Leviticus 26–27

Blessings for Obedience

26“You shall not make ^sidols for yourselves or erect an ^timage or ^upillar, and you shall not set up a ^vfigured stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the Lord your God. ^2wYou shall keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.

^3x“If you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them, ⁴then ^yI 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. ^5zYour threshing shall last to the time of the grape harvest, and the grape harvest shall last to the time for sowing. And ^ayou shall eat your bread to the full and ^bdwell in your land securely. ^6cI will give peace in the land, and ^dyou shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid. And ^eI will remove harmful beasts from the land, ^fand the sword shall not go through your land. ⁷You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword. ^8gFive 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. ^9hI will turn to you and ⁱmake you fruitful and multiply you and will confirm my covenant with you. ¹⁰You shall eat ^jold store long kept, and you shall clear out the old to make way for the new. ^11kI will make my dwelling¹ among you, and my soul shall not abhor you. ^12lAnd I ^mwill walk among you and will be your God, and you shall be my people. ¹³ⁿI am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves. ^oAnd I have broken the bars of your yoke and made you walk erect.

Punishment for Disobedience

^14p“But if you will not listen to me and will not do all these commandments, ¹⁵if you spurn my statutes, and if your soul abhors my rules, so that you will not do all my commandments, but ^qbreak my covenant, ¹⁶then I will do this to you: I will visit you with panic, with ^rwasting disease and fever that consume the eyes and make the heart ache. And ^syou shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. ¹⁷I will ^tset my face against you, and ^uyou shall be struck down before your enemies. ^vThose who hate you shall rule over you, and ^wyou shall flee when none pursues you. ¹⁸And if in spite of this you will not listen to me, then I will discipline you again ^xsevenfold for your sins, ¹⁹and I will break ^ythe pride of your power, and I ^zwill make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze. ²⁰And ^ayour strength shall be spent in vain, for ^byour land shall not yield its increase, and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.

^21c“Then if you walk contrary to me and will not listen to me, I will continue striking you, sevenfold for your sins. ²²And ^dI will let loose the wild beasts against you, which shall bereave you of your children and destroy your livestock and make you few in number, so that ^eyour roads shall be deserted.

²³“And ^fif by this discipline you are not turned to me ^cbut walk contrary to me, ^24gthen I also will walk contrary to you, and I myself will strike you sevenfold for your sins. ²⁵And ^hI will bring a sword upon you, that shall execute vengeance for the covenant. And if you gather within your cities, ⁱI will send pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy. ^26jWhen I break your supply² of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in a single oven and shall dole out your bread again by weight, and ^kyou shall eat and not be satisfied.

²⁷“But ^lif in spite of this you will not listen to me, but walk contrary to me, ²⁸then I will walk contrary to you ^min fury, and I myself will discipline you ^xsevenfold for your sins. ²⁹ⁿYou shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters. ³⁰And ^oI will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars and ^pcast your dead bodies upon the dead bodies of your idols, and my soul will abhor you. ³¹And I will ^qlay your cities waste and will ^rmake your sanctuaries desolate, and ^sI will not smell your pleasing aromas. ³²And ^tI myself will devastate the land, so that your enemies who settle in it shall be ^uappalled at it. ³³And ^vI will scatter you among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword after you, and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.

^34w“Then the land shall enjoy³ its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate, while you are in your enemies’ land; then the land shall rest, and enjoy its Sabbaths. ³⁵As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, the rest that it did not have on your Sabbaths when you were dwelling in it. ³⁶And as for those of you who are left, ^xI will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The ^ysound of a ^zdriven leaf shall put them to flight, and they shall flee as one flees from the sword, and they shall fall when none pursues. ³⁷They shall stumble over one another, as if to escape a sword, though none pursues. And ^ayou shall have no power to stand before your enemies. ³⁸And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up. ³⁹And those of you who are left shall ^brot away in your enemies’ lands because of their iniquity, and also because of the iniquities of their fathers they shall rot away like them.

