Leviticus Chapter 26

Idolatry

26:1 Y‘all shall make you no idols nor carved image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall y’all set up [any] image of stone in your land, to bow down to it because I [am] YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here your Elohim אֱלֹהֵיכֶם
is a genre of Piyyut…. This name of this genre, meaning “your Elohim”, comes from the closing word of Numbers 15:41: “…to be your God; I am Yahweh your God.” for more info click here Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word Elohim for more info on the word click here.
26:2 Y’all shall keep My Sabbathsשַׁבְּתֹתַי‎
Transliteration: šabṯōṯay, lit. ’rest’ or ‘cessation’) is Judaism’s day of rest on the seventh day of the week—i.e., Saturday. On this day, religious Jews remember the biblical stories describing the creation of the heavens and earth in six days and the redemption from slavery and the Exodus from Egypt, and look forward to a future Messianic Age. Since the Jewish religious calendar counts days from sunset to sunset, Shabbat begins in the evening of what on the civil calendar is Friday For more info click here, and revere My sanctuaryוּמִקְדָּשִׁי
Transliteration: ûmiqdāšî – and | my sanctuary – a consecrated thing or place, especially, a palace, sanctuary (whether of Jehovah or of idols) or asylum:—chapel, hallowed part, holy place, sanctuary. – For more info click here I [am] YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here.

Keeping the commandments

26:3 If y’all walk in My statutesבְּחֻקֹּתַי‎
Transliteration: bᵊḥuqqōṯay – statutes, ordinances, limits, enactments, something prescribed For more info click here, and keep My commandmentsמִצְוֺתַי
Transliteration: miṣôṯay Hebrew Noun: Common Feminine Plural Construct – Meaning: a command, whether human or divine (collectively, the Law):—(which was) commanded(-ment), law, ordinance, precept. For more info click here, and do them;
26:4 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.
26:5 And your threshing shall reach to the vintage, and the vintage shall reach to the sowing time and y’all shall eat your bread to the full, and live in your land safely.
26:6 And I will give peaceשָׁלוֹם‎
Transliteration šālôm Pronunciation shaw-lome’ shalom – completeness, soundness, welfare, peace, be well, prosperity For more info click here in the land, and y’all shall lie down, and none shall make [you] afraid and I will rid evilרָעָה‎
Transliteration: rāʿâ -Hebrew Noun: Common Feminine Singular Absolute – In the KJV is translated in the following manner: evil (442x), wickedness (59x), wicked (25x), mischief (21x), hurt (20x), bad (13x), trouble (10x), sore (9x), affliction (6x), ill (5x), adversity (4x), ill favored (3x), harm (3x), naught (3x), noisome (2x), grievous (2x), sad (2x), miscellaneous (34x) For more info click here animals out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.
26:7 And y’all shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.
26:8 And five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
26:9 Because I will have respect to you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.
26:10 And y’all shall eat old store, and bring out the old because of the new.
26:11 And I will place My tabernacleמִשְׁכָּנִי
Transliteration: miškānî – dwelling place, tent, shelter, tabernacle, booth – For more info click here among you and My soulנַפְשִׁי
Transliteration: nap̄šî Hebrew Noun: Common Both Singular Construct – Meaning: my soul, myself, my life, my creature, my person, my appetite, my mind, my living being, my desire, my emotion, my passion For more info click here shall not loathe you.
26:12 And I will walk among you, and will be your Elohimלֵאלֹהִים
Transliteration: lē’lōhîm, the plural of אֱלוֹהַּ‎ (ʾĔlōah), is a Hebrew word meaning “gods”. Although the word is plural, in the Hebrew Bible it most often takes singular verbal or pronominal agreement and refers to a single deity particularly the God of Israel In other verses it refers to the singular gods of other nations or to deities in the plural A name for GOD — God The Creator. For more info click here, and y’all shall be my people.
26:13 I [am] YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here your Elohim אֱלֹהֵיכֶם
is a genre of Piyyut…. This name of this genre, meaning “your Elohim”, comes from the closing word of Numbers 15:41: “…to be your God; I am Yahweh your God.” for more info click here Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word Elohim for more info on the word click here, that brought you out of the land of Egyptמִצְרַיִם‎
Transliteration: miṣrayim – Pronunciation: mits-rah’-yim adjective, proper locative noun – Egypt = “land of the Copts (a member of a people descended from the ancient Egyptians)” . For more info click here, that y’all should not be their bondmen ; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright.

