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Leviticus 26
New International Version

### Reward for Obedience

26 “‘Do not make idols(A) or set up an image(B) or a sacred stone(C) for yourselves, and do not place a carved stone(D) in your land to bow down before it. I am the Lord your God.

2 “‘Observe my Sabbaths(E) and have reverence for my sanctuary.(F) I am the Lord.

3 “‘If you follow my decrees and are careful to obey(G) my commands, 4 I will send you rain(H) in its season,(I) and the ground will yield its crops and the trees their fruit.(J) 5 Your threshing will continue until grape harvest and the grape harvest will continue until planting, and you will eat all the food you want(K) and live in safety in your land.(L)

6 “‘I will grant peace in the land,(M) and you will lie down(N) and no one will make you afraid.(O) I will remove wild beasts(P) from the land, and the sword will not pass through your country. 7 You will pursue your enemies,(Q) and they will fall by the sword before you. 8 Five(R) of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand, and your enemies will fall by the sword before you.(S)

9 “‘I will look on you with favor and make you fruitful and increase your numbers,(T) and I will keep my covenant(U) with you. 10 You will still be eating last year’s harvest when you will have to move it out to make room for the new.(V) 11 I will put my dwelling place[a](W) among you, and I will not abhor you.(X) 12 I will walk(Y) among you and be your God,(Z) and you will be my people.(AA) 13 I am the Lord your God,(AB) who brought you out of Egypt(AC) so that you would no longer be slaves to the Egyptians; I broke the bars of your yoke(AD) and enabled you to walk with heads held high.

### Punishment for Disobedience

14 “‘But if you will not listen to me and carry out all these commands,(AE) 15 and if you reject my decrees and abhor my laws(AF) and fail to carry out all my commands and so violate my covenant,(AG) 16 then I will do this to you: I will bring on you sudden terror, wasting diseases and fever(AH) that will destroy your sight and sap your strength.(AI) You will plant seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.(AJ) 17 I will set my face(AK) against you so that you will be defeated(AL) by your enemies;(AM) those who hate you will rule over you,(AN) and you will flee even when no one is pursuing you.(AO)

18 “‘If after all this you will not listen to me,(AP) I will punish(AQ) you for your sins seven times over.(AR) 19 I will break down your stubborn pride(AS) and make the sky above you like iron and the ground beneath you like bronze.(AT) 20 Your strength will be spent in vain,(AU) because your soil will not yield its crops, nor will the trees of your land yield their fruit.(AV)

21 “‘If you remain hostile(AW) toward me and refuse to listen to me, I will multiply your afflictions seven times over,(AX) as your sins deserve. 22 I will send wild animals(AY) against you, and they will rob you of your children, destroy your cattle and make you so few(AZ) in number that your roads will be deserted.(BA)

23 “‘If in spite of these things you do not accept my correction(BB) but continue to be hostile toward me, 24 I myself will be hostile(BC) toward you and will afflict you for your sins seven times over. 25 And I will bring the sword(BD) on you to avenge(BE) the breaking of the covenant. When you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague(BF) among you, and you will be given into enemy hands. 26 When I cut off your supply of bread,(BG) ten women will be able to bake your bread in one oven, and they will dole out the bread by weight. You will eat, but you will not be satisfied.

27 “‘If in spite of this you still do not listen to me(BH) but continue to be hostile toward me, 28 then in my anger(BI) I will be hostile(BJ) toward you, and I myself will punish you for your sins seven times over.(BK) 29 You will eat(BL) the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters.(BM) 30 I will destroy your high places,(BN) cut down your incense altars(BO) and pile your dead bodies[b] on the lifeless forms of your idols,(BP) and I will abhor(BQ) you. 31 I will turn your cities into ruins(BR) and lay waste(BS) your sanctuaries,(BT) and I will take no delight in the pleasing aroma of your offerings.(BU) 32 I myself will lay waste the land,(BV) so that your enemies who live there will be appalled.(BW) 33 I will scatter(BX) you among the nations(BY) and will draw out my sword(BZ) and pursue you. Your land will be laid waste,(CA) and your cities will lie in ruins.(CB) 34 Then the land will enjoy its sabbath years all the time that it lies desolate(CC) and you are in the country of your enemies;(CD) then the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths. 35 All the time that it lies desolate, the land will have the rest(CE) it did not have during the sabbaths you lived in it.

