Leviticus Chapter 26

Idolatry

26:1 Yall 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 for 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 Elohei 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
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26:2 Y’all shall keep My sabbaths, and reverence My sanctuary 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
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Keeping the commandments


26:3 If y’all walk in My statutes, and keep My commandments, 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 evil 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 an hundred, and an 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 tabernacleמִשְׁכָּן
Transliteration: miškān dwelling place, tent, tabernacle For more info click here
among you and my soul shall not loathe you.

26:12 And I will walk among you, and will be your Elohei 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
, 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 Elohei 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
, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, 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 will not listen to Me, and will not do all these commandments ;

26:15 And if y’all shall despise My statutes, or if your soul loathe My judgments, so that y’all will not do all My commandments, [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 sins.
26:19 And I will break the pride of your power ; and I will make your heaven like iron, and your earth like brass
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 will not listen to me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.
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 sins.
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 will not 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 sins.
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 soul 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 nations, 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 sabbaths, as long as it lies desolate, and y’all [be] in your enemies’ land ; [even] then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.
26:35 As long as it lies desolate it shall rest ; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when y’all dwelt 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 heathen, 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 fathers, 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 sabbaths, while she lies desolate without them and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul loathed my statutes.
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 for 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 Elohei אֱלֹהֵיהֶם
Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word is Elohim for more info on the word click here
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26:45 But I will for their sake remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their Elohei אֱלֹהֵיהֶם
Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word is Elohim for more info on the word 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
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26:46 These [are] the statutes and judgments and teachings, which 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 Israel 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
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