‘You shall not make for yourselves ^aidols, nor shall you set up for yourselves ^ba carved image or ^ca memorial stone, nor shall you place a ^dfigured stone in your land to bow down ¹to it; for I am the LORD your God. 2 ^aYou shall keep My Sabbaths and revere My sanctuary; I am the LORD. 3 ^aIf you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments so as to carry them out, 4 then ^aI 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 ^aIndeed, your threshing season will last for you until grape gathering, and grape gathering will last until sowing time. So you will eat your ¹food to the full and ^blive securely in your land. 6 ^aI shall also grant peace in the land, so that ^byou may lie down, with no one to make you afraid. ^cI shall also eliminate harmful animals from the land, and ^dno sword will pass through your land. 7 Instead, you will chase your enemies, and they will fall before you by the sword; 8 ^afive 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 ^amake you fruitful and multiply you, and I will ^bconfirm My covenant with you. 10 And ^ayou will eat the old supply, and clear out the old because of the new. 11 ^aMoreover, I will make My ¹dwelling among you, and My soul will not ²reject you. 12 ^aI will also walk among you and be your God, and you shall be My people. 13 ^aI am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so that you would not be their slaves, and ^bI broke your yoke and made you walk erect.

14 ‘^aBut if you do not obey Me and do not carry out all these commandments, 15 if, instead, you ^areject My statutes, and if your soul loathes My ordinances so as not to carry out all My commandments, but rather to ^bbreak My covenant, 16 I, in turn, will do this to you: I will ¹summon a ^asudden terror against you, consumption and fever that will make the eyes fail and the ^bsoul languish; also, ^cyou 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 ^athose who hate you will rule over you, and ^byou will flee when no one is pursuing you. 18 If also after these things you do not obey Me, then I will punish you ^aseven times more for your sins. 19 I will also ^abreak down your pride of power; and I will make your sky like iron and your earth like bronze. 20 ^aYour 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 ^1ashow hostility toward Me and are unwilling to obey Me, I will increase the plague on you ^bseven times according to your sins. 22 ^aI 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 ^byour roads become deserted.

23 ‘^aAnd if by these things you do not learn your lesson regarding Me, but you show hostility toward Me, 24 then I in turn will ^ashow hostility toward you; and I, even I, will strike you ^bseven times for your sins. 25 I will also bring upon you a sword which will execute ^avengeance for the covenant; and when you gather together into your cities, I will send a ^bplague among you, so that you will be handed over to the enemy. 26 ^aWhen I break your staff of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven, and they will bring back your bread ¹in rationed amounts, so that you will ^beat and not be satisfied.

27 ‘Yet if in spite of this you do not obey Me, but act with hostility against Me, 28 then ^aI will act with wrathful hostility against you, and I for My part will punish you seven times for your sins. 29 Further, ^ayou will eat the flesh of your sons, and you will eat the flesh of your daughters. 30 I then ^awill destroy your high places, and cut down your ^bincense altars, and ¹pile your ²remains on the ³remains of your idols, for My soul will loathe you. 31 I will turn your cities into ^aruins as well and make your ^bsanctuaries desolate, and I will not ^csmell your soothing aromas. 32 And I will make ^athe land desolate ^bso that your enemies who settle in it will be appalled at it. 33 You, however, I ^awill scatter among the nations, and I will draw out a sword after you, as your land becomes desolate and your cities become ruins.

34 ‘^aThen 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 ^adespair 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 ¹as though from the sword, and they will fall. 37 ^aThey 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, ^ayou will perish among the nations, and your enemies’ land will consume you. 39 ^aSo 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 ^aif 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—^aor if their uncircumcised heart is humbled so that ^bthey then make amends for their wrongdoing, 42 then I will remember ^aMy covenant with Jacob, and I will remember also ^bMy covenant with Isaac, and ^cMy covenant with Abraham as well, and I will remember the land. 43 ^aFor 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, ¹because they rejected My ordinances and their ^bsoul 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 ^aloathe them as ^bto destroy them, ^cbreaking My covenant with them; for I am the LORD their God. 45 But I will remember for them the ^acovenant with their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, so that ^bI might be their God. I am the LORD.’”

46 ^aThese are the statutes and ordinances and laws which the LORD established between Himself and the sons of Israel ¹through Moses on Mount Sinai.