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Blessings for Obedience

¹ "‘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, ⁴ then^[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. ⁵ And 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. ⁶ And 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] 7} And you shall pursue your enemies, and they shall fall by the sword before you.^{[h] 8} And five of^[i] 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] 9} And 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. ¹⁰ And you shall eat old grain,^[m] and you shall clear away the old before the new.^{[n] 11} And I will put my dwelling place in your midst, and my inner self^[o] shall not abhor you. ¹² And I will walk about in your midst, and I shall be your God,^[p] and you shall be my people.^{[q] 13} I 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, ¹⁵ and 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, ¹⁶ I 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. ¹⁷ And 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^[aa] you.

¹⁸ "‘And if in spite of these things you do not listen to me, then^[ab] I will continue to discipline you seven times for your sins. ¹⁹ And I will break the pride of your strength; and I will make your heaven like iron^[ac] and your land like copper. ²⁰ And your strength shall be consumed in vain;^[ad] 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^[ae] I will add a plague onto you seven times according to your sins. ²² And I will send wild animals^[af] 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^[ag] me through these things, but^[ah] you go against me in hostility, ²⁴ then^[ai] I myself^[aj] will also go against you in hostility, and I myself^[ak] also will strike you seven times for your sins. ²⁵ And 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. ²⁶ At my breaking the supply^[al] of bread^[am] for you, then^[an] 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, ²⁸ then^[ao] I will go against you in hostile anger, and also^[ap] I myself^[aq] will discipline you seven times for your sins. ²⁹ And you shall eat the flesh of your sons; and the flesh of your daughters you shall eat. ³⁰ And 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^[ar] shall abhor you. ³¹ And I will lay your cities in ruins, and I will lay waste your sanctuaries; and I shall not smell your sacrifices'^[as] appeasing fragrance. ³² And I myself^[at] will lay waste the land, and your enemies who are living in it shall be appalled over it. ³³ And 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. ³⁴ Then 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. ³⁵ All the days of its lying desolate it shall rest for the time^[au] that it had not rested during your Sabbaths while you were living on it. ³⁶ As for^[av] the ones who remain among you, I will bring^[aw] 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^[ax] a sword, and they shall fall, but^[ay] there shall not be a pursuer. ³⁷ And they shall stumble over one another^[az] as from before^[ba] a sword, but^[bb] there shall not be a pursuer; and you shall have no resistance^[bc] before^[bd] your enemies. ³⁸ And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you. ³⁹ And 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,^[be] they shall decay with them.

⁴⁰ "‘But^[bf] when they confess their guilt and the guilt of their ancestors^[bg] in their infidelity that they displayed against me, and moreover that they went against me in hostility— ⁴¹ I myself^[bh] also^[bi] 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, ⁴² I will remember^[bj] 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. ⁴³ And the land shall be deserted by them, and it shall enjoy its Sabbaths in its being desolate from them, and they themselves^[bk] must pay for their guilt, simply because^[bl] they rejected my regulations, and their inner self^[bm] abhorred my statutes. ⁴⁴ And in spite of^[bn] this, when they are^[bo] 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. ⁴⁵ And I will remember the first covenant for them^[bp]—whom I brought out from the land of Egypt in the sight of^[bq] the nations to be their God.^[br] I am Yahweh.'"

⁴⁶ These are the rules and the regulations and the laws that Yahweh gave between himself and the Israelites^[bs] on Mount Sinai^[bt] through^[bu] Moses.