36 “‘As for those of you who are left, I will make their hearts so fearful in the lands of their enemies that the sound of a windblown leaf(CF) will put them to flight.(CG) They will run as though fleeing from the sword, and they will fall, even though no one is pursuing them.(CH) 37 They will stumble over one another(CI) as though fleeing from the sword, even though no one is pursuing them. So you will not be able to stand before your enemies.(CJ) 38 You will perish(CK) among the nations; the land of your enemies will devour you.(CL) 39 Those of you who are left will waste away in the lands of their enemies because of their sins; also because of their ancestors’(CM) sins they will waste away.(CN)

40 “‘But if they will confess(CO) their sins(CP) and the sins of their ancestors(CQ)—their unfaithfulness and their hostility toward me, 41 which made me hostile(CR) toward them so that I sent them into the land of their enemies—then when their uncircumcised hearts(CS) are humbled(CT) and they pay(CU) for their sin, 42 I will remember my covenant with Jacob(CV) and my covenant with Isaac(CW) and my covenant with Abraham,(CX) and I will remember the land. 43 For the land will be deserted(CY) by them and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them. They will pay for their sins because they rejected(CZ) my laws and abhorred my decrees.(DA) 44 Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies,(DB) I will not reject them or abhor(DC) them so as to destroy them completely,(DD) breaking my covenant(DE) with them. I am the Lord their God. 45 But for their sake I will remember(DF) the covenant with their ancestors whom I brought out of Egypt(DG) in the sight of the nations to be their God. I am the Lord.’”

46 These are the decrees, the laws and the regulations that the Lord established at Mount Sinai(DH) between himself and the Israelites through Moses.(DI)

