Leviticus
Chapter 26
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1You shall not make empty gods for yourselves. You shall not raise up an idol or a standing stone for yourselves, and you shall not set a figured stone in your land to bow down on it, because I am God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God.
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Elilim are empty gods. Pesel is an idol. Matzevah is a standing stone. Even maskit is a figured stone, a stone set to be bowed on.
2You shall keep my Times of rest set aside for God. and fear my A holy place set aside for God.. I am God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
3If you walk in my Rules that are meant to last. and keep my commands and do them,
4I will give your rains in their time, and the land shall give its yield, and the tree of the field shall give its fruit.
5Your Beating cut grain so the seeds fall loose. shall reach the vintage, and the vintage shall reach the sowing, and you shall eat your food to the full and live in security in your land.
6I will give peace in the land. You shall lie down, and there will be no one to frighten you. I will make harmful beasts cease from the land, and a sword shall not pass through your land.
7You shall pursue your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.
8Five of you shall pursue a hundred, and a hundred of you shall pursue ten thousand, and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
9I will turn to you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will establish my A solemn agreement that binds God and people. with you.
10You shall eat old grain, long stored, and you shall bring the old out because of the new.
11I will set my dwelling among you, and my person shall not loathe you.
12I will walk among you and be God to you, and you shall be a people to me.
13I am God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from being slaves to them. I broke the bars of your yoke and made you walk upright.
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Qomemiyyut is upright, walking with the head up. Motot ull are the bars of the yoke.
14But if you do not listen to me and do not do all these commands,
15and if you reject my Rules that are meant to last., and if your person loathes my rules, so that you do not do all my commands, and so break my A solemn agreement that binds God and people.,
16I for my part will do this to you. I will appoint over you sudden terror, wasting and fever, finishing the eyes and wasting the person. You shall sow your seed for nothing, and your enemies shall eat it.
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Shachefet is wasting. Qaddachat is fever. They are not given a modern disease name. Behalah is sudden terror.
17I will set my face against you, and you shall be struck before your enemies. Those who hate you shall rule over you, and you shall flee when no one is pursuing you.
18If even after these things you do not listen to me, I will discipline you further, seven times for your offenses.
19I will break the pride of your strength. I will make your sky like iron and your land like bronze.
20Your strength shall be spent for nothing. Your land shall not give its yield, and the tree of the land shall not give its fruit.
21If you walk with me in opposition and are not willing to listen to me, I will add a blow on you seven times according to your offenses.
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Qeri is opposition, walking the other way. The same word is used when Yahweh says he will walk in opposition too.
22I will send the beast of the field among you, and it shall bereave you of children, cut off your livestock, and make you few, and your roads shall be desolate.
23If by these things you are not disciplined toward me, and you walk with me in opposition,
24I too will walk with you in opposition, and I myself will strike you seven times for your offenses.
25I will bring a sword against you, avenging the vengeance of the A solemn agreement that binds God and people.. You shall be gathered into your cities. I will send a plague among you, and you shall be given into an enemy’s hand.
26When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven and return your bread by weight, and you shall eat and not be filled.
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Matteh lechem is the staff of bread, the supply that holds people up. Breaking it is the failure of that supply.
27If despite this you do not listen to me, and you walk with me in opposition,
28I will walk with you in the heat of opposition, and I myself will discipline you seven times for your offenses.
29You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters you shall eat.
30I will destroy your high places and cut down your chammanim, and I will put your corpses on the corpses of your idols, and my person will loathe you.
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Bamot are high places. Chammanim are kept as the Hebrew name. They are cult objects, often connected with heat. The object is not secure. Gillulim are idols, lumps.
31I will make your cities a ruin and desolate your Holy places set aside for God., and I will not smell your soothing scent.
32I myself will desolate the land, and your enemies who live in it shall be appalled at it.
33I will scatter you among the nations and draw a sword out after you. Your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a ruin.
34Then the land shall accept its Times of rest set aside for God., all the days of its desolation, while you are in the land of your enemies. Then the land shall rest and accept its Times of rest set aside for God..
35All the days of the desolation it shall rest, the rest it did not rest on your Times of rest set aside for God. when you were living on it.
36Those who are left among you, I will bring faintness into their heart in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf shall pursue them, and they shall flee as one flees the sword, and they shall fall when no one is pursuing.
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Morekh is faintness. Aleh niddaph is a leaf driven by the wind. The sound of it is enough to make them run.
37They shall stumble over one another as before the sword, and there is no pursuer. You shall have no standing before your enemies.
38You shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you.
39Those who are left among you shall waste away in their guilt in the lands of your enemies. Also in the guilt of their fathers with them they shall waste away.
40They shall confess their guilt and the guilt of their fathers, in the breach of trust they committed against me, and also that they walked with me in opposition.
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Ma’al is a breach of trust, as in the guilt offering. The confession names that breach.
41I too will walk with them in opposition and bring them into the land of their enemies. Or then their Not opened to God. An uncircumcised heart still resists him. heart will be humbled, and then they will pay for their guilt.
42I will remember my A solemn agreement that binds God and people. with Jacob, and also my A solemn agreement that binds God and people. with Isaac, and also my A solemn agreement that binds God and people. with Abraham I will remember, and I will remember the land.
43The land shall be left by them and shall accept its Times of rest set aside for God. while it is desolate of them, and they shall pay for their guilt, because, even because, they rejected my rules and their person loathed my Rules that are meant to last..
44Even so, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them and I will not loathe them so as to finish them, breaking my A solemn agreement that binds God and people. with them, because I am God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. their God.
45I will remember for them the A solemn agreement that binds God and people. of the first ones, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the eyes of the nations, to be God to them. I am God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
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Berit rishonim is the covenant with the first ones, the ancestors brought out of Egypt. Berit is covenant. See the glossary.
46These are the Rules that are meant to last. and the rules and the instructions that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. gave between himself and the sons of Israel at Mount Sinai, by the hand of Moses.