26“ ‘You^a shall not make for yourselves idols and divine images, and you shall not raise up stone pillars for yourselves, and you shall not put a sculptured stone in your land in order to^b worship before it, because I am Yahweh your God.

²“ ‘You shall keep my Sabbaths, and you shall revere my sanctuary; I am Yahweh.

³“ ‘If you walk in my statutes and you keep my commands and you do them, ⁴then^c I will give you rains in their time, and the land shall give its produce, and the trees of the field shall give their fruit. ⁵And for you the threshing season shall overtake the grape harvest, and the grape harvest shall overtake the sowing, and you shall eat your food to your fill^d and you shall live securely^e in your land. ⁶And I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and there shall not be anybody who makes you afraid,^f and I will remove harmful animals from the land, and no sword shall pass through your land.^g ⁷And you shall pursue your enemies, and they shall fall by the sword before you.^h ⁸And five ofⁱ you shall pursue a hundred, and a hundred of^j you shall pursue a myriad;^k and your enemies shall fall by the sword before you.^l ⁹And I will turn to you, and I will make you fruitful, and I will make you numerous; and I will keep my covenant with you. ¹⁰And you shall eat old grain,^m and you shall clear away the old before the new.ⁿ ¹¹And I will put my dwelling place in your midst, and my inner self^o shall not abhor you. ¹²And I will walk about in your midst, and I shall be your God,^p and you shall be my people.^q ¹³I am Yahweh, your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt, from being their slaves; and I broke the bars of your yoke, and I caused you to walk erectly.

Punishment for Disobedience

¹⁴“ ‘But^r if you do not listen to me and you do not carry out^s all these commands, ¹⁵and if you reject my statutes and if your inner self^t abhors my regulations, to not carry out^u all my commands by your breaking my covenant, ¹⁶I in turn^v will do this to you: then^w I will summon onto you horror, the wasting disease, and the fever that wastes eyes and that drains away life; and you shall sow your seed in vain,^x and your enemies shall eat it. ¹⁷And I will set my face against you, and you shall be defeated before^y your enemies; and your haters shall rule over you, and you shall flee away, but^z there shall not be anybody who is pursuing^a you.

¹⁸“ ‘And if in spite of these things you do not listen to me, then^b I will continue to discipline you seven times for your sins. ¹⁹And I will break the pride of your strength; and I will make your heaven like iron^c and your land like copper. ²⁰And your strength shall be consumed in vain;^d and your land shall not give its produce, and the land’s trees shall not give their fruit.

²¹“ ‘And if you go against me in hostility and you are not willing to listen to me, then^e I will add a plague onto you seven times according to your sins. ²²And I will send wild animals^f out among you, and they shall make you childless, and they shall cut down your domestic animals, and they shall make you fewer; and your roads shall be desolate.

²³“ ‘And if you do not accept correction from^g me through these things, but^h you go against me in hostility, ²⁴thenⁱ I myself^j will also go against you in hostility, and I myself^k also will strike you seven times for your sins. ²⁵And I will bring upon you a sword that seeks vengeance for the covenant, and you shall be gathered to your cities; and I will send a plague in your midst, and you shall be given into the hand of an enemy. ²⁶At my breaking the supply^l of bread^m for you, thenⁿ ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall return your bread by weight; and you shall eat it, and you shall not be satisfied.

²⁷“ ‘And if through this you do not listen to me and you go against me in hostility, ²⁸then^o I will go against you in hostile anger, and also^p I myself^q will discipline you seven times for your sins. ²⁹And you shall eat the flesh of your sons; and the flesh of your daughters you shall eat. ³⁰And I will destroy your high places, and I will cut down your incense altars, and I will place your corpses on your idols’ corpses; and my inner self^r shall abhor you. ³¹And I will lay your cities in ruins, and I will lay waste your sanctuaries; and I shall not smell your sacrifices’^s appeasing fragrance. ³²And I myself^t will lay waste the land, and your enemies who are living in it shall be appalled over it. ³³And I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw a sword behind you; and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a ruin. ³⁴Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths all the days of its lying desolate, and you shall be in the land of your enemies; then the land shall rest, and it shall enjoy its Sabbaths. ³⁵All the days of its lying desolate it shall rest for the time^u that it had not rested during your Sabbaths while you were living on it. ³⁶As for^v the ones who remain among you, I will bring^w fearfulness in their hearts in the land of their enemies; and a sound of a windblown leaf shall pursue them, and they shall flee like flight before^x a sword, and they shall fall, but^y there shall not be a pursuer. ³⁷And they shall stumble over one another^z as from before^a a sword, but^b there shall not be a pursuer; and you shall have no resistance^c before^d your enemies. ³⁸And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you. ³⁹And because of their guilt, the ones among you who remain shall decay in the land of their enemies; and also because of the iniquities of their ancestors,^e they shall decay with them.