#### Footnotes

1. Leviticus 26:11 Or my tabernacle
2. Leviticus 26:30 Or your funeral offerings

#### Cross references

1. Leviticus 26:1 : S Ex 20:4
2. Leviticus 26:1 : Ps 97:7; Isa 48:5; Jer 44:19; Hab 2:18
3. Leviticus 26:1 : S Ex 23:24
4. Leviticus 26:1 : Nu 33:52
5. Leviticus 26:2 : S Ex 20:8
6. Leviticus 26:2 : Lev 19:30
7. Leviticus 26:3 : S Ge 26:5; S Ex 24:8; Dt 6:17; 7:12; 11:13, 22; 28:1, 9
8. Leviticus 26:4 : Dt 11:14; 28:12; Ps 68:9; Jer 5:24; Hos 6:3; Joel 2:23; Zec 10:1
9. Leviticus 26:4 : Job 5:10; Ps 65:9; 104:13; 147:8; Jer 5:24
10. Leviticus 26:4 : S Ex 23:26; S Lev 25:19; S Job 14:9; Ps 67:6
11. Leviticus 26:5 : Dt 6:11; 11:15; Eze 36:29-30; Joel 2:19, 26
12. Leviticus 26:5 : S Lev 25:18
13. Leviticus 26:6 : Ps 29:11; 37:11; 85:8; 147:14; Isa 26:3; 54:13; 60:18; Hag 2:9
14. Leviticus 26:6 : Ps 3:5; 4:8; Pr 3:24
15. Leviticus 26:6 : Job 11:18, 19; Isa 17:2; Jer 30:10; Mic 4:4; Zep 3:13
16. Leviticus 26:6 : S ver 22; S Ge 37:20
17. Leviticus 26:7 : Ps 18:37; 44:5
18. Leviticus 26:8 : Isa 30:17
19. Leviticus 26:8 : Dt 28:7; 32:30; Jos 23:10; Jdg 15:15; 1Ch 12:14
20. Leviticus 26:9 : S Ge 1:22; S 17:6; Ne 9:23
21. Leviticus 26:9 : S Ge 17:7
22. Leviticus 26:10 : Lev 25:22
23. Leviticus 26:11 : Ex 25:8; Ps 74:7; 76:2; Eze 37:27
24. Leviticus 26:11 : ver 15, 43, 44; Dt 31:6; 1Sa 12:22; 1Ki 6:13; 2Ki 17:15
25. Leviticus 26:12 : S Ge 3:8
26. Leviticus 26:12 : S Ge 17:7
27. Leviticus 26:12 : Ex 6:7; Jer 7:23; 11:4; 24:7; 30:22; 31:1; Zec 13:9; 2Co 6:16*
28. Leviticus 26:13 : Lev 11:44
29. Leviticus 26:13 : S Ex 6:6; S 13:3
30. Leviticus 26:13 : Isa 10:27; Jer 2:20; 27:2; 28:10; 30:8; Eze 30:18; 34:27; Hos 11:4
31. Leviticus 26:14 : Dt 28:15-68; Mal 2:2
32. Leviticus 26:15 : S ver 11
33. Leviticus 26:15 : S Ge 17:7
34. Leviticus 26:16 : Dt 28:22, 35; Ps 78:33
35. Leviticus 26:16 : ver 39; 1Sa 2:33; Ps 107:17; Eze 4:17; 24:23; 33:10
36. Leviticus 26:16 : Jdg 6:3-6; Job 31:8
37. Leviticus 26:17 : Lev 17:10; Eze 15:7
38. Leviticus 26:17 : Dt 28:48; Jos 7:12; Jdg 2:15; 1Ki 8:33; 2Ch 6:24
39. Leviticus 26:17 : Jos 7:4; Jer 19:7; 21:7
40. Leviticus 26:17 : Ps 106:41
41. Leviticus 26:17 : ver 36, 37; Dt 28:7, 25; Ps 53:5; Pr 28:1; Isa 30:17
42. Leviticus 26:18 : ver 14
43. Leviticus 26:18 : Ps 99:8; Jer 21:14; Am 3:14
44. Leviticus 26:18 : ver 21
45. Leviticus 26:19 : Ps 10:4; 73:6; Isa 16:6; 25:11; 28:1-3; Jer 13:9; 48:29; Eze 24:21; Am 6:8; Zep 3:11
46. Leviticus 26:19 : Dt 28:23; Job 38:38
47. Leviticus 26:20 : Dt 28:38; Ps 127:1; Isa 17:11; 49:4; Jer 12:13; Mic 6:15; Hag 1:6
48. Leviticus 26:20 : Dt 11:17; 28:24
49. Leviticus 26:21 : ver 41
50. Leviticus 26:21 : ver 18; S Ge 4:15
51. Leviticus 26:22 : S Ge 37:20
52. Leviticus 26:22 : Dt 28:62; Jer 42:2
53. Leviticus 26:22 : Jer 5:6; 14:16; 15:3; 16:4; Eze 14:15
54. Leviticus 26:23 : Jer 2:30; 5:3; 7:28; 17:23; 32:33; Zep 3:2
55. Leviticus 26:24 : 2Sa 22:27
56. Leviticus 26:25 : Jer 5:17; 15:3; 47:6; Eze 11:8; 14:17; 21:4; 33:2
57. Leviticus 26:25 : Jer 50:28; 51:6, 11
58. Leviticus 26:25 : S Ex 5:3; S 9:3; Nu 16:46; 1Ki 8:37; Hab 3:5
