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¹ Ye shall not make unto you idols, - neither image nor pillar, shall ye set up for yourselves, nor sculptured stone, shall ye place in your land, to bow yourselves down thereunto,-For, I Yahweh, am your God.² My sabbaths, shall ye observe, And, my sanctuary, shall ye revere, - I, am Yahweh.³ If, in my statutes, ye will walk, - And my commandments, ye will observe, and do them,⁴ Then will I give your rains in their season, - And the land shall yield her increase, And, the trees of the field, shall yield their fruit.⁵ Then shall your threshing reach unto the vintage, And, the vintage, shall reach unto the seedtime, - And ye shall eat your food to the full, And shall dwell securely in your land.⁶ And I will give peace in the land, And ye shall lie down, and nothing shall make you afraid; And I will take away vicious beasts out of the land; And, the sword, shall not go through your land.⁷ And ye shall chase your foes, - And they shall fall before you by the sword;⁸ And, five, of you shall chase, a hundred, And, a hundred, of you shall put ten thousand to flight, - So shall your foes fall before you, by the sword.⁹ And I will turn unto you, And make you fruitful, - And multiply you, And will establish my covenant with you.¹⁰ And ye shall eat old store well seasoned, - And the old from before the new, shall ye put forth.¹¹ And I will set my habitation in your midst, - And my soul shall not abhor you;¹² But I will walk to and fro in your midst, And will be unto you a God, And, ye, shall be unto me a people.¹³ I - Yahweh, am your God who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; so I brake in pieces the staves of your yoke, and caused you to walk, erect.

¹⁴ But, if ye will not hearken unto me, And will not do all these commandments;¹⁵ And if, my statutes, ye refuse, And, my regulations, your souls shall abhor, - So that ye will not do all my commandments, But shall break my covenant¹⁶ I also, will do this unto you - I will set over you, for terror, consumption and fever, Causing the eyes to fail and the soul to pine away, - And ye shall sow, in vain, your seed, for it shall be eaten by your foes. ¹⁷ And I will set my face against you, And ye shall be smitten before your foes,-And be trodden down by them who hate you, And shall flee when no one is pursuing you.¹⁸ And, if even with these things, ye will not hearken unto me, Then will I yet further correct you seven times, for your sins.¹⁹ So will I break your pomp of power, And will set your heavens as iron, and your land as bronze;²⁰ And your strength shall be spent in vain, - And your land shall not yield her increase, And the trees of the land, shall not yield their fruit.²¹ If therefore, ye will go in opposition to me, And not be willing to hearken unto me, Then will I yet further plague you seven times according to your sins;²² And will send among you the wild-beast of the field And it shall rob you of your children, And cut off your cattle, And make you few in number; And your roads shall be silent.²³ And, if, by these things, ye will not be corrected by me, - But will go in opposition to me,²⁴ Then will, I also, go in opposition to you. And, I, even I, will plague you seven times for your sins;²⁵ And will bring in upon you a sword that shall inflict the covenanted avenging: So shall ye be gathered into your cities, - Then will I send a pestilence into your midst, And ye shall be delivered into the hand of an enemy.²⁶ When I have broken your staff of bread, then shall ten women bake your bread in one oven, And give back your bread by weight, - And ye shall eat and not be filled.²⁷ And, if, with this, ye will not hearken to me, - But will go in opposition to me,²⁸ Then will I go in a rage of opposition to you, - And I, even I, will correct you seven times for your sins;²⁹ And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, - Yea, even the flesh of your daughters, shall ye eat.³⁰ And I will destroy your high places And cut down your sun-pillars, And cast your caresses upon the calluses of your manufactured gods, - Thus shall my soul abhor you.³¹ And I will give your cities unto desolation, And make your holy places dumb, - And will find no fragrance in your satisfying odour;³² And, I, will make the land dumb, And your foes that dwell therein shall regard it with dumb amazement:³³ When, even you, I scatter among the nations, And make bare after you, a sword, Then shall your land become an astonishment, And your cities become a desolation.³⁴ Then, shall the land be paid her sabbaths, All the days she lieth desolate, While, ye, are in the land of your fees, - Then, shall the land keep sabbath, And pay off her sabbaths:³⁵ All the days she lieth desolate, shall she keep sabbath, - the which she kept not as your sabbaths, - while ye dwelt thereupon.³⁶ And as for such as are left of you, Then will I bring faintness into their heart, in the lands of their foes, - So that the sound of a driven leaf shall chase them, And they shall flee as though fleeing from a sword And they shall fall, when no one is pursuing;³⁷ And they shall stumble one upon another as from before a sword, when, pursuer there is none; And ye shall not have wherewith to stand before your foes;³⁸ And ye shall perish among the nations, - And the land of your fees shall eat you up;³⁹ And they who are left of you, shall melt away in their iniquity, in the lands of your foes; Yea also, in the iniquity of their fathers with them, shall they melt away.

⁴⁰ Then shall they confess their iniquity, And the iniquity of their fathers, In their unfaithfulness wherewith they had been unfaithful towards me; Yea moreover, because they had gone in opposition to me,⁴¹ I also, must needs go in opposition to them, and bring them into the land of their foes, - Save only that, if, even then, their uncircumcised heart shall be humbled, And, even then, they shall accept as a payment the punishment of their iniquity,⁴² Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob Yea moreover, my covenant with Isaac, Yea moreover, my covenant with Abraham, will I remember; And the land, will I remember.⁴³ For, the land, shall be left of them, And shall be paid her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them, They also, accepting, as a payment, the punishment of their iniquity, Because, yea because, my regulations, they refused, And my statutes, their soul abhorred.⁴⁴ And yet even so when they are in the land of their foes I have not refused them Neither have I abhorred them To make an end of them, To break my covenant with them, - For, I - Yahweh, am their God.⁴⁵ Therefore will I remember in their behalf the covenant of their ancestors, - Whom, I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God - I - Yahweh.⁴⁶ These are the statutes and the regulations and the laws, which Yahweh granted between himself, and the sons of Israel, - in Mount Sinai by the mediation of Moses.