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¹“You must not make idols for yourselves or set up a carved image or sacred pillar; you must not place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down to it. For I am the Lord your God.[ † ]Exodus 20:4-5Deuteronomy 4:15-18Deuteronomy 5:8

²You must keep My Sabbaths and have reverence for My sanctuary. I am the Lord.[ † ]Leviticus 19:30

³If you follow My statutes and carefully keep My commandments,[ † ]Deuteronomy 28:1-14 ⁴I will give you rains in their season, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.[ † ]Isaiah 30:23Psalms 67:6 ⁵Your threshing will continue until the grape harvest, and the grape harvest will continue until sowing time; you will have your fill of food to eat and will dwell securely in your land.[ † ]Deuteronomy 11:15Joel 2:19-26Amos 9:13Leviticus 25:18-19Ezekiel 34:25

⁶And I will give peace to the land, and you will lie down with nothing to fear. I will rid the land of dangerous animals, and no sword will pass through your land.[ † ]Isaiah 45:7Job 11:19Psalms 4:8Zephaniah 3:132 Kings 17:25Hosea 2:18Ezekiel 14:17 ⁷You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall by the sword before you. ⁸Five of you will pursue a hundred, and a hundred of you will pursue ten thousand, and your enemies will fall by the sword before you.[ † ]Deuteronomy 32:30Judges 7:7-12

⁹I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will establish My covenant with you.[ † ]Exodus 2:252 Kings 13:23Genesis 17:6-7Psalms 107:38Genesis 17:1-7 ¹⁰You will still be eating the old supply of grain when you need to clear it out to make room for the new.[ † ]Leviticus 25:22

¹¹And I will make My dwelling place among you, and My soul will not despise you.[ † ]Exodus 25:8Exodus 29:45-46Joshua 22:19Psalms 76:2Ezekiel 37:26Revelation 21:3 ¹²I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be My people.[ † ]Deuteronomy 23:142 Corinthians 6:16 ¹³I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so that you would no longer be slaves to the Egyptians. I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to walk in uprightness.[ † ]Genesis 27:40

¹⁴If, however, you fail to obey Me and to carry out all these commandments, ¹⁵and if you reject My statutes, despise My ordinances, and neglect to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant, ¹⁶then this is what I will do to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting disease, and fever that will destroy your sight and drain your life. You will sow your seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.[ † ]Deuteronomy 28:221 Samuel 2:33Ezekiel 24:23Ezekiel 33:10Judges 6:3-6Job 31:8Micah 6:15 ¹⁷And I will set My face against you, so that you will be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when no one pursues you.[ † ]Psalms 34:16Deuteronomy 28:251 Samuel 4:101 Samuel 31:1Psalms 106:41Proverbs 28:1

¹⁸And if after all this you will not obey Me, I will proceed to punish you sevenfold for your sins.[ † ]1 Samuel 2:5 ¹⁹I will break down your stubborn pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze,[ † ]Isaiah 25:11Deuteronomy 28:23 ²⁰and your strength will be spent in vain. For your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit.[ † ]Psalms 127:1Isaiah 17:10-11Isaiah 49:4Jeremiah 12:13Genesis 4:12Deuteronomy 11:17

²¹If you walk in hostility toward Me and refuse to obey Me, I will multiply your plagues seven times, according to your sins. ²²I will send wild animals against you to rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and reduce your numbers, until your roads lie desolate.[ † ]Deuteronomy 32:24Ezekiel 14:21Judges 5:62 Chronicles 15:5Zechariah 7:14

²³And if in spite of these things you do not accept My discipline, but continue to walk in hostility toward Me,[ † ]Jeremiah 2:30Amos 4:6-12 ²⁴then I will act with hostility toward you, and I will strike you sevenfold for your sins.[ † ]Leviticus 26:28-41Psalms 18:26 ²⁵And I will bring a sword against you to execute the vengeance of the covenant. Though you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague among you, and you will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.[ † ]Ezekiel 5:17Numbers 16:49Deuteronomy 28:212 Samuel 24:15 ²⁶When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.[ † ]Psalms 105:16Isaiah 3:1Ezekiel 4:16-17Ezekiel 5:16Micah 6:14Haggai 1:6