59. Leviticus 26:26 : 1Ki 8:37; 18:2; 2Ki 4:38; 6:25; 8:1; 25:3; Ps 105:16; Isa 3:1; 9:20; Jer 37:21; 52:6; Eze 4:16, 17; 5:16; 14:13; Hos 4:10; Mic 6:14
60. Leviticus 26:27 : ver 14
61. Leviticus 26:28 : Dt 32:19; Jdg 2:14; Ps 78:59; 106:40
62. Leviticus 26:28 : Dt 7:10; Job 34:11; Isa 59:18; 65:6-7; 66:6; Jer 17:10; 25:29; Joel 3:4
63. Leviticus 26:28 : ver 18
64. Leviticus 26:29 : 2Ki 6:29; Jer 19:9; La 4:10; Eze 5:10
65. Leviticus 26:29 : Dt 28:53
66. Leviticus 26:30 : Dt 12:2; 1Sa 9:12; 10:5; 1Ki 3:2, 4; 12:31; 13:2, 32; 2Ki 17:29; 23:20; 2Ch 34:3; Ps 78:58; Eze 6:3; 16:16; Am 7:9
67. Leviticus 26:30 : 2Ch 34:4; Isa 17:8; 27:9; Eze 6:6
68. Leviticus 26:30 : Isa 21:9; Jer 50:2; Eze 6:13
69. Leviticus 26:30 : Ps 106:40; Am 6:8
70. Leviticus 26:31 : Ne 1:3; Isa 1:7; 3:8, 26; 6:11; 24:12; 61:4; Jer 4:7; 9:11; 25:11; 34:22; 44:2, 6, 22; Eze 36:33; Mic 2:4; 3:12; Zep 2:5; 3:6
71. Leviticus 26:31 : 2Ki 22:19
72. Leviticus 26:31 : Ps 74:3-7; Isa 63:18; 64:11; La 2:7; Eze 24:21; Am 7:9
73. Leviticus 26:31 : Am 5:21, 22; 8:10
74. Leviticus 26:32 : Isa 5:6; Jer 9:11; 12:11; 25:11; 26:9; 33:10; 34:22; 44:22
75. Leviticus 26:32 : 1Ki 9:8; 2Ch 29:8; Isa 52:14; Jer 18:16; 19:8; 48:39; Eze 5:14; 26:16; 27:35; 28:19
76. Leviticus 26:33 : Jer 40:15; 50:17; Eze 34:6; Joel 3:2
77. Leviticus 26:33 : Dt 4:27; 28:64; Ne 1:8; Ps 44:11; 106:27; Jer 4:11; 9:16; 13:24; 31:10; Eze 5:10; 12:15; 17:21; 20:23; 22:15; Zec 7:14
78. Leviticus 26:33 : Jer 42:16; Am 9:4
79. Leviticus 26:33 : Isa 49:19; Jer 7:34
80. Leviticus 26:33 : ver 31; 1Sa 15:22; Job 36:11; Jer 40:3
81. Leviticus 26:34 : Isa 1:7; Jer 7:34; 25:11; 44:6; Eze 33:29
82. Leviticus 26:34 : ver 43; 2Ch 36:21
83. Leviticus 26:35 : S Lev 25:4
84. Leviticus 26:36 : Job 13:25
85. Leviticus 26:36 : 2Ki 25:5; Ps 58:7; La 1:3, 6; 4:19; Eze 21:7
86. Leviticus 26:36 : S ver 17
87. Leviticus 26:37 : Jer 6:21; 13:16; 46:16; Eze 3:20; Na 3:3
88. Leviticus 26:37 : Jos 7:12
89. Leviticus 26:38 : Job 4:9; 36:12; Ps 1:6; Isa 1:28; Jer 16:4; 44:27
90. Leviticus 26:38 : Dt 4:26
91. Leviticus 26:39 : Ex 20:5; Isa 14:21
92. Leviticus 26:39 : S ver 16; Isa 24:16
93. Leviticus 26:40 : S Lev 5:5
94. Leviticus 26:40 : Ps 32:5; 38:18
95. Leviticus 26:40 : Ne 9:2; Ps 106:6; Jer 3:12-15; 14:20; Hos 5:15; Lk 15:18; 1Jn 1:9
96. Leviticus 26:41 : S ver 21
97. Leviticus 26:41 : Dt 10:16; 30:6; Jer 4:4; 9:25, 26; Eze 44:7, 9; Ac 7:51
98. Leviticus 26:41 : 2Ch 7:14; 12:6; Eze 20:43
99. Leviticus 26:41 : Isa 6:7; 33:24; 40:2; 53:5, 6, 11
100. Leviticus 26:42 : Ge 28:15; 35:11-12
101. Leviticus 26:42 : S Ge 26:5
102. Leviticus 26:42 : S Ex 2:24
103. Leviticus 26:43 : Ps 69:25; Isa 6:11; 32:14; 62:4; Jer 2:15; 44:2; La 1:1; Eze 36:4
104. Leviticus 26:43 : Nu 11:20; 14:31; 1Sa 8:7; Ps 106:24
105. Leviticus 26:43 : S ver 11; Eze 20:13
106. Leviticus 26:44 : S ver 33; 2Ki 17:20; 25:11; 2Ch 6:36; 36:20
107. Leviticus 26:44 : S ver 11; Ro 11:2
108. Leviticus 26:44 : Dt 4:31; Jer 4:27; 5:10; 30:11
109. Leviticus 26:44 : Jdg 2:1; Jer 31:37; 33:26; 51:5
110. Leviticus 26:45 : Dt 4:31
111. Leviticus 26:45 : Ex 6:8; Lev 25:38
112. Leviticus 26:46 : S Ex 19:11
113. Leviticus 26:46 : S Lev 7:38; 27:34

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