Leviticus 26 · Parashot Behar–Bechukotai

You shall make no idols, nor shall you erect a carved idol, or a pillar, nor shall you install a figured stone in your land, to bow down upon it: for I am the Lord your God.

You shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary, I am the Lord.

If you walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;

then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

And your threshing shall reach to the vintage, and the vintage shall reach to the sowing time: and you shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.

And I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will remove evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.

And you shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.

And five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.

For I will turn myself to you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.

And you shall eat old store, and remove the old because of the new.

And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you.

And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you shall be my people.

I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Miżrayim, that you should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bars of your yoke, and made you walk upright.

But if you will not hearken to me, and will not do all these commands:

and if you shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that you will not do all my commandments, but that you break my covenant:

I also will do this to you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

And I will set my face against you, and you shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and you shall flee when none pursues you.

And if you will not yet for all this hearken to me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.

And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your skies like iron, and your earth like brass:

and your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruit.

And if you walk contrary to me, and will not hearken to me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.

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 highways shall be desolate.

And if you will not be admonished by me as a result of these things, but will walk contrary to me;

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

And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge my covenant: and when you are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall return you your bread by weight: and you shall eat, and not be satisfied.

And if you will not for all this hearken to me, but walk contrary to me;

then I will walk contrary to you also in fury; and will chastise you seven times for your sins.

And you shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall you eat.

And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcasses upon the carcasses of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.

And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.

And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished at it.

And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.

Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lies desolate, and you are in your enemies’ land; then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.

As long as it lies desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when you dwelt upon it.

And upon those who are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursues.

And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursues: and you shall have no power to stand before your enemies.

And you shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.

And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.

And they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary to me;

and that I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies; then only will their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and then they will make amends for their sin.

Then will I remember my covenant with Ya῾aqov, and also my covenant with Yiżĥaq, and also my covenant with Avraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.

The land also shall be forsaken by them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lies desolate without them: and they shall make amends for their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.

And yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, nor will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the Lord their God.

But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Miżrayim in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am the Lord.

These are the statutes and the judgments and the Torot, which the Lord made between him and the children of Yisra᾽el in Mount Sinay by the hand of Moshe.