Chapter 26

  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 to 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 to the vintage, and the vintage shall reach to 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 the land of evil beasts, 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 a hundred, and a 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 to 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 will 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, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bond-men, and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright.  

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  But if ye will not hearken to me, and will not do all these commandments;  

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  And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul shall 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 to 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 to 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 shall walk contrary to me, and will not hearken to 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 to me;  

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  Then will I also walk contrary to you, and I 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 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 broke 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 to me, but walk contrary to me;  

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  Then I will walk contrary to 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 carcasses upon the carcasses of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.  

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  And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not smell the savor of your sweet odors.  

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  And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies who dwell in it 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 its sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye are in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy its 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 to me;  

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  And that I also have walked contrary to them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts shall 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 by 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 shall 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 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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