Lev 26:3-27:34 | NASB2020 | STEP | If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments so as to carry them out ,

Leviticus 26:3-46

3 ^aIf you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments so as to carry them out, 4 then ^bI shall give you rains in their season, so that the land will yield its produce and the trees of the field will bear their fruit. 5 ^cIndeed, your threshing season will last for you until grape gathering, and grape gathering will last until sowing time. So you will eat your ^{▼▼Lit bread}food to the full and ^elive securely in your land. 6 ^fI shall also grant peace in the land, so that ^gyou may lie down, with no one to make you afraid. ^hI shall also eliminate harmful animals from the land, and ⁱno sword will pass through your land. 7 Instead, you will chase your enemies, and they will fall before you by the sword; 8 ^jfive of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand; and your enemies will fall before you by the sword. 9 So I will turn toward you and ^kmake you fruitful and multiply you, and I will ^lconfirm My covenant with you. 10 And ^myou will eat the old supply, and clear out the old because of the new. 11 ⁿMoreover, I will make My ^{▼▼Or tabernacle}dwelling among you, and My soul will not ^{▼▼Lit abhor}reject you. 12 ^qI will also walk among you and be your God, and you shall be My people. 13 ^rI am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so that you would not be their slaves, and ^sI broke your yoke and made you walk erect.

Penalties of Disobedience

14 ‘ ^tBut if you do not obey Me and do not carry out all these commandments, 15 if, instead, you ^ureject My statutes, and if your soul loathes My ordinances so as not to carry out all My commandments, but rather to ^vbreak My covenant, 16 I, in turn, will do this to you: I will ^{▼▼Or impose...on you}summon a ^xsudden terror against you, consumption and fever that will make the eyes fail and the ^ysoul languish; also, ^zyou will sow your seed uselessly, for your enemies will eat it. 17 And I will set My face against you so that you will be defeated before your enemies; and ^aathose who hate you will rule over you, and ^abyou will flee when no one is pursuing you. 18 If also after these things you do not obey Me, then I will punish you ^acseven times more for your sins. 19 I will also ^adbreak down your pride of power; and I will make your sky like iron and your earth like bronze. 20 ^aeYour strength will be consumed uselessly, for your land will not yield its produce and the trees of the land will not yield their fruit.

21 ‘Yet if you ^{▼▼Lit walk with Me hostilely, and so throughout the ch
,} ^agshow hostility toward Me and are unwilling to obey Me, I will increase the plague on you ^ahseven times according to your sins. 22 ^aiI will also let loose among you the animals of the field, which will deprive you of your children and eliminate your cattle, and reduce your number so that ^ajyour roads become deserted.

23 ‘ ^akAnd if by these things you do not learn your lesson regarding Me, but you show hostility toward Me, 24 then I in turn will ^alshow hostility toward you; and I, even I, will strike you ^amseven times for your sins. 25 I will also bring upon you a sword which will execute ^anvengeance for the covenant; and when you gather together into your cities, I will send a ^aoplague among you, so that you will be handed over to the enemy. 26 ^apWhen I break your staff of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven, and they will bring back your bread ^{▼▼Lit by weight}in rationed amounts, so that you will ^areat and not be satisfied.

27 ‘Yet if in spite of this you do not obey Me, but act with hostility against Me, 28 then ^asI will act with wrathful hostility against you, and I for My part will punish you seven times for your sins. 29 Further, ^atyou will eat the flesh of your sons, and you will eat the flesh of your daughters. 30 I then ^auwill destroy your high places, and cut down your ^avincense altars, and ^{▼▼Lit give}pile your ^{▼▼Lit corpses}remains on the ^{▼▼Lit corpses}remains of your idols, for My soul will loathe you. 31 I will turn your cities into ^azruins as well and make your ^basanctuaries desolate, and I will not ^bbsmell your soothing aromas. 32 And I will make ^bcthe land desolate ^bdso that your enemies who settle in it will be appalled at it. 33 You, however, I ^bewill scatter among the nations, and I will draw out a sword after you, as your land becomes desolate and your cities become ruins.

34 ‘ ^bfThen the land will restore its Sabbaths all the days of the desolation, while you are in your enemies’ land; then the land will rest and restore its Sabbaths. 35 All the days of its desolation it will have the rest which it did not have on your Sabbaths, while you were living on it. 36 As for those among you who are left, I will also bring ^bgdespair into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. And the sound of a scattered leaf will chase them, and even when no one is pursuing they will flee ^{▼▼Lit the flight of the sword}as though from the sword, and they will fall. 37 ^biThey will then stumble over each other as if running from the sword, although no one is pursuing; and you will have no strength to stand before your enemies. 38 Instead, ^bjyou will perish among the nations, and your enemies’ land will consume you. 39 ^bkSo those of you who may be left will rot away because of their wrongdoing in the lands of your enemies; and also because of the wrongdoing of their forefathers they will rot away with them.

40 ‘But ^blif they confess their wrongdoing and the wrongdoing of their forefathers, in their unfaithfulness which they committed against Me, and also in their acting with hostility against Me-- 41 I also was acting with hostility against them, to bring them into the land of their enemies-- ^bmor if their uncircumcised heart is humbled so that ^bnthey then make amends for their wrongdoing, 42 then I will remember ^boMy covenant with Jacob, and I will remember also ^bpMy covenant with Isaac, and ^bqMy covenant with Abraham as well, and I will remember the land. 43 ^brFor the land will be abandoned by them, and will restore its Sabbaths while it is made desolate without them. They, meanwhile, will be making amends for their wrongdoing, ^{▼▼Lit because and by the cause}because they rejected My ordinances and their ^btsoul loathed My statutes. 44 Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, nor will I so ^buloathe them as ^bvto destroy them, ^bwbreaking My covenant with them; for I am the Lord their God. 45 But I will remember for them the ^bxcovenant with their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, so that ^byI might be their God. I am the Lord.’”

