001 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 unto it: for I am the LORD your God.
002 Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.
003 If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;
004 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.
005 And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.
006 And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.
007 And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.
008 And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
009 For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.
010 And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new.
011 And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you.
012 And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people.
013 I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright.
014 But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments;
015 And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:
016 I also will do this unto 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.
017 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.
018 And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.
019 And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:
020 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.
021 And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.
022 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.
023 And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me;
024 Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.
025 And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
026 And when I have broken 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.
027 And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me;
028 Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.
029 And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.
030 And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.
031 And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.
032 And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.
033 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.
034 Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.
035 As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.
036 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.
037 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.
038 And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.
039 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.
040 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 unto me;
041 And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:
042 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.
043 The land also shall be left of 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.
044 And yet for all that, when they 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.
045 But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I am the LORD.
046 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.
Copyright © 1994 - 2024 GhanaWeb. All rights reserved.