⁴⁰“ ‘But^f when they confess their guilt and the guilt of their ancestors^g in their infidelity that they displayed against me, and moreover that they went against me in hostility— ⁴¹I myself^h alsoⁱ went against them in hostility, and I brought them into the land of their enemies—or if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled and then they pay for their guilt, ⁴²I will remember^j my covenant with Jacob; and I will remember also my covenant with Isaac and also my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land. ⁴³And the land shall be deserted by them, and it shall enjoy its Sabbaths in its being desolate from them, and they themselves^k must pay for their guilt, simply because^l they rejected my regulations, and their inner self^m abhorred my statutes. ⁴⁴And in spite ofⁿ this, when they are^o in the land of their enemies I will not reject them, and I will not abhor them to destroy them, to break my covenant with them, because I am Yahweh their God. ⁴⁵And I will remember the first covenant for them^p—whom I brought out from the land of Egypt in the sight of^q the nations to be their God.^r I am Yahweh.’ ”

⁴⁶These are the rules and the regulations and the laws that Yahweh gave between himself and the Israelites^s on Mount Sinai^t through^u Moses.

Instructions About Vows

27Then^a Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ²“Speak to the Israelites,^b and say^c to them, ‘When a man makes a vow according to your^d proper value of persons to Yahweh, ³if^e your proper value is for a male^f from twenty years of age^g up to^h sixty years of age,ⁱ then^j your proper value shall be fifty shekels of money according to the sanctuary’s shekel. ⁴But^k if it is for a female, then^l your proper value shall be thirty shekels. ⁵And if from five years of age^m up toⁿ twenty years of age,^o then^p your proper value shall be twenty shekels for the male and ten shekels for the female. ⁶And if from a month of age^q up to^r five years of age,^s then^t your proper value shall be five shekels of money for the male, and your proper value for the female shall be three shekels of money. ⁷And if from sixty years of age^u and above: if a male, then^v your proper value shall be fifteen shekels; and for the female, ten shekels. ⁸But^w if he is poorer than your proper value, then^x he shall present himself before^y the priest, and the priest shall set a value on him; the priest shall value him according to^z what the person who made a vow can afford.^a

⁹“ ‘And if it is a domestic animal from which they present an offering for Yahweh, all that he gives from it for Yahweh shall be a holy object. ¹⁰He shall not replace it, nor shall he exchange it, either good with bad or bad with good; and if he indeed exchanges a domestic animal with a domestic animal, then^b it and its substitution shall be a holy object.^c ¹¹But^d if it is any unclean animal from which they may not present an offering for Yahweh, then^e he shall present the animal before^f the priest. ¹²And the priest shall set a value on it, either good or bad;^g as the priest sets your proper value, so it shall be. ¹³And if he indeed wants to redeem it, then^h he shall add a fifth of it onto your proper value.

¹⁴“ ‘And if a man consecrates his house as a holy object for Yahweh, thenⁱ the priest shall set a value on it, either good or bad;^j just as the priest sets a value on it, so it shall remain. ¹⁵But^k if the one who consecrates it wants to redeem his house, then^l he shall add a fifth of your proper value’s money onto it, and it shall be his.

