LEVITICUS 26
1: You shall make for yourselves no idols and erect no carved images
or pillars, and you shall not place figured stones in your land, to worship at
them; for I am the Lord your God.
2: You shall keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the
Lord.
3: If you follow my statutes and keep my commandments and observe
them faithfully,
4: I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall
yield its produce, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
5: Your threshing shall overtake the vintage, and the vintage shall
overtake the sowing; you shall eat your bread to the full, and live securely in
your land.
6: And I will grant peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and no
one shall make you afraid; I will remove dangerous animals from the land, and
no sword shall go through your land.
7: You shall give chase to your enemies, and they shall fall before
you by the sword.
8: Five of you shall give chase to a hundred, and a hundred of you shall
give chase to ten thousand; your enemies shall fall before you by the
sword.
9: I will look with favour upon you and make you fruitful and
multiply you; and I will maintain my covenant with you.
10: You shall eat old grain long stored, and you shall have to clear
out the old to make way for the new.
11: I will place my dwelling in your midst, and I shall not abhor you.
12: And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you shall be my
people.
13: I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be
their slaves no more; I have broken the bars of your yoke and made you walk
erect.
14: But if you will not obey me, and do not observe all these
commandments,
15: if you spurn my statutes, and abhor my ordinances, so that you will
not observe all my commandments, and you break my covenant,
16: I in turn will do this to you: I will bring terror on you;
consumption and fever that waste the eyes and cause life to pine away. You
shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
17: I will set my face against you, and you shall be struck down by
your enemies; your foes shall rule over you, and you shall flee though no one
pursues you.
18: And if in spite of this you will not obey me, I will continue to
punish you sevenfold for your sins.
19: I will break your proud glory, and I will make your sky like iron
and your earth like copper.
20: Your strength shall be spent to no purpose: your land shall not yield
its produce, and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.
21: If you continue hostile to me, and will not obey me, I will
continue to plague you seven-fold for your sins.
22: I will let loose wild animals against you, and they shall bereave
you of your children and destroy your livestock; they shall make you few in
number, and your roads shall be deserted.
23: If in spite of these punishments you have not turned back to me,
but continue hostile to me,
24: then I too will continue hostile to you: I myself will strike you
sevenfold for your sins.
25: I will bring the sword against you, executing vengeance for the
covenant; and if you withdraw within your cities, I will send pestilence among
you, and you shall be delivered into enemy hands.
26: When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread
in a single oven, and they shall dole out your bread by weight; and though you
eat, you shall not be satisfied.
27: But if, despite this, you disobey me, and continue hostile to
me,
28: I will continue hostile to you in fury; I in turn will punish you
myself sevenfold for your sins.
29: You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh
of your daughters.
30: I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars;
I will heap your carcasses on the carcasses of your idols. I will abhor
you.
31: I will lay your cities waste, will make your sanctuaries desolate,
and I will not smell your pleasing odours.
32: I will devastate the land, so that your enemies who come to settle
in it shall be appalled at it.
33: And you I will scatter among the nations, and I will unsheathe the
sword against you; your land shall be a desolation, and your cities a waste.
34: Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbath years as long as it lies
desolate, while you are in the land of your enemies; then the land shall rest,
and enjoy its Sabbath years.
35: As long as it lies desolate, it shall have the rest it did not
have on your Sabbaths when you were living on it.
36: And as for those of you who survive, I will send faintness into
their hearts in the lands of their enemies; the sound of a driven leaf shall
put them to flight, and they shall flee as one flees from the sword, and they
shall fall though no one pursues.
37: They shall stumble over one another, as if to escape a sword,
though no one pursues; and you shall have no power to stand against your
enemies.
38: You shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies
shall devour you.
39: And those of you who survive shall languish in the land of your
enemies because of their iniquities; also they shall languish because of the
iniquities of their ancestors.
40: But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their
ancestors, in that they committed treachery against me and, moreover, that they
continued hostile to me—
41: so that I, in turn, continued hostile to them and brought them
into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled
and they make amends for their iniquity,
42: then will I remember my covenant with Jacob; I will remember also
my covenant with Isaac and also my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember
the land.
43: For the land shall be deserted by them, and enjoy its Sabbath years by
lying desolate without them, while they shall make amends for their iniquity,
because they dared to spurn my ordinances, and they abhorred my statutes.