Penalties for disobedience

26:14 But if y’all won’t listen to Me, and won’t do all these commandmentsהַמִּצְוָה
Transliteration: miṣvâ Pronunciation:mits-vaw’ feminine noun Meaning: a command, whether human or divine (collectively, the Law):—(which was) commanded(-ment), law, ordinance, precept. For more info click here ;
26:15 And if y’all shall despise My statutesבְּחֻקֹּתַי‎
Transliteration: bᵊḥuqqōṯay – statutes, ordinances, limits, enactments, something prescribed For more info click here, or if your soulנַפְשְׁכֶם
Transliteration: nap̄šᵊḵem – Hebrew Noun: Common Both Singular Construct – Meaning: your soul, yourselve, your life, your creature, your person, your appetite, your mind, your living being, your desire, your emotion, your passion For more info click here loathes My judgmentsמִשְׁפָּטַי‎
Transliteration: mišpāṭay – properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant’s) divine law, individual or collective), including the act, the place, the suit, the crime, and the penalty; abstractly, justice, including a participant’s right or privilege (statutory or customary), or even a style:— adversary, ceremony, charge custom, desert, determination, discretion, disposing, due, fashion, form, to be judged, judgment, just(-ice, -ly), (manner of) law(-ful), manner, measure, (due) order, ordinance, right, sentence. For more info click here, so that y’all won’t do all My commandmentsמִצְוֺתַי
Transliteration: miṣôṯay Hebrew Noun: Common Feminine Plural Construct – Meaning: a command, whether human or divine (collectively, the Law):—(which was) commanded(-ment), law, ordinance, precept. For more info click here, [but] that y’all break my covenant
26:16 I also will do this to you; I will even appoint over you terror, wasting disease, and the fever, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart and y’all shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
26:17 And I will set my face against you, and y’all shall be killed before your enemies they that hate you shall reign over you; and y’all shall escape when no one pursues you.
26:18 And if y’all will not yet for all this listen to me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sinsחַטֹּאותֵיכֶם
Transliteration: ḥaṭṭō’vṯêḵem – Hebrew Noun: Common Feminine Plural Construct – a primitive root an offense (sometimes habitual sinfulness), and its penalty, occasion, sacrifice, or expiation; also (concretely) an offender:—punishment (of sin), purifying(-fication for sin), sin(-ner, offering From an archery term meaning to miss the mark For more info click here.
26:19 And I will break the pride of your power ; and I will make your heavensשְׁמֵיכֶם‎
Transliteration: šᵊmêḵem – Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct dual of an unused singular שָׁמֶה shâmeh; from an unused root meaning to be lofty; the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve):—air, × astrologer, heaven(-s) – For more info click here like iron, and your earth like bronze
26:20 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.
26:21 And if y’all walk contrary to me, and won’t listen to me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sinsכְּחַטֹּאתֵיכֶם
Transliteration: kᵊḥaṭṭō’ṯêḵem – Hebrew Noun: Common Feminine Plural Construct – from a primitive root an offense (sometimes habitual sinfulness), and its penalty, occasion, sacrifice, or expiation; also (concretely) an offender:—punishment (of sin), purifying(-fication for sin), sin(-ner, offering From an archery term meaning to miss the mark For more info click here.
26:22 I will also send wild animals 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.
26:23 And if y’all will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary to me;
26:24 Then will I also walk contrary to you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sinsחַטֹּאותֵיכֶם
Transliteration: ḥaṭṭō’vṯêḵem – Hebrew Noun: Common Feminine Plural Construct – from a primitive root an offense (sometimes habitual sinfulness), and its penalty, occasion, sacrifice, or expiation; also (concretely) an offender:—punishment (of sin), purifying(-fication for sin), sin(-ner, offering From an archery term meaning to miss the mark For more info click here.
26:25 And I will bring a sword on you, that shall avenge the quarrel of [my] covenant and when y’all are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and y’all shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
26:26 [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 y’all shall eat, and not be satisfied.
26:27 And if y’all won’t for all this listen to me, but walk contrary to me;
26:28 Then I will walk contrary to you too in anger ; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sinsחַטֹּאותֵיכֶם
Transliteration: ḥaṭṭō’vṯêḵem – Hebrew Noun: Common Feminine Plural Construct – from a primitive root an offense (sometimes habitual sinfulness), and its penalty, occasion, sacrifice, or expiation; also (concretely) an offender:—punishment (of sin), purifying(-fication for sin), sin(-ner, offering From an archery term meaning to miss the mark For more info click here.