46 ^bzThese are the statutes and ordinances and laws which the Lord established between Himself and the sons of Israel ^{▼▼Lit by the hand of}through Moses on Mount Sinai.

Leviticus 27

Rules concerning Assessments

1 Again, the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘ ^cbWhen someone makes an explicit vow, he shall be valued according to your assessment of persons belonging to the Lord. 3 If your assessment is of a male from twenty years even to sixty years old, then your assessment shall be fifty shekels of silver, by ^ccthe shekel of the sanctuary. 4 Or if ^{▼▼Lit she}the person is a female, then your assessment shall be thirty shekels. 5 And if the person is from five years even to twenty years old, then your assessment for a male shall be twenty shekels, and for a female, ten shekels. 6 But if the person is from a month even up to five years old, then your assessment shall be ^cefive shekels of silver for a male, and for a female your assessment shall be three shekels of silver. 7 If the person is from sixty years old and upward, if a male, then your assessment shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female, ten shekels. 8 But if he is poorer than your assessment, then he shall be presented before the priest, and the priest shall assess him; ^cfaccording to ^{▼▼Lit what the hand reaches}the means of the one who vowed, the priest shall assess him.

9 ‘Now if it is an animal of the kind that ^{▼▼Lit they}one can present as an offering to the Lord, any such animal that one gives to the Lord shall be holy. 10 ^ciHe shall not replace it nor exchange it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good; yet if he does exchange animal for animal, then both it and its substitute shall become holy. 11 If, however, it is any unclean animal of the kind which ^{▼▼Lit they}one does not present as an offering to the Lord, then he shall place the animal before the priest. 12 And the priest shall assess it ^{▼▼Lit between}as either good or bad; as you, the priest, assess it, so shall it be. 13 But if he should ever want to redeem it, then he shall add a fifth of it to your assessment.

14 ‘Now if someone consecrates his house as holy to the Lord, then the priest shall assess it ^{▼▼Lit between good}as either good or bad; as the priest assesses it, so shall it stand. 15 Yet if the one who consecrates it should want to redeem his house, then he shall add a fifth of your assessment price to it, so that it may be his.

16 ‘Again, if someone consecrates to the Lord part of the field of his own property, then your assessment shall be ^{▼▼Lit according to its seed}proportionate to the seed needed for it: a ^{▼▼About 7.7 cubic feet or 0.22 cubic meters}homer of barley seed at fifty shekels of silver. 17 If he consecrates his field as of the year of jubilee, according to your assessment it shall stand. 18 If he consecrates his field after the jubilee, however, then the priest shall calculate the price for ^{▼▼Or it}him ^{▼▼Lit according to the years}proportionate to the years that are left until the year of jubilee; and it shall be deducted from your assessment. 19 If the one who consecrates it should ever want to redeem the field, then he shall add a fifth of your assessment price to it, so that it may belong to him. 20 Yet if he does not redeem the field, ^{▼▼Or if he}but has sold the field to another person, it may no longer be redeemed; 21 and when it ^{▼▼Lit goes out}reverts in the jubilee, the field shall be holy to the Lord, like a field banned from secular use; ^csit shall be for the priest as his property. 22 Or if he consecrates to the Lord a field which he has bought, which is not a part of the field of his own property, 23 then the priest shall calculate for ^{▼▼Or it}him the amount of your assessment up to the year of jubilee; and he shall on that day give your assessment as holy to the Lord. 24 In the year of jubilee the field shall return to the one from whom he bought it, to whom the possession of the land belongs. 25 Every assessment of yours, moreover, shall be by ^cuthe shekel of the sanctuary. The shekel shall be twenty gerahs.

26 ‘ ^cvHowever, a firstborn among animals, which as a firstborn belongs to the Lord, no one may consecrate; whether ox or sheep, it is the Lord’s. 27 But if it is among the unclean animals, then he shall ^{▼▼Or ransom}redeem it according to your assessment and add to it a fifth of it; and if it is not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your assessment.

28 ‘Nevertheless, ^{▼▼Lit anything banned
,} ^cyanything which someone sets apart to the Lord for ^{▼▼I.e., as an offering}destruction out of all that he has, of man or animal or of the field of his own property, shall not be sold nor redeemed. Anything set apart for destruction is most holy to the Lord. 29 No ^{▼▼Lit one devoted; or banned}one who may have been ^{▼▼Lit put under the ban}set apart among mankind shall be ransomed; he must be put to death.

30 ‘Now ^dcall the tithe of the land, of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the tree, is the Lord’s; it is holy to the Lord. 31 If, therefore, someone should ever want to redeem part of his tithe, he shall add to it a fifth of it. 32 For every tenth part of herd or flock, whatever ^ddpasses under the rod, the tenth one shall be holy to the Lord. 33 ^deHe is not to be concerned whether it is good or bad, nor shall he exchange it; yet if he does exchange it, then both it and its substitute shall become holy. It shall not be redeemed.’”

34 ^dfThese are the commandments which the Lord commanded Moses for the sons of Israel on Mount Sinai.