{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/web/leviticus/26","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-09T22:02:31.419Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WEB","book":"Leviticus","bookSlug":"leviticus","chapter":26,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":25,"nextChapter":27,"totalChapters":27,"totalVerses":46},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"|'You shall make for yourselves no idols, neither shall you raise up an engraved image or a pillar, neither shall you place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it: for I am Yahweh your God."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"|'You shall keep my Sabbaths, and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am Yahweh."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"|'If you walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Your threshing shall reach to the vintage, and the vintage shall reach to the sowing time; and you shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"|'I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and no one will make you afraid; and I will remove evil animals out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand; and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"|'I will have respect for you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"You shall eat old store long kept, and you shall move out the old because of the new."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"I will set my tent among you: and my soul won't abhor you."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you will be my people."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"I am Yahweh your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves; and I have broken the bars of your yoke, and made you go upright."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"|'But if you will not listen to me, and will not do all these commandments;"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"and if you shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhors my ordinances, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant;"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away; and you will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"I will set my face against you, and you will be struck before your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you; and you will flee when no one pursues you."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"|'If you in spite of these things will not listen to me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron, and your soil like brass;"},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"and your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won't yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruit."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"|'If you walk contrary to me, and won't listen to me, then I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to your sins."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"I will send the wild animals among you, which will rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number; and your roads will become desolate."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"|'If by these things you won't be reformed to me, but will walk contrary to me;"},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"then I will also walk contrary to you; and I will strike you, even I, seven times for your sins."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"I will bring a sword upon you, that will execute the vengeance of the covenant; and you will be gathered together within your cities: and I will send the pestilence among you; and you will be delivered into the hand of the enemy."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight: and you shall eat, and not be satisfied."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"|'If you in spite of this won't listen to me, but walk contrary to me;"},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"then I will walk contrary to you in wrath; and I also will chastise you seven times for your sins."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"You will eat the flesh of your sons, and you will eat the flesh of your daughters."},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"I will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you."},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"I will lay your cities waste, and will bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not take delight in the sweet fragrance of your offerings."},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"I will bring the land into desolation; and your enemies that dwell therein will be astonished at it."},{"verseNumber":33,"text":"I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you: and your land will be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste."},{"verseNumber":34,"text":"Then the land will enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies' land. Even then the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths."},{"verseNumber":35,"text":"As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it didn't have in your sabbaths, when you lived on it."},{"verseNumber":36,"text":"|'As for those of you who are left, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies: and the sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword; and they will fall when no one pursues."},{"verseNumber":37,"text":"They will stumble over one another, as it were before the sword, when no one pursues: and you will have no power to stand before your enemies."},{"verseNumber":38,"text":"You will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will eat you up."},{"verseNumber":39,"text":"Those of you who are left will pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them."},{"verseNumber":40,"text":"|'If they confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me, and also that, because they walked contrary to me,"},{"verseNumber":41,"text":"I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies: if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity;"},{"verseNumber":42,"text":"then I will remember my covenant with Jacob; and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham; and I will remember the land."},{"verseNumber":43,"text":"The land also will be left by them, and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them: and they will accept the punishment of their iniquity; because, even because they rejected my ordinances, and their soul abhorred my statutes."},{"verseNumber":44,"text":"Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them; for I am Yahweh their God;"},{"verseNumber":45,"text":"but I will for their sake remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. I am Yahweh.'|"},{"verseNumber":46,"text":"These are the statutes, ordinances and laws, which Yahweh made between him and the children of Israel in Mount Sinai by Moses."}],"citation":{"inline":"Leviticus 26 (WEB)","markdown":"[Leviticus 26](https://primebible.com/web/leviticus/26)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WEB. https://primebible.com/web/leviticus/26 (accessed 2026-06-09)."}}