LEVIT. XXVI:1-39-B. C. 1491 1 Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God. 2 Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD. 3 If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them; 4 Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. multiply you, and establish my covenant with you. 10 And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new. 11 And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you. 12 And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people. 13I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright. 14 But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments; 5 And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the 15 And if ye shall despise my full, and dwell in your land safely. statutes, or if your soul abhor my 6 And I will give peace in the judgments, so that ye will not do land, and ye shall lie down, and all my commandments, but that none shall make you afraid and ye break my covenant: I will rid evil beasts out of the 16I also will do this unto you; land, neither shall the sword go I will even appoint over you terthrough your land. ror, consumption, and the burning 7 And ye shall chase your ene-ague, that shall consume the eyes, mies, and they shall fall before and cause sorrow of heart; and ye you by the sword. shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. 8 And five of you shall chase an undred, and an hundred of you hall put ten thousand to flight: nd your enemies shall fall before ou by the sword. 17 And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth 9 For I will have respect unto ou, and make you fruitful, and you. * 18 And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins. 19 And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass: 26 And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied. 27 And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me; 20 And your strength shall be spent in vain for your land shall* 28 Then I will walk contrary unnot yield her increase, neither shall to you also in fury; and I, even I. the trees of the land yield their will chastise you seven times for fruits. your sins. * 21 And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins. 22 I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate. 29 And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat. 30 And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images. and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you. 31 And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours. 32 And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it. 23 And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me; * 24 Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins. 25 And I will bring a sword up-† 33 AND I WILL SCATTER on you, that shall avenge the quar- YOU AMONG THE HEATHEN, rel of my covenant: and when ye AND WILL DRAW OUT A are gathered together within your SWORD AFTER YOU: AND cities, I will send the pestilence YOUR LAND SHALL BE DESOamong you; and ye shall be de- LATE AND YOUR CITIES livered into the hand of the enemy. WASTE. *Levit. 26:14-39-"... Seven times. . ." Repeated four times. +Levit. 26:33-"And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate and your cities waste." Then shall the land enjoy 2 Ye shall not add unto the abbaths, as long as it lieth word which I command you, neithte, and ye be in your ene-er shall ye diminish ought from it, land; even then shall the that ye may keep the commandrest, and enjoy her sabbaths. ments of the LORD your God which I command you. As long as it lieth desolate it rest; because it did not rest ur sabbaths, when ye dwelt it. 3 Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baalpeor: for all the men that followed BaalAnd upon them that are left peor, the LORD thy God hath deof you, I will send a faint-stroyed them from among you. into their hearts in the lands heir enemies; and the sound shaken leaf shall chase them: they shall flee, as fleeing from ord; and they shall fall, when pursueth. And they shall fall one upon her, as it were before a sword, none pursueth: and ye shall no power to stand before your nies. 3 And ye shall perish among heathen, and the land of your nies shall eat you up. And they that are left of you 1 pine away in their iniquity your enemies' lands; and also the iniquities of their fathers Il they pine away with them. 4 But ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God are alive every one of you this day. 5 Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it. 6 Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these nation is a wise and understandstatutes, and say, Surely this great ing people. 7 For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the LORD our God, is in all things that we call upon him for? 8 And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgIs-ments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day? UT. IV:1-24-B. C. 1451 9 Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life; but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons; 10 Specially the day that thou stoodest before the LORD thy God in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children. 11 And ye came near, and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness. 12 And the LORD spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only ye heard a voice. 13 And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone. 14 And the LORD commanded. me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it. 15 Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves, for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire, 16 Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female, 17 The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air, 18 The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth; 19 And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven. 20 But the LORD hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day. 21 Furthermore, the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and Sware that I should not go over Jordan, and that I should not go in unto that good land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance; 22 But I must die in this land, I must not go over Jordan: but ye shall go over, and possess that good land. 23 Take heed unto yourselves. lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing. which the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee. 24 For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God |