26:29 And y’all shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall y’all eat.
26:30 And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and throw your carcasses on the carcasses of your idols, and My soulנַפְשִׁי
Transliteration: nap̄šî Hebrew Noun: Common Both Singular Construct – Meaning: my soul, myself, my life, my creature, my person, my appetite, my mind, my living being, my desire, my emotion, my passion For more info click here shall loathe you.
26:31 And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not smell the savor of your sweet odors.
26:32 And I will bring the land into desolation and your enemies which stay in it shall be astonished at it.
26:33 And I will scatter you among the nationsבַּגּוֹיִם‎
Transliteration: bagôyim – Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Absolute (in the sense of massing); a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts: — in/among the Gentiles, in/among the heathen, in/among the nations, in/among the people. For more info click here, and will draw out a sword after you and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.
26:34 Then shall the land enjoy her Sabbathsשַׁבְּתֹתֶיהָ‎
Transliteration: ššabṯōṯêhā, lit. ’rest’ or ‘cessation’) is Judaism’s day of rest on the seventh day of the week—i.e., Saturday. On this day, religious Jews remember the biblical stories describing the creation of the heavens and earth in six days and the redemption from slavery and the Exodus from Egypt, and look forward to a future Messianic Age. Since the Jewish religious calendar counts days from sunset to sunset, Shabbat begins in the evening of what on the civil calendar is Friday For more info click here, as long as it lies desolate, and y’all [be] in your enemies’ land ; [even] then shall the land rest, and enjoy her Sabbathsשַׁבְּתֹתֶיהָ‎
Transliteration: ššabṯōṯêhā, lit. ’rest’ or ‘cessation’) is Judaism’s day of rest on the seventh day of the week—i.e., Saturday. On this day, religious Jews remember the biblical stories describing the creation of the heavens and earth in six days and the redemption from slavery and the Exodus from Egypt, and look forward to a future Messianic Age. Since the Jewish religious calendar counts days from sunset to sunset, Shabbat begins in the evening of what on the civil calendar is Friday For more info click here.
26:35 As long as it lies desolate it shall rest ; because it didn’t rest in your Sabbathsבְּשַׁבְּתֹתֵיכֶם‎
Transliteration: bᵊšabṯōṯêḵem, lit. ’rest’ or ‘cessation’) is Judaism’s day of rest on the seventh day of the week—i.e., Saturday. On this day, religious Jews remember the biblical stories describing the creation of the heavens and earth in six days and the redemption from slavery and the Exodus from Egypt, and look forward to a future Messianic Age. Since the Jewish religious calendar counts days from sunset to sunset, Shabbat begins in the evening of what on the civil calendar is Friday For more info click here, when y’all lived on it.
26:36 And on 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 driven leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, like escaping from a sword ; and they shall fall when none pursues.
26:37 And they shall fall one on another, as it were before a sword, when none pursues and y’all shall have no power to stand before your enemies.
26:38 And y’all shall perish among the nationsבַּגּוֹיִם‎
Transliteration: bagôyim – Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Absolute (in the sense of massing); a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts: — in/among the Gentiles, in/among the heathen, in/among the nations, in/among the people. For more info click here, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.
26:39 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.
26:40 If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their forefathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary to me;
26:41 And [that] I also have walked contrary to them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies ; if then their uncircumcised hearts is humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity
26:42 Then will I remember my covenant with Jacobיַעֲקֹב
(/ˈdʒeɪkəb/; Modern: Yaʿaqōv (help·info), Tiberian: Yaʿăqōḇ; Arabic: يَعْقُوب, romanized: Yaʿqūb; Greek: Ἰακώβ, romanized: Iakṓb) the name Yaʿaqōv יעקב is derived from ʿaqev עָקֵב “heel”, as Jacob was born grasping the heel of his twin brother Esau. (later called Israel) for more info click here, and also my covenant with Isaacיִצְחָק
(Yīṣḥāq) meaning “he will laugh”, reflecting the laughter, in disbelief, of Abraham and Sarah, when told by God that they would have a child., and also my covenant with Abrahamאַבְרָהָם
/ˈeɪbrəhæm, -həm/; ‎‎, Modern: ʾAvraham, As recounted in the Torah, his name was originally Avram which means “High Father” – “av” (אב) “father”, “ram” (רם) “high” – with the “ha” (ה) added in mark of his covenant with God. For more info click here will I remember ; and I will remember the land.
