Leviticus 26-27

New King James Version

Promise of Blessing and Retribution^(A)

26 ‘You shall ^(B)not make idols for yourselves;

neither a carved image nor a sacred pillar shall you rear up for yourselves;

nor shall you set up an engraved stone in your land, to bow down to it;

for I am the Lord your God.

²^(C)You shall ^[a]keep My Sabbaths and reverence My sanctuary:

I am the Lord.

³^(D)‘If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments, and perform them,

⁴^(E)then I will give you rain in its season, ^(F)the land shall yield its produce, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

⁵^(G)Your threshing shall last till the time of vintage, and the vintage shall last till the time of sowing;

you shall eat your bread to the full, and ^(H)dwell in your land safely.

⁶^(I)I will give peace in the land, and ^(J)you shall lie down, and none will make you afraid;

I will rid the land of ^(K)evil^[b] beasts,

and ^(L)the sword will not go through your land.

⁷You will chase your enemies, and they shall fall by the sword before you.

⁸^(M)Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight;

your enemies shall fall by the sword before you.

⁹‘For I will ^(N)look on you favorably and ^(O)make you fruitful, multiply you and confirm My ^(P)covenant with you.

¹⁰You shall eat the ^(Q)old harvest, and clear out the old because of the new.

¹¹^(R)I will set My ^[c]tabernacle among you, and My soul shall not abhor you.

¹²^(S)I will walk among you and be your God, and you shall be My people.

¹³I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves;

I have broken the bands of your ^(T)yoke and made you walk ^[d]upright.

¹⁴‘But if you do not obey Me, and do not observe all these commandments,

¹⁵and if you despise My statutes, or if your soul abhors My judgments, so that you do not perform all My commandments, but break My covenant,

¹⁶I also will do this to you:

I will even appoint terror over you, ^(U)wasting disease and fever which shall ^(V)consume the eyes and ^(W)cause sorrow of heart.

And ^(X)you shall sow your seed ^[e]in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

¹⁷I will ^[f]set ^(Y)My face against you, and ^(Z)you shall be defeated by your enemies.

^(AA)Those who hate you shall reign over you, and you shall ^(AB)flee when no one pursues you.

¹⁸‘And after all this, if you do not obey Me, then I will punish you ^(AC)seven times more for your sins.

¹⁹I will ^(AD)break the pride of your power;

I ^(AE)will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze.

²⁰And your ^(AF)strength shall be spent in vain;

for your ^(AG)land shall not yield its produce, nor shall the trees of the land yield their fruit.

²¹‘Then, if you walk contrary to Me, and are not willing to obey Me, I will bring on you seven times more plagues, according to your sins.

²²^(AH)I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number;

and ^(AI)your highways shall be desolate.

²³‘And if ^(AJ)by these things you are not reformed by Me, but walk contrary to Me,

²⁴^(AK)then I also will walk contrary to you, and I will punish you yet seven times for your sins.

²⁵And ^(AL)I will bring a sword against you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant;

when you are gathered together within your cities ^(AM)I will send pestilence among you;

and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

²⁶^(AN)When I have cut off your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall bring back your bread by weight, ^(AO)and you shall eat and not be satisfied.

²⁷‘And after all this, if you do not obey Me, but walk contrary to Me,

²⁸then I also will walk contrary to you in fury;

and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.

²⁹^(AP)You^[g] shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters.

³⁰^(AQ)I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and cast your carcasses on the lifeless forms of your idols;

and My soul shall abhor you.

³¹I will lay your ^(AR)cities waste and ^(AS)bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not ^(AT)smell the fragrance of your ^[h]sweet aromas.

³²^(AU)I will bring the land to desolation, and your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished at it.

³³^(AV)I will scatter you among the nations and draw out a sword after you;

your land shall be desolate and your cities waste.

³⁴^(AW)Then the land shall enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies’ land;

then the land shall rest and enjoy its sabbaths.

³⁵As long as it lies desolate it shall rest—

for the time it did not rest on your ^(AX)sabbaths when you dwelt in it.

³⁶‘And as for those of you who are left, I will send ^(AY)faintness^[i] into their hearts in the lands of their enemies;

the sound of a shaken leaf shall cause them to flee;

they shall flee as though fleeing from a sword, and they shall fall when no one pursues.

³⁷^(AZ)They shall stumble over one another, as it were before a sword, when no one pursues;

and ^(BA)you shall have no power to stand before your enemies.

³⁸You shall ^(BB)perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.

³⁹And those of you who are left ^(BC)shall ^[j]waste away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands;

also in their ^(BD)fathers’ iniquities, which are with them, they shall waste away.

⁴⁰‘But ^(BE)if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, with their unfaithfulness in which they were unfaithful to Me, and that they also have walked contrary to Me,

⁴¹and that I also have walked contrary to them and have brought them into the land of their enemies;

if their ^(BF)uncircumcised hearts are ^(BG)humbled, and they ^(BH)accept their guilt—

⁴²then I will ^(BI)remember My covenant with Jacob, and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham I will remember;

I will ^(BJ)remember the land.

