Promise of Blessing and Retribution

26 ‘You shall anot make idols for yourselves;

neither a carved image nor a sacred pillar shall you rear up for yourselves;

nor shall you set up an engraved stone in your land, to bow down to it;

for I am the Lord your God.

2 bYou shall 1keep My Sabbaths and reverence My sanctuary:

I am the Lord.

3 c‘If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments, and perform them,

4 dthen I will give you rain in its season, ethe land shall yield its produce, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

5 fYour threshing shall last till the time of vintage, and the vintage shall last till the time of sowing;

you shall eat your bread to the full, and gdwell in your land safely.

6 hI will give peace in the land, and iyou shall lie down, and none will make you afraid;

I will rid the land of jevil 2beasts,

and kthe sword will not go through your land.

7 You will chase your enemies, and they shall fall by the sword before you.

8 lFive of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight;

your enemies shall fall by the sword before you.

9 ‘For I will mlook on you favorably and nmake you fruitful, multiply you and confirm My ocovenant with you.

10 You shall eat the pold harvest, and clear out the old because of the new.

11 qI will set My 3tabernacle among you, and My soul shall not abhor you.

12 rI will walk among you and be your God, and you shall be My people.

13 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves;

I have broken the bands of your syoke and made you walk 4upright.

14 ‘But if you do not obey Me, and do not observe all these commandments,

15 and if you despise My statutes, or if your soul abhors My judgments, so that you do not perform all My commandments, but break My covenant,

16 I also will do this to you:

I will even appoint terror over you, twasting disease and fever which shall uconsume the eyes and vcause sorrow of heart.

And wyou shall sow your seed 5in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

17 I will 6set xMy face against you, and yyou shall be defeated by your enemies.

zThose who hate you shall reign over you, and you shall aflee when no one pursues you.

18 ‘And after all this, if you do not obey Me, then I will punish you bseven times more for your sins.

19 I will cbreak the pride of your power;

I dwill make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze.

20 And your estrength shall be spent in vain;

for your fland shall not yield its produce, nor shall the trees of the land yield their fruit.

21 ‘Then, if you walk contrary to Me, and are not willing to obey Me, I will bring on you seven times more plagues, according to your sins.

22 gI will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number;

and hyour highways shall be desolate.

23 ‘And if iby these things you are not reformed by Me, but walk contrary to Me,

24 jthen I also will walk contrary to you, and I will punish you yet seven times for your sins.

25 And kI will bring a sword against you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant;

when you are gathered together within your cities lI will send pestilence among you;

and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

26 mWhen I have cut off your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall bring back your bread by weight, nand you shall eat and not be satisfied.

27 ‘And after all this, if you do not obey Me, but walk contrary to Me,

28 then I also will walk contrary to you in fury;

and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.

29 oYou 7shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters.

30 pI will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and cast your carcasses on the lifeless forms of your idols;

and My soul shall abhor you.

31 I will lay your qcities waste and rbring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not ssmell the fragrance of your 8sweet aromas.

32 tI will bring the land to desolation, and your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished at it.

33 uI will scatter you among the nations and draw out a sword after you;

your land shall be desolate and your cities waste.

34 vThen the land shall enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies’ land;

then the land shall rest and enjoy its sabbaths.

35 As long as it lies desolate it shall rest—

for the time it did not rest on your wsabbaths when you dwelt in it.

36 ‘And as for those of you who are left, I will send xfaintness 9into their hearts in the lands of their enemies;

the sound of a shaken leaf shall cause them to flee;

they shall flee as though fleeing from a sword, and they shall fall when no one pursues.

37 yThey shall stumble over one another, as it were before a sword, when no one pursues;

and zyou shall have no power to stand before your enemies.

38 You shall aperish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.

39 And those of you who are left bshall 1waste away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands;

also in their cfathers’ iniquities, which are with them, they shall waste away.

40 ‘But dif they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, with their unfaithfulness in which they were unfaithful to Me, and that they also have walked contrary to Me,

41 and that I also have walked contrary to them and have brought them into the land of their enemies;

if their euncircumcised hearts are fhumbled, and they gaccept their guilt—

42 then I will hremember My covenant with Jacob, and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham I will remember;

I will iremember the land.

43 jThe land also shall be left empty by them, and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them;

they will accept their guilt, because they kdespised My judgments and because their soul abhorred My statutes.

44 Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, lI will not cast them away, nor shall I abhor them, to utterly destroy them and break My covenant with them;

for I am the Lord their God.

45 But mfor their sake I will remember the covenant of their ancestors, nwhom I brought out of the land of Egypt oin the sight of the nations, that I might be their God:

I am the Lord.’ ”

46 pThese are the statutes and judgments and laws which the Lord made between Himself and the children of Israel qon Mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.

Redeeming Persons and Property Dedicated to God

27 Now the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: a‘When a man 1consecrates by a vow certain persons to the Lord, according to your 2valuation, 3 if your valuation is of a male from twenty years old up to sixty years old, then your valuation shall be fifty shekels of silver, baccording to the shekel of the sanctuary. 4 If it is a female, then your valuation shall be thirty shekels; 5 and if from five years old up to twenty years old, then your valuation for a male shall be twenty shekels, and for a female ten shekels; 6 and if from a month old up to five years old, then your valuation for a male shall be five shekels of silver, and for a female your valuation shall be three shekels of silver; 7 and if from sixty years old and above, if it is a male, then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels.

8 ‘But if he is too poor to pay your valuation, then he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest shall set a value for chim; according to the ability of him who vowed, the priest shall value him.

9 ‘If it is an animal that men may bring as an offering to the Lord, all that anyone gives to the Lord shall be holy. 10 He shall not substitute it or exchange it, good for bad or bad for good; and if he at all exchanges animal for animal, then both it and the one exchanged for it shall be dholy. 11 If it is an unclean animal which they do not offer as a sacrifice to the Lord, then he shall present the animal before the priest; 12 and the priest shall set a value for it, whether it is good or bad; as you, the priest, value it, so it shall be. 13 eBut if he wants at all to redeem it, then he must add one-fifth to your valuation.

14 ‘And when a man 3dedicates his house to be holy to the Lord, then the priest shall set a value for it, whether it is good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall stand. 15 If he who dedicated it wants to 4redeem his house, then he must add one-fifth of the money of your valuation to it, and it shall be his.

16 ‘If a man 5dedicates to the Lord part of a field of his possession, then your valuation shall be according to the seed for it. A homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver. 17 If he dedicates his field from the Year of Jubilee, according to your valuation it shall stand. 18 But if he dedicates his field after the Jubilee, then the priest shall freckon to him the money due according to the years that remain till the Year of Jubilee, and it shall be deducted from your valuation. 19 And if he who dedicates the field ever wishes to redeem it, then he must add one-fifth of the money of your valuation to it, and it shall belong to him. 20 But if he does not want to redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed anymore; 21 but the field, gwhen it is released in the Jubilee, shall be holy to the Lord, as a hdevoted field; it shall be ithe possession of the priest.

22 ‘And if a man dedicates to the Lord a field which he has bought, which is not the field of jhis possession, 23 then the priest shall reckon to him the worth of your valuation, up to the Year of Jubilee, and he shall give your valuation on that day as a holy offering to the Lord. 24 kIn the Year of Jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, to the one who owned the land as a possession. 25 And all your valuations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: ltwenty gerahs to the shekel.

26 ‘But the mfirstborn of the animals, which should be the Lord’s firstborn, no man shall dedicate; whether it is an