuteronomy 11:15
- 6 Isaiah 35:9; Zephaniah 3:13; Psalm 147:14; Jeremiah 30:10; Hosea 2:18
- 8 Joshua 23:10; Deuteronomy 28:7; Deuteronomy 32:30; 1 Chronicles 11:20; Numbers 14:9
- 9 Genesis 17:6–7; Nehemiah 9:23; Psalm 107:38; Ezekiel 16:62; Isaiah 55:3
- 10 Leviticus 25:22; Luke 12:17; 2 Kings 19:29
- 11 Exodus 25:8; Revelation 21:3; Psalm 132:13–14; Exodus 29:45; Ephesians 2:22
- 12 2 Corinthians 6:16; Jeremiah 30:22; Jeremiah 7:23; Exodus 6:7; Joel 2:27
- 13 Ezekiel 34:27; Psalm 116:16; Exodus 20:2; 1 Corinthians 6:19–20; Leviticus 25:38
- 14 Deuteronomy 28:15–68; Lamentations 2:17; Leviticus 26:18; Jeremiah 17:27; Malachi 2:2
- 15 Deuteronomy 31:16; 2 Kings 17:15; Jeremiah 11:10; Zechariah 7:11–13; Ezekiel 16:59
- 16 Job 31:8; Micah 6:15; Jeremiah 5:17; 1 Samuel 2:33; Deuteronomy 28:32–35
- 17 Leviticus 17:10; Deuteronomy 28:25; Leviticus 26:36–37; Proverbs 28:1; Psalm 53:5
- 18 Leviticus 26:21; 1 Samuel 2:5; Leviticus 26:28; Leviticus 26:24; Daniel 3:19
- 19 Deuteronomy 28:23; 1 Kings 17:1; Isaiah 25:11; Luke 4:25; Zephaniah 3:11
- 20 Deuteronomy 11:17; Psalm 127:1; Isaiah 49:4; Leviticus 26:4; Habakkuk 2:13
- 21 Leviticus 26:18; Leviticus 26:27
- 22 Ezekiel 14:15; Deuteronomy 32:24; Judges 5:6; Zechariah 7:14; Ezekiel 5:17
- 23 Jeremiah 5:3; Jeremiah 2:30; Amos 4:6–12; Ezekiel 24:13–14; Leviticus 26:21
- 24 Psalm 18:26; 2 Samuel 22:27; Job 9:4; Isaiah 63:10
- 25 Numbers 14:12; Ezekiel 5:17; Deuteronomy 28:21; Ezekiel 29:8; Ezekiel 33:2
- 26 Micah 6:14; Psalm 105:16; Isaiah 3:1; Ezekiel 5:16; Haggai 1:6
- 27 Leviticus 26:21; Leviticus 26:24
- 28 Jeremiah 21:5; Isaiah 59:18; Ezekiel 5:15; Ezekiel 5:13; Ezekiel 8:18
- 29 Matthew 24:19; Ezekiel 5:10; Deuteronomy 28:53–57; Lamentations 4:10; Lamentations 2:20
- 30 2 Kings 23:20; Isaiah 27:9; Ezekiel 6:3–6; Ezekiel 6:13; 2 Chronicles 34:3–7
- 31 Nehemiah 2:3; Psalm 74:3–8; Hebrews 10:26; Genesis 8:21; Lamentations 2:7
- 32 Jeremiah 9:11; Jeremiah 18:16; Jeremiah 19:8; Jeremiah 25:11; Ezekiel 5:15
- 33 Deuteronomy 4:27; Zechariah 7:14; Ezekiel 20:23; Ezekiel 22:15; Deuteronomy 28:64–66
- 34 2 Chronicles 36:21; Leviticus 25:2–4; Leviticus 26:43; Leviticus 25:10
- 35 Isaiah 24:5–6; Romans 8:22
- 36 Ezekiel 21:7; Isaiah 30:17; Leviticus 26:17; Ezekiel 21:15; Joshua 2:9–11
- 37 Judges 2:14; Joshua 7:12–13; 1 Samuel 14:15–16; Isaiah 10:4; Judges 7:22
- 38 Jeremiah 42:17–18; Isaiah 27:13; Deuteronomy 28:68; Deuteronomy 28:48; Deuteronomy 4:26–27
- 39 Ezekiel 4:17; Ezekiel 24:23; Ezekiel 33:10; Exodus 20:5; Deuteronomy 28:65
- 40 Proverbs 28:13; Nehemiah 9:2–5; 1 John 1:8–10; Numbers 5:7; Hosea 5:15–6:2
- 41 Ezekiel 44:7; Acts 7:51; 2 Chronicles 12:6–7; Jeremiah 4:4; Jeremiah 9:25–26
- 42 Exodus 2:24; Exodus 6:5; Ezekiel 16:60; Psalm 106:45; Psalm 136:23
- 43 Leviticus 26:15; Romans 8:7; Leviticus 26:34–35; Psalm 50:17; 2 Chronicles 33:12
- 44 Romans 11:2; Nehemiah 9:31; 2 Kings 13:23; Deuteronomy 4:29–31; Psalm 94:14
- 45 Leviticus 25:38; Ezekiel 20:22; Ezekiel 20:9; Psalm 98:2–3; Leviticus 22:33
- 46 Leviticus 27:34; Deuteronomy 12:1; Deuteronomy 6:1; Deuteronomy 13:4; Leviticus 25:1
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