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The Third Book of Moses: Called Leviticus, Chapter 26
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Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up
a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your
land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God.
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Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the
LORD.
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If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;
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Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield
her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
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And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage
shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the
full, and dwell in your land safely.
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And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and
none shall make you afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of the
land, neither shall the sword go through your land.
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And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you
by the sword.
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And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you
shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before
you by the sword.
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For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and
multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.
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And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of
the new.
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And I set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor
you.
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And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be
my people.
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I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land
of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the
bands of your yoke, and made you go upright.
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But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these
commandments;
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And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your
soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments,
but that ye break my covenant:
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I also will do this unto you; I
will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague,
that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall
sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
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And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before
your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall
flee when none pursueth you.
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And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will
punish you seven times more for your sins.
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And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your
heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:
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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 fruits.
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And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I
will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.
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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 high ways shall be desolate.
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And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will
walk contrary unto me;
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Then will I also walk contrary unto you,
and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.
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And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel
of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities,
I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into
the hand of the enemy.
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And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall
bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread
again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.
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And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk
contrary unto me;
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Then I will walk contrary unto you also in
fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.
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And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your
daughters shall ye eat.
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And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images,
and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul
shall abhor you.
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And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries
unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.
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And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies
which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.
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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.
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Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth
desolate, and ye be in your enemies' land; even then shall the land
rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.
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As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not
rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.
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And upon them that 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 pursueth.
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And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword,
when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your
enemies.
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And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your
enemies shall eat you up.
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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.
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If 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 unto me;
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And that I also
have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of
their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they
then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:
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Then will I
remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and
also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the
land.
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The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her
sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept
of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they
despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.
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And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies,
I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them
utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their
God.
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But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their
ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight
of the heathen, that I might be their God: I am the LORD.
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These are the statutes and judgments and laws, which the LORD
made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand
of Moses.
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