44: Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I
will not spurn them, or abhor them so as to destroy them utterly and break my
covenant with them; for I am the Lord their God;
45: but I will remember in their favor the covenant with their
ancestors whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations,
to be their God: I am the Lord.
46: These are the statutes and ordinances and laws that the Lord
established between himself and the people of Israel on Mount Sinai through
Moses.
LEVITICUS 27
1: The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2: Speak to the people of Israel and say to them: When a person makes
an explicit vow to the Lord concerning the equivalent for a human being,
3: the equivalent for a male shall be: from twenty to sixty years of
age the equivalent shall be fifty shekels of silver by the sanctuary
shekel.
4: If the person is a female, the equivalent is thirty shekels.
5: If the age is from five to twenty years of age, the equivalent is
twenty shekels for a male and ten shekels for a female.
6: If the age is from one month to five years, the equivalent for a
male is five shekels of silver, and for a female the equivalent is three
shekels of silver.
7: And if the person is sixty years old or over, then the equivalent
for a male is fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels.
8: If any cannot afford the equivalent, they shall be brought before
the priest and the priest shall assess them; the priest shall assess them according
to what each one making a vow can afford.
9: If it concerns an animal that may be brought as an offering to the
Lord, any such that may be given to the Lord shall be holy.
10: Another shall not be exchanged or substituted for it, either good
for bad or bad for good; and if one animal is substituted for another, both
that one and its substitute shall be holy.
11: If it concerns any unclean animal that may not be brought as an offering
to the Lord, the animal shall be presented before the priest.
12: The priest shall assess it: whether good or bad, according to the
assessment of the priest, so it shall be.
13: But if it is to be redeemed, one-fifth must be added to the
assessment.
14: If a person consecrates a house to the Lord, the priest shall assess it:
whether good or bad, as the priest assesses it, so it shall stand.
15: And if the one who consecrates the house wishes to redeem it, one-fifth
shall be added to its assessed value, and it shall revert to the original
owner.
16: If a person consecrates to the Lord any inherited landholding, its
assessment shall be in accordance with its seed requirements: fifty shekels of
silver to a homer of barley seed.
17: If the person consecrates the field as of the year of jubilee,
that assessment shall stand;
18: but if the field is consecrated after the jubilee, the priest
shall compute the price for it according to the years that remain until the
year of jubilee, and the assessment shall be reduced.
19: And if the one who consecrates the field wishes to redeem it, then
one-fifth shall be added to its assessed value, and it shall revert to the
original owner;
20: but if the field is not redeemed, or if it has been sold to
someone else, it shall no longer be redeemable.
21: But when the field is released in the jubilee, it shall be holy to
the Lord as a devoted field; it becomes the priest's holding.
22: If someone consecrates to the Lord a field that has been
purchased, which is not a part of the inherited landholding,
23: the priest shall compute for it the proportionate assessment up to
the year of jubilee, and the assessment shall be paid as of that day, a sacred
donation to the Lord.
24: In the year of jubilee the field shall return to the one from whom
it was bought, whose holding the land is.
25: All assessments shall be by the sanctuary shekel: twenty gerahs
shall make a shekel.
26: A firstling of animals, however, which as a firstling belongs to
the Lord, cannot be consecrated by anyone; whether ox or sheep, it is the
Lord's.
27: If it is an unclean animal, it shall be ransomed at its
assessment, with one-fifth added; if it is not redeemed, it shall be sold at
its assessment.
28: Nothing that a person owns that has been devoted to destruction
for the Lord, be it human or animal, or inherited landholding, may be sold or
redeemed; every devoted thing is most holy to the Lord.
29: No human beings who have been devoted to destruction can be
ransomed; they shall be put to death.
30: All tithes from the land, whether the seed from the ground or the
fruit from the tree, are the Lord's; they are holy to the Lord.
31: If persons wish to redeem any of their tithes, they must add
one-fifth to them.
32: All tithes of herd and flock, every tenth one that passes under
the shepherd's staff, shall be holy to the Lord.
33: Let no one inquire whether it is good or bad, or make substitution
for it; if one makes substitution for it, then both it and the substitute shall
be holy and cannot be redeemed.
34: These are the commandments that the Lord gave to Moses for the
people of Israel on Mount Sinai.
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