⁴³^(BK)The land also shall be left empty by them, and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them;

they will accept their guilt, because they ^(BL)despised My judgments and because their soul abhorred My statutes.

⁴⁴Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, ^(BM)I will not cast them away, nor shall I abhor them, to utterly destroy them and break My covenant with them;

for I am the Lord their God.

⁴⁵But ^(BN)for their sake I will remember the covenant of their ancestors, ^(BO)whom I brought out of the land of Egypt ^(BP)in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God:

I am the Lord.’ ”

⁴⁶^(BQ)These are the statutes and judgments and laws which the Lord made between Himself and the children of Israel ^(BR)on Mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.

Redeeming Persons and Property Dedicated to God

27 Now the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ²“Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ^(BS)‘When a man ^[k]consecrates by a vow certain persons to the Lord, according to your ^[l]valuation, ³if your valuation is of a male from twenty years old up to sixty years old, then your valuation shall be fifty shekels of silver, ^(BT)according to the shekel of the sanctuary. ⁴If it is a female, then your valuation shall be thirty shekels; ⁵and if from five years old up to twenty years old, then your valuation for a male shall be twenty shekels, and for a female ten shekels; ⁶and if from a month old up to five years old, then your valuation for a male shall be five shekels of silver, and for a female your valuation shall be three shekels of silver; ⁷and if from sixty years old and above, if it is a male, then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels.

⁸‘But if he is too poor to pay your valuation, then he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest shall set a value for ^(BU)him; according to the ability of him who vowed, the priest shall value him.

⁹‘If it is an animal that men may bring as an offering to the Lord, all that anyone gives to the Lord shall be holy. ¹⁰He shall not substitute it or exchange it, good for bad or bad for good; and if he at all exchanges animal for animal, then both it and the one exchanged for it shall be ^(BV)holy. ¹¹If it is an unclean animal which they do not offer as a sacrifice to the Lord, then he shall present the animal before the priest; ¹²and the priest shall set a value for it, whether it is good or bad; as you, the priest, value it, so it shall be. ¹³^(BW)But if he wants at all to redeem it, then he must add one-fifth to your valuation.

¹⁴‘And when a man ^[m]dedicates his house to be holy to the Lord, then the priest shall set a value for it, whether it is good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall stand. ¹⁵If he who dedicated it wants to ^[n]redeem his house, then he must add one-fifth of the money of your valuation to it, and it shall be his.

¹⁶‘If a man ^[o]dedicates to the Lord part of a field of his possession, then your valuation shall be according to the seed for it. A homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver. ¹⁷If he dedicates his field from the Year of Jubilee, according to your valuation it shall stand. ¹⁸But if he dedicates his field after the Jubilee, then the priest shall ^(BX)reckon to him the money due according to the years that remain till the Year of Jubilee, and it shall be deducted from your valuation. ¹⁹And if he who dedicates the field ever wishes to redeem it, then he must add one-fifth of the money of your valuation to it, and it shall belong to him. ²⁰But if he does not want to redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed anymore; ²¹but the field, ^(BY)when it is released in the Jubilee, shall be holy to the Lord, as a ^(BZ)devoted field; it shall be ^(CA)the possession of the priest.

²²‘And if a man dedicates to the Lord a field which he has bought, which is not the field of ^(CB)his possession, ²³then the priest shall reckon to him the worth of your valuation, up to the Year of Jubilee, and he shall give your valuation on that day as a holy offering to the Lord. ²⁴^(CC)In the Year of Jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, to the one who owned the land as a possession. ²⁵And all your valuations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: ^(CD)twenty gerahs to the shekel.

²⁶‘But the ^(CE)firstborn of the animals, which should be the Lord’s firstborn, no man shall dedicate; whether it is an ox or sheep, it is the Lord’s. ²⁷And if it is an unclean animal, then he shall redeem it according to your valuation, and ^(CF)shall add one-fifth to it; or if it is not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your valuation.

²⁸^(CG)‘Nevertheless no ^[p]devoted offering that a man may devote to the Lord of all that he has, both man and beast, or the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed; every devoted offering is most holy to the Lord. ²⁹^(CH)No person under the ban, who may become doomed to destruction among men, shall be redeemed, but shall surely be put to death. ³⁰And ^(CI)all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the tree, is the Lord’s. It is holy to the Lord. ³¹^(CJ)If a man wants at all to redeem any of his tithes, he shall add one-fifth to it. ³²And concerning the tithe of the herd or the flock, of whatever ^(CK)passes under the rod, the tenth one shall be holy to the Lord. ³³He shall not inquire whether it is good or bad, ^(CL)nor shall he exchange it; and if he exchanges it at all, then both it and the one exchanged for it shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.’ ”