February 9
Leviticus 26:1 — 27:34
26 “‘YOU must not make
valueless gods for yourselves, and YOU must not set up a carved image or a
sacred pillar for yourselves, and YOU must not put a stone as a showpiece in
YOUR land in order to bow down toward it; for I am Jehovah YOUR God.
2 YOU
should keep my sabbaths and stand in awe of my sanctuary. I am Jehovah.
3 “‘If YOU continue walking in my statutes and keeping my commandments and YOU do carry them out, 4 I shall also certainly give YOUR showers of rain at their proper time, and the land will indeed give its yield, and the tree of the field will give its fruit. 5 And YOUR threshing will certainly reach to YOUR grape gathering, and the grape gathering will reach to the sowing of seed; and YOU will indeed eat YOUR bread to satisfaction and dwell in security in YOUR land. 6 And I will put peace in the land, and YOU will indeed lie down, with no one making [YOU] tremble; and I will make the injurious wild beast cease out of the land, and a sword will not pass through YOUR land. 7 And YOU will certainly chase YOUR enemies, and they will indeed fall before YOU by the sword. 8 And five of YOU will certainly chase a hundred, and a hundred of YOU will chase ten thousand, and YOUR enemies will indeed fall before YOU by the sword.
9 “‘And I will turn myself to YOU and make YOU fruitful and multiply YOU, and I will carry out my covenant with YOU. 10 And YOU will certainly eat the old of the preceding year, and YOU will bring out the old ahead of the new. 11 And I shall certainly put my tabernacle in the midst of YOU, and my soul will not abhor YOU. 12 And I shall indeed walk in the midst of YOU and prove myself YOUR God, and YOU, on YOUR part, will prove yourselves my people. 13 I am Jehovah YOUR God, who brought YOU out of the land of Egypt from acting as slaves to them, and I proceeded to break the bars of YOUR yoke and make YOU walk erect.
14 “‘However, if YOU will not listen to me nor do all these commandments, 15 and if YOU will reject my statutes, and if YOUR souls will abhor my judicial decisions so as not to do all my commandments, to the extent of YOUR violating my covenant, 16 then I, for my part, shall do the following to YOU, and in punishment I shall certainly bring upon YOU disturbance with tuberculosis and burning fever, causing the eyes to fail and making the soul pine away. And YOU will simply sow YOUR seed for nothing, as YOUR enemies will certainly eat it up. 17 And I shall indeed set my face against YOU, and YOU will certainly be defeated before YOUR enemies; and those who hate YOU will just tread down upon YOU, and YOU will actually flee when no one is pursuing YOU.
18 “‘If, though, despite these things, YOU will not listen to me, I shall then have to chastise YOU seven times as much for YOUR sins. 19 And I shall have to break the pride of YOUR strength and make YOUR heavens like iron and YOUR earth like copper. 20 And YOUR power will simply be expended for nothing, as YOUR earth will not give its yield, and the tree of the earth will not give its fruit.
21 “‘But if YOU keep walking in opposition to me and not wishing to listen to me, I shall then have to inflict seven times more blows upon YOU according to YOUR sins. 22 And I will send the wild beasts of the field among YOU, and they will certainly bereave YOU of children and cut off YOUR domestic animals and reduce the number of YOU, and YOUR roads will actually be desolated.
23 “‘Nevertheless, if with these things YOU do not let yourselves be corrected by me and YOU just have to walk in opposition to me, 24 I, yes, I, shall then have to walk in opposition to YOU; and I, even I, shall have to strike YOU seven times for YOUR sins. 25 And I shall certainly bring upon YOU a sword wreaking vengeance for the covenant; and YOU will indeed gather yourselves into YOUR cities, and I shall certainly send pestilence into the midst of YOU, and YOU must be given into the hand of an enemy. 26 When I have broken for YOU the rods around which ring-shaped loaves are suspended, ten women will then actually bake YOUR bread in but one oven and give back YOUR bread by weight; and YOU must eat but YOU will not be satisfied.
27 “‘If, however, with this YOU will not listen to me and YOU just must walk in opposition to me, 28 I shall then have to walk in heated opposition to YOU, and I, yes, I, shall have to chastise YOU seven times for YOUR sins. 29 So YOU will have to eat the flesh of YOUR sons, and YOU will eat the flesh of YOUR daughters. 30 And I shall certainly annihilate YOUR sacred high places and cut off YOUR incense stands and lay YOUR own carcasses upon the carcasses of YOUR dungy idols; and my soul will simply abhor YOU. 31 And I shall indeed give YOUR cities to the sword and lay YOUR sanctuaries desolate, and I shall not smell YOUR restful odors. 32 And I, for my part, will lay the land desolate, and YOUR enemies who are dwelling in it will simply stare in amazement over it. 33 And YOU I shall scatter among the nations, and I will unsheathe a sword after YOU; and YOUR land must become a desolation, and YOUR cities will become a desolate ruin.
34 “‘At that time the land will pay off its sabbaths all the days of its lying desolated, while YOU are in the land of YOUR enemies. At that time the land will keep sabbath, as it must repay its sabbaths. 35 All the days of its lying desolated it will keep sabbath, for the reason that it did not keep sabbath during YOUR sabbaths when YOU were dwelling upon it.
36 “‘As for those remaining among YOU, I shall certainly bring timidity into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a leaf driven about will indeed chase them away, and they will actually flee as in flight from a sword and fall without anyone chasing. 37 And they will certainly stumble against one another as if from before a sword without anyone chasing, and for YOU there will prove to be no ability to stand [in resistance] before YOUR enemies. 38 And YOU must perish among the nations, and the land of YOUR enemies must eat YOU up. 39 As for those remaining among YOU, they will rot away because of their error in the lands of YOUR enemies. Yes, even because of the errors of their fathers, with them they will rot away. 40 And they will certainly confess their own error and the error of their fathers in their unfaithfulness when they behaved unfaithfully toward me, yes, even when they walked in opposition to me. 41 Yet I, for my part, proceeded to walk in opposition to them, and I had to bring them into the land of their enemies.