⁴⁰“But if ^cthey confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers in their treachery that they ^dcommitted against me, and also in walking contrary to me, ⁴¹so that I walked contrary to them and brought them into the land of their enemies—if then their ^euncircumcised heart is ^fhumbled and they make amends for their iniquity, ⁴²then I will ^gremember my covenant with Jacob, and I will remember my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will ^hremember the land. ⁴³But ^wthe land shall be abandoned by them and enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them, and they shall make amends for their iniquity, because they spurned my rules and their soul abhorred my statutes. ⁴⁴Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, ⁱI will not spurn them, neither will I abhor them so as to destroy them utterly and ^jbreak my covenant with them, for I am the Lord their God. ⁴⁵But I will for their sake remember the covenant with their forefathers, ^kwhom I brought out of the land of Egypt ^lin the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am the Lord.”

^46mThese are the statutes and rules and laws that the Lord made between himself and the people of Israel through Moses ⁿon Mount Sinai.

Laws About Vows

27The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ²“Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, If anyone ^omakes a special vow to the Lord involving the valuation of persons, ³then the valuation of a male from twenty years old up to sixty years old shall be fifty shekels¹ of silver, according to the ^pshekel of the sanctuary. ⁴If the person is a female, the valuation shall be thirty shekels. ⁵If the person is from five years old up to twenty years old, the valuation shall be for a male twenty shekels, and for a female ten shekels. ⁶If the person is from a month old up to five years old, the valuation shall be for a male five shekels of silver, and for a female the valuation shall be three shekels of silver. ⁷And if the person is sixty years old or over, then the valuation for a male shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels. ⁸And if someone is too poor to pay the valuation, then he shall be made to stand before the priest, and the priest shall value him; the priest shall value him according to what the vower can afford.

⁹“If the vow² is an animal that may be offered as an offering to the Lord, all of it that he gives to the Lord is holy. ^10qHe shall not exchange it or make a substitute for it, good for bad, or bad for good; and if he does in fact substitute one animal for another, then both it and the substitute shall be holy. ¹¹And if it is any unclean animal that may not be offered as an offering to the Lord, then he shall stand the animal before the priest, ¹²and the priest shall value it as either good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall be. ^13rBut if he wishes to redeem it, he shall add a ^sfifth to the valuation.

¹⁴“When a man dedicates his house as a holy gift to the Lord, the priest shall value it as either good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall stand. ^15tAnd if the donor wishes to redeem his house, he shall add a ^sfifth to the valuation price, and it shall be his.

¹⁶“If a man dedicates to the Lord part of the land that is his possession, then the valuation shall be in proportion to its seed. A homer³ of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver. ¹⁷If he dedicates his field from the year of jubilee, the valuation shall stand, ¹⁸but if he dedicates his field after the jubilee, then the priest shall ^ucalculate the price according to the years that remain until the year of jubilee, and a deduction shall be made from the valuation. ^19vAnd if he who dedicates the field wishes to redeem it, then he shall add a ^sfifth to its valuation price, and it shall remain his. ²⁰But if he does not wish to redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed anymore. ²¹But the field, ^wwhen it is released in the jubilee, shall be a holy gift to the Lord, like a field that has been ^xdevoted. The priest shall be in ^ypossession of it. ²²If he dedicates to the Lord a field that he has bought, ^zwhich is not a part of his possession, ^23athen the priest shall calculate the amount of the valuation for it up to the year of jubilee, and the man shall give the valuation on that day as a holy gift to the Lord. ^24bIn the year of jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, to whom the land belongs as a possession. ²⁵Every valuation shall be according to ^cthe shekel of the sanctuary: ^dtwenty gerahs⁴ shall make a shekel.

²⁶“But a ^efirstborn of animals, which as a firstborn belongs to the Lord, no man may dedicate; whether ox or…