26:43 The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her Sabbathsשַׁבְּתֹתֶיהָ‎
Transliteration: ššabṯōṯêhā, lit. ’rest’ or ‘cessation’) is Judaism’s day of rest on the seventh day of the week—i.e., Saturday. On this day, religious Jews remember the biblical stories describing the creation of the heavens and earth in six days and the redemption from slavery and the Exodus from Egypt, and look forward to a future Messianic Age. Since the Jewish religious calendar counts days from sunset to sunset, Shabbat begins in the evening of what on the civil calendar is Friday For more info click here, while she lies desolate without them and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity because, even because they despised My judgmentsבְּמִשְׁפָּטַי‎
Transliteration: bᵊmišpāṭay – properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant’s) divine law, individual or collective), including the act, the place, the suit, the crime, and the penalty; abstractly, justice, including a participant’s right or privilege (statutory or customary), or even a style:— adversary, ceremony, charge custom, desert, determination, discretion, disposing, due, fashion, form, to be judged, judgment, just(-ice, -ly), (manner of) law(-ful), manner, measure, (due) order, ordinance, right, sentence. For more info click here, and because their soulנַפְשָׁם
Transliteration: nap̄šām Hebrew Noun: Common Both Singular Construct Meaning: their soul, theirself, their life, their creature, their person, their appetite, their mind, their living being, their desire, their emotion, their passion For more info click here loathed My statutesחֻקֹּתַי‎
Transliteration: ḥuqqâ – statutes, ordinances, limits, enactments, something prescribed For more info click here.
26:44 And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not throw them away, neither will I loathe them, to destroy them completely, and to break my covenant with them because I [am] YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here their Elohim אֱלֹהֵיהֶם
Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word is Elohim for more info on the word click here.
26:45 But I will for their sake remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egyptמִצְרַיִם‎
Transliteration: miṣrayim – Pronunciation: mits-rah’-yim adjective, proper locative noun – Egypt = “land of the Copts (a member of a people descended from the ancient Egyptians)” . For more info click here in the sight of the nationsהַגּוֹיִם‎
Transliteration: hagôyim – Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Absolute (in the sense of massing); a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts:—the Gentiles, the heathen, the nations, the people. For more info click here, that I might be their Elohimלֵאלֹהִים
Transliteration: lē’lōhîm, the plural of אֱלוֹהַּ‎ (ʾĔlōah), is a Hebrew word meaning “gods”. Although the word is plural, in the Hebrew Bible it most often takes singular verbal or pronominal agreement and refers to a single deity particularly the God of Israel In other verses it refers to the singular gods of other nations or to deities in the plural A name for GOD — God The Creator. For more info click here I [am] YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here.
26:46 These [are] the statutesהַחֻקִּים‎
Transliteration: haḥuqqîm – statutes, ordinances, limits, enactments, something prescribed For more info click here and judgmentsוְהַמִּשְׁפָּטִים‎
Transliteration: vᵊhammišpāṭîm – properlies, a verdicts (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant’s) divine laws, individual or collective), including the acts, the place, the suit, the crime, and the penalty; abstractly, justice, including a participant’s rights or privileges (statutory or customary), or even styles:— adversaries, ceremonies, charge customs, deserts, determinations, discretion,s disposings, dues, fashion, form, to be judged, judgment, just(-ice, -ly), (manner of) law(-ful), manner, measures, (due) orders, ordinances, rights, sentences. For more info click here and teachingsוְהַתּוֹרֹת‎
Transliteration: vᵊhatôrōṯ; law, teaching, direction, instruction – The first five books of the Bible or also called “the books of Moses” comes from an archery term meaning to shoot., that YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here made between him and the children of Israelיִשְׂרָאֵל
Transliteration: yiśrā’ēl The name Israel (Septuagint Ancient Greek: Ἰσραήλ, Israēl, “El (God) persists/rules” or “God prevails”) refers to the patriarch Jacob who, according to the Hebrew Bible, was given the name after he successfully wrestled with the Angel of the Lord. The earliest known archaeological artifact to mention the word Israel as a collective is the Merneptah Stele of ancient Egypt (dated to the late-13th century BCE) for more info click here in mount Sinai by the hand of Mosesמשה
Meaning of the name: Linguist Abraham Yahuda, based on the spelling given in the Tanakh, argues that it combines “water” or “seed” and “pond, expanse of water,” thus yielding the sense of “child of the Nile” For more info click here.