¹⁶“ ‘And if a man consecrates some of^m his property’s fieldsⁿ for Yahweh, then^o your proper value shall be in accordance with its seed requirements:^p a homer of barley seed for fifty shekels of money. ¹⁷If he consecrates his field from the Year of Jubilee, it shall stand as your proper value. ¹⁸But^q if he consecrates his field after the Jubilee, then^r the priest shall calculate the money for him according to the number of years^s that are left over until the Year of Jubilee; and it shall be deducted from your proper value. ¹⁹And if he indeed redeems the field that is consecrated, then^t he shall add a fifth of your proper value’s money onto it, and it shall stand for^u him. ²⁰And if he does not redeem the field and if he sells the field to another man, it may not be redeemed again, ²¹and the field shall be a…

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Footnotes

aPlural throughout the entire chapter
bOr “to”
cOr “and”
dLiterally “to contentment”
eLiterally “with confidence”
fLiterally “who makes afraid” or “making afraid”
gLiterally “a sword shall not pass through in your land”
hLiterally “to your faces”
iHebrew “from”
jHebrew “from”
kOr “ten thousand”
lLiterally “to your faces”
mLiterally “old what is stale”
nLiterally “old from the faces of new you shall bring out”
oOr “soul”
pOr “as a God for you”
qOr “as a people for me”
rOr “And”
sOr “you do not do” or “you do not observe” or “you do not perform”
tOr “soul”
uOr “do” or “observe” or “perform”
vLiterally “also” or “indeed”
wOr “and”
xLiterally “for the emptiness”
yLiterally “to the faces of”
zOr “and”
aLiterally “who pursues” or “pursuing”
bOr “and”
cOr “iron ore”
dLiterally “to the emptiness”
eOr “and”
fLiterally “the animals of the field”
gHebrew “for” or “to”
hOr “and”
iOr “and”
jEmphatic personal pronoun
kEmphatic personal pronoun
lLiterally “staff”
mOr “food”
nOr “and”
oOr “and”
pOr “surely”
qEmphatic personal pronoun
rOr “soul”
sImplied by the use of the same phraseology in regard to the sacrifices in the early chapters of the book
tEmphatic personal pronoun
uImplied by context
vOr “And”
wOr “and I will bring”
xLiterally “of”
yOr “and”
zLiterally “a man on his brother”
aLiterally “from the faces of”
bOr “and”
cLiterally “it shall not be for you resistance”
dLiterally “to the faces of”
eOr “fathers”
fOr “And”
gOr “fathers”
hEmphatic personal pronoun
iOr “surely”
jOr “and I will remember”
kEmphatic personal pronoun
lLiterally “because and in because”
mOr “soul”
nLiterally “also even” or “moreover also” or “moreover even”
oLiterally “in their being”
pOr “on behalf of them” or “on their behalf”
qLiterally “to the eyes of” or “for the eyes of”
rLiterally “to be for them for God” or “to be for them as a God”
sLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
tLiterally “the mountain of Sinai”
uLiterally “in/by the hand of”
aOr “And”
bLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
cOr “and you shall say”
dSingular when modifying “proper value” throughout the entire chapter
eOr “and”
fHebrew “the male”
gLiterally “a son of twenty years”
hOr “and up to”
iLiterally “a son of sixty years”
jOr “and”
kOr “And”
lOr “and”
mLiterally “a son of five years”
nOr “and up to”
oLiterally “a son of twenty years”
pOr “and”
qLiterally “a son of a month”
rOr “and up to”
sLiterally “a son of five years”
tOr “and”
uLiterally “a son of sixty years”
vOr “and”
wOr “And”
xOr “and”
yLiterally “to the faces of”
zLiterally “on a mouth of”
aLiterally “his hand produces”
bOr “and”
cLiterally “it shall be and its substitution shall be holy”
dOr “And”
eOr “and”
fLiterally “to the faces of”
gLiterally “between good and between bad”
hOr “and”
iOr “and”
jLiterally “between good and between bad”
kOr “And”
lOr “and”
mLiterally “from”
nCollective singular; Hebrew “field”
oOr “and”
pLiterally “to the number of its seed”
qOr “And”
rOr “and”
sLiterally “on the mouth of the years”
tOr “and”
uOr “remain for” or “belong to”