²⁷But if in spite of all this you do not obey Me, but continue to walk in hostility toward Me, ²⁸then I will walk in fury against you, and I, even I, will punish you sevenfold for your sins. ²⁹You will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters.[ † ]Deuteronomy 28:532 Kings 6:28-29 ³⁰I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your lifeless bodies on the lifeless remains of your idols; and My soul will despise you.[ † ]1 Kings 13:22 Chronicles 34:3Isaiah 27:9Ezekiel 6:3-6, 13

³¹I will reduce your cities to rubble and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will refuse to smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices.[ † ]2 Kings 25:4-102 Chronicles 36:19Psalms 74:7Isaiah 1:11-15 ³²And I will lay waste the land, so that your enemies who dwell in it will be appalled.[ † ]Jeremiah 9:11Jeremiah 18:16 ³³But I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you as your land becomes desolate and your cities are laid waste.[ † ]Deuteronomy 4:27Psalms 44:11Ezekiel 12:15Ezekiel 20:23Ezekiel 22:15Zechariah 7:14

³⁴Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths all the days it lies desolate, while you are in the land of your enemies. At that time the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.[ † ]Leviticus 26:432 Chronicles 36:21 ³⁵As long as it lies desolate, the land will have the rest it did not receive during the Sabbaths when you lived in it.[ † ]Leviticus 25:2

³⁶As for those of you who survive, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, so that even the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to flight. And they will flee as one flees the sword, and fall when no one pursues them.[ † ]Isaiah 30:17Lamentations 1:3-6Lamentations 4:19Ezekiel 21:7-12, 15 ³⁷They will stumble over one another as before the sword, though no one is behind them. So you will not be able to stand against your enemies.[ † ]Judges 7:221 Samuel 14:15-16Isaiah 10:4Joshua 7:12-13Judges 2:14

³⁸You will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will consume you.[ † ]Deuteronomy 4:26 ³⁹Those of you who survive in the lands of your enemies will waste away in their iniquity and will decay in the sins of their fathers.[ † ]Deuteronomy 28:65Ezekiel 4:17Ezekiel 33:10Zechariah 10:9Exodus 34:7

⁴⁰But if they will confess their iniquity and that of their fathers in the unfaithfulness that they practiced against Me, by which they have also walked in hostility toward Me—[ † ]Numbers 5:71 Kings 8:33-34Nehemiah 9:2Luke 15:181 John 1:9 ⁴¹and I acted with hostility toward them and brought them into the land of their enemies—and if their uncircumcised hearts will be humbled and they will make amends for their iniquity,[ † ]Acts 7:51Romans 2:292 Chronicles 12:6-7, 121 Peter 5:5-6Psalms 39:9Psalms 51:3-4Daniel 9:7 ⁴²then I will remember My covenant with Jacob and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.[ † ]Exodus 2:24Exodus 6:5Psalms 106:45Ezekiel 16:60Psalms 136:23

⁴³For the land will be abandoned by them, and it will enjoy its Sabbaths by lying desolate without them. And they will pay the penalty for their iniquity, because they rejected My ordinances and abhorred My statutes.[ † ]Leviticus 26:34-35Leviticus 26:15

⁴⁴Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject or despise them so as to destroy them and break My covenant with them; for I am the Lord their God.[ † ]Deuteronomy 4:312 Kings 13:23Jeremiah 30:11Romans 11:1-36 ⁴⁵But for their sake I will remember the covenant with their fathers, 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.”[ † ]Romans 11:28Leviticus 22:33Leviticus 25:38Psalms 98:2Ezekiel 20:9-14, 22

⁴⁶These are the statutes, ordinances, and laws that the Lord established between Himself and the Israelites through Moses on Mount Sinai.[ † ]Leviticus 27:34Deuteronomy 6:1Deuteronomy 12:1John 1:17Leviticus 25:1