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Blessings of Obedience |
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| Leviticus 26:1 |
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'You shall not make for yourselves idols, nor
shall you set up for yourselves an image or a sacred pillar, nor shall you place
a figured stone in your land to bow down to it; for I am the LORD your God. |
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| Leviticus 26:2 |
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You shall keep My sabbaths and reverence My
sanctuary; I am the LORD. |
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| Leviticus 26:3 |
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If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments
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| Leviticus 26:4 |
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then I 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. |
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| Leviticus 26:5 |
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Indeed, your threshing will last for you until
grape gathering, and grape gathering will last until sowing time. You will thus
eat your food to the full and live securely in your land. |
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| Leviticus 26:6 |
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I shall also grant peace in the land, so that
you may lie down with no one making you tremble. I shall also eliminate harmful
beasts from the land, and no sword will pass through your land. |
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| Leviticus 26:7 |
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But you will chase your enemies and they will
fall before you by the sword; |
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| Leviticus 26:8 |
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five 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. |
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| Leviticus 26:9 |
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So I will turn toward you and make you fruitful
and multiply you, and I will confirm My covenant with you. |
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| Leviticus 26:10 |
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You will eat the old supply and clear out the
old because of the new. |
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| Leviticus 26:11 |
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Moreover, I will make My dwelling among you,
and My soul will not reject you. |
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| Leviticus 26:12 |
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I will also walk among you and be your God,
and you shall be My people. |
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| Leviticus 26:13 |
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I am the LORD your God, who brought you out
of the land of Egypt so that you would not be their slaves, and I broke the bars
of your yoke and made you walk erect. |
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Penalties of Disobedience |
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| Leviticus 26:14 |
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'But if you do not obey Me and do not carry
out all these commandments, |
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| Leviticus 26:15 |
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if, instead, you reject My statutes, and if
your soul abhors My ordinances so as not to carry out all My commandments, and
so break My covenant, |
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| Leviticus 26:16 |
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I, in turn, will do this to you: I will appoint
over you a sudden terror, consumption and fever that will waste away the eyes
and cause the soul to pine away; also, you will sow your seed uselessly, for your
enemies will eat it up. |
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| Leviticus 26:17 |
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I will set My face against you so that you
will be struck down before your enemies; and those who hate you will rule over
you, and you will flee when no one is pursuing you. |
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| Leviticus 26:18 |
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If also after these things you do not obey
Me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins. |
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| Leviticus 26:19 |
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I will also break down your pride of power;
I will also make your sky like iron and your earth like bronze. |
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| Leviticus 26:20 |
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Your strength will be spent uselessly, for your
land will not yield its produce and the trees of the land will not yield their
fruit. |
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| Leviticus 26:21 |
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'If then, you act with hostility against Me
and are unwilling to obey Me, I will increase the plague on you seven times according
to your sins. |
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| Leviticus 26:22 |
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I will let loose among you the beasts of the
field, which will bereave you of your children and destroy your cattle and reduce
your number so that your roads lie deserted. |
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| Leviticus 26:23 |
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'And if by these things you are not turned to
Me, but act with hostility against Me, |
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| Leviticus 26:24 |
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then I will act with hostility against you;
and I, even I, will strike you seven times for your sins. |
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| Leviticus 26:25 |
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I will also bring upon you a sword which will
execute vengeance for the covenant; and when you gather together into your cities,
I will send pestilence among you, so that you shall be delivered into enemy hands. |
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| Leviticus 26:26 |
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When I break your staff of bread, ten women
will bake your bread in one oven, and they will bring back your bread in rationed
amounts, so that you will eat and not be satisfied. |
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| Leviticus 26:27 |
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'Yet if in spite of this you do not obey Me,
but act with hostility against Me, |
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| Leviticus 26:28 |
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then I will act with wrathful hostility against
you, and I, even I, will punish you seven times for your sins. |
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| Leviticus 26:29 |
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Further, you will eat the flesh of your sons
and the flesh of your daughters you will eat. |
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| Leviticus 26:30 |
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I then will destroy your high places, and cut
down your incense altars, and heap your remains on the remains of your idols,
for My soul shall abhor you. |
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| Leviticus 26:31 |
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I will lay waste your cities as well and will
make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your soothing aromas. |
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| Leviticus 26:32 |
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I will make the land desolate so that your
enemies who settle in it will be appalled over it. |
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| Leviticus 26:33 |
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You, however, I will scatter among the nations
and will draw out a sword after you, as your land becomes desolate and your cities
become waste. |
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| Leviticus 26:34 |
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'Then the land will enjoy its sabbaths all
the days of the desolation, while you are in your enemies' land; then the land
will rest and enjoy its sabbaths. |
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| Leviticus 26:35 |
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All the days of its desolation it will observe
the rest which it did not observe on your sabbaths, while you were living on it. |
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| Leviticus 26:36 |
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As for those of you who may be left, I will
also bring weakness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. And the sound
of a driven leaf will chase them, and even when no one is pursuing they will flee
as though from the sword, and they will fall. |
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| Leviticus 26:37 |
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They will therefore stumble over each other
as if running from the sword, although no one is pursuing; and you will have no
strength to stand up before your enemies. |
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| Leviticus 26:38 |
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But you will perish among the nations, and your
enemies' land will consume you. |
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| Leviticus 26:39 |
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So those of you who may be left will rot away
because of their iniquity in the lands of your enemies; and also because of the
iniquities of their forefathers they will rot away with them. |
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| Leviticus 26:40 |
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'If they confess their iniquity and the iniquity
of their forefathers, in their unfaithfulness which they committed against Me,
and also in their acting with hostility against Me-- |
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| Leviticus 26:41 |
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I also was acting with hostility against them,
to bring them into the land of their enemies-or if their uncircumcised heart becomes
humbled so that they then make amends for their iniquity, |
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| Leviticus 26:42 |
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then I will remember My covenant with Jacob,
and I will remember also My covenant with Isaac, and My covenant with Abraham
as well, and I will remember the land. |
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| Leviticus 26:43 |
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For the land will be abandoned by them, and
will make up for its sabbaths while it is made desolate without them. They, meanwhile,
will be making amends for their iniquity, because they rejected My ordinances
and their soul abhorred My statutes. |
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| Leviticus 26:44 |
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Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land
of their enemies, I will not reject them, nor will I so abhor them as to destroy
them, breaking My covenant with them; for I am the LORD their God. |
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| Leviticus 26:45 |
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But I will remember for them the covenant with
their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations,
that I might be their God. I am the LORD.'" |
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| Leviticus 26:46 |
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These are the statutes and ordinances and laws
which the LORD established between Himself and the sons of Israel through Moses
at Mount Sinai. |
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