“‘Perhaps at that time their uncircumcised heart will be humbled, and at that time they will pay off their error. 42 And I shall indeed remember my covenant with Jacob; and even my covenant with Isaac and even my covenant with Abraham I shall remember, and the land I shall remember. 43 All the while the land was left abandoned by them and was paying off its sabbaths while it was lying desolated without them and they themselves were paying for their error, because, even because, they had rejected my judicial decisions, and their souls had abhorred my statutes. 44 And yet for all this, while they continue in the land of their enemies, I shall certainly not reject them nor abhor them so as to exterminate them, to violate my covenant with them; for I am Jehovah their God. 45 And I will remember in their behalf the covenant of the ancestors whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt under the eyes of the nations, in order to prove myself their God. I am Jehovah.’”
46 These
are the regulations and the judicial decisions and the laws that Jehovah set
between himself and the sons of Israel in Mount Sinai by means of Moses.
27 And Jehovah continued
to speak to Moses, saying:
2 “Speak to the sons of
Israel, and you must say to them, ‘In case a man makes a special vow offering of
souls to Jehovah according to the estimated value,
3 and
the estimated value has to be of a male from twenty years old up to sixty years
old, the estimated value must then become fifty shekels of silver by the shekel
of the holy place.
4 But if it is a female,
the estimated value must then become thirty shekels.
5 And
if the age is from five years old up to twenty years old, the estimated value of
the male must then become twenty shekels and for the female ten shekels.
6 And
if the age is from a month old up to five years old, the estimated value of the
male must then become five shekels of silver and for the female the estimated
value must be three shekels of silver.
7 “‘Now if the age is from sixty years old upward, if it is a male, the estimated value must then become fifteen shekels and for the female ten shekels. 8 But if he has become too poor for the estimated value, he must then stand the person before the priest, and the priest must put a valuation upon him. According to what the vower can afford, the priest will put a valuation upon him.
9 “‘And if it is a beast such as one presents in offering to Jehovah, everything of what he may give to Jehovah will become something holy. 10 He may not replace it, and he may not exchange it with good for bad or with bad for good. But if he should exchange it at all with beast for beast, it itself must then become and what is exchanged for it should become something holy. 11 And if it is any unclean beast such as one may not present in offering to Jehovah, he must then stand the beast before the priest. 12 And the priest must put a valuation upon it whether it is good or bad. According to the value estimated by the priest, so it should become. 13 But if he wants to buy it back at all, he must then give a fifth of it in addition to the estimated value.
14 “‘Now in case a man should sanctify his house as something holy to Jehovah, the priest must then make a valuation of it whether it is good or bad. According to what valuation the priest makes of it, so much it should cost. 15 But if the sanctifier wants to buy his house back, he must then give a fifth of the money of the estimated value in addition to it; and it must become his.
16 “‘And if it is some of the field of his possession that a man would sanctify to Jehovah, the value must then be estimated in proportion to its seed: if a homer of barley seed, then at fifty shekels of silver. 17 If he should sanctify his field from the year of Jubilee on, it should cost according to the estimated value. 18 And if it is after the Jubilee that he sanctifies his field, the priest must then calculate for him the price in proportion to the years that are left over until the next year of Jubilee, and a deduction should be made from the estimated value. 19 But if the sanctifier of it would at all buy the field back, he must then give a fifth of the money of the estimated value in addition to it, and it must stand fast as his. 20 Now if he should not buy the field back but if the field is sold to another man, it may not be bought back again. 21 And the field when it goes out in the Jubilee must become something holy to Jehovah, as a field that is devoted. The possession of it will become the priest’s.
22 “‘And if he sanctifies to Jehovah a field purchased by him that is no part of the field of his possession, 23 the priest must then calculate for him the amount of the valuation up till the year of Jubilee, and he must give the estimated value on that day. It is something holy to Jehovah. 24 In the year of Jubilee the field will return to the one from whom he bought it, to the one to whom the possession of the land belongs.
25 “‘Now every value should be estimated in the shekel of the holy place. The shekel should amount to twenty gerahs.
26 “‘Only the firstborn among beasts, which is born as the firstborn for Jehovah, no man should sanctify it. Whether bull or sheep, it belongs to Jehovah. 27 And if it is among the unclean beasts and he must redeem it according to the estimated value, he must then give a fifth of it in addition to it. But if it should not be bought back, it must then be sold according to the estimated value.
28 “‘Only no sort of devoted thing that a man might devote to Jehovah for destruction out of all that is his, whether from mankind or beasts or from the field of his possession, may be sold, and no sort of devoted thing may be bought back. It is something most holy to Jehovah. 29 No devoted person who might be devoted to destruction from among mankind may be redeemed. He should be put to death without fail.
30 “‘And every tenth part of the land, out of the seed of the land and the fruit of the tree, belongs to Jehovah. It is something holy to Jehovah. 31 And if a man wants to buy any of his tenth part back at all, he should give a fifth of it in addition to it. 32 As for every tenth part of the herd and flock, everything that passes under the crook, the tenth head should become something holy to Jehovah. 33 He should not examine whether it is good or bad, neither should he exchange it. But if he would exchange it at all, it itself must then become and what is exchanged for it should become something holy. It may not be bought back.’”
34 These are the commandments that Jehovah gave Moses as commands to the sons of Israel in Mount Sinai.