Holy Bible
(King James Version)
Leviticus:
Chapter 26
1. 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.
2.Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.
3. If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by
the sword.
8. 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.
9. For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply
you, and establish my covenant with you.
10. And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the
new.
11. And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor
you.
12. And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my
people.
13. 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.
14. But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these
commandments;
15. 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:
16. 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.
17. 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.
18. And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will
punish you seven times more for your sins.
19. And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your
heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:
20. 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.
21. 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.
22. 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.
23. And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk
contrary unto me;
24. Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet
seven times for your sins.
25. 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.
26. 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.
27. And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary
unto me;
28. Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will
chastise you seven times for your sins.
29. And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your
daughters shall ye eat.
30. 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.
31. And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto
desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.
32. And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which
dwell therein shall be astonished at it.
33. 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.
34. 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.
35. As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest
in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.
36. 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.
37. 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.
38. And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies
shall eat you up.
39. 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.
40. 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;
41. 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:
42. 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.
43. 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.
44. 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.
45. 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.
46. 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.
Feb. 20 Daily reading schedule.. go to chapter 27
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