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- " 'Do not make idols or set up an image or a sacred stone for yourselves, and do not place a carved stone in your land to bow down before it. I am the LORD your God.
- " 'Observe my Sabbaths and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am the LORD.
- " 'If you follow my decrees and are careful to obey my commands,
- I will send you rain in its season, and the ground will yield its crops and the trees of the field their fruit.
- Your threshing will continue until grape harvest and the grape harvest will continue until planting, and you will eat all the food you want and live in safety in your land.
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- 'You shall not make for yourselves idols, nor shall you set up for yourselves an image or a sacred pillar, nor shall you place a figured stone in your land to bow down to it; for I am the LORD your God.
- 'You shall keep My sabbaths and reverence My sanctuary; I am the LORD.
- 'If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments so as to carry them out,
- then I shall give you rains in their season, so that the land will yield its produce and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.
- 'Indeed, your threshing will last for you until grape gathering, and grape gathering will last until sowing time You will thus eat your food to the full and live securely in your land.
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- " 'I will grant peace in the land, and you will lie down and no one will make you afraid. I will remove savage beasts from the land, and the sword will not pass through your country.
- You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall by the sword before you.
- Five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand, and your enemies will fall by the sword before you.
- " 'I will look on you with favor and make you fruitful and increase your numbers, and I will keep my covenant with you.
- You will still be eating last year's harvest when you will have to move it out to make room for the new.
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- 'I shall also grant peace in the land, so that you may lie down with no one making you tremble I shall also eliminate harmful beasts from the land, and no sword will pass through your land.
- 'But you will chase your enemies and they will fall before you by the sword;
- five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand, and your enemies will fall before you by the sword.
- 'So I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will confirm My covenant with you.
- 'You will eat the old supply and clear out the old because of the new.
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- I will put my dwelling place among you, and I will not abhor you.
- I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be my people.
- I am the LORD your God, who brought you out 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 with heads held high.
- " 'But if you will not listen to me and carry out all these commands,
- and if you reject my decrees and abhor my laws and fail to carry out all my commands and so violate my covenant,
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- 'Moreover, I will make My dwelling among you, and My soul will not reject you.
- 'I will also walk among you and be your God, and you shall be My people.
- 'I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so that you would not be their slaves, and I broke the bars of your yoke and made you walk erect.
- 'But if you do not obey Me and do not carry out all these commandments,
- if, instead, you reject My statutes, and if your soul abhors My ordinances so as not to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant,
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- then I will do this to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting diseases and fever that will destroy your sight and drain away your life. You will plant seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.
- 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 even when no one is pursuing you.
- " 'If after all this you will not listen to me, I will punish you for your sins seven times over.
- I will break down your stubborn pride and make the sky above you like iron and the ground beneath you like bronze.
- Your strength will be spent in vain, because your soil will not yield its crops, nor will the trees of the land yield their fruit.
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- I, in turn, will do this to you: I will appoint over you a sudden terror, consumption and fever that will waste away the eyes and cause the soul to pine away; also, you will sow your seed uselessly, for your enemies will eat it up.
- 'I will set My face against you so that you will be struck down before your enemies; and those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when no one is pursuing you.
- 'If also after these things you do not obey Me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.
- 'I will also break down your pride of power; I will also make your sky like iron and your earth like bronze.
- 'Your strength will be spent uselessly, for your land will not yield its produce and the trees of the land will not yield their fruit.
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- " 'If you remain hostile toward me and refuse to listen to me, I will multiply your afflictions seven times over, as your sins deserve.
- I will send wild animals against you, and they will rob you of your children, destroy your cattle and make you so few in number that your roads will be deserted.
- " 'If in spite of these things you do not accept my correction but continue to be hostile toward me,
- I myself will be hostile toward you and will afflict you for your sins seven times over.
- And I will bring the sword upon you to avenge the breaking of the covenant. When you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague among you, and you will be given into enemy hands.
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- 'If then, you act with hostility against Me and are unwilling to obey Me, I will increase the plague on you seven times according to your sins.
- 'I will let loose among you the beasts of the field, which will bereave you of your children and destroy your cattle and reduce your number so that your roads lie deserted.
- 'And if by these things you are not turned to Me, but act with hostility against Me,
- then I will act with hostility against you; and I, even I, will strike you seven times for your sins.
- 'I will also bring upon you a sword which will execute vengeance for the covenant; and when you gather together into your cities, I will send pestilence among you, so that you shall be delivered into enemy hands.
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- When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will be able to bake your bread in one oven, and they will dole out the bread by weight. You will eat, but you will not be satisfied.
- " 'If in spite of this you still do not listen to me but continue to be hostile toward me,
- then in my anger I will be hostile toward you, and I myself will punish you for your sins seven times over.
- You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters.
- I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars and pile your dead bodies on the lifeless forms of your idols, and I will abhor you.
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- 'When I break your staff of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven, and they will bring back your bread in rationed amounts, so that you will eat and not be satisfied.
- 'Yet if in spite of this you do not obey Me, but act with hostility against Me,
- then I will act with wrathful hostility against you, and I, even I, will punish you seven times for your sins.
- 'Further, you will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters you will eat.
- 'I then will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and heap your remains on the remains of your idols, for My soul shall abhor you.
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- I will turn your cities into ruins and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will take no delight in the pleasing aroma of your offerings.
- I will lay waste the land, so that your enemies who live there will be appalled.
- I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out my sword and pursue you. Your land will be laid waste, and your cities will lie in ruins.
- Then the land will enjoy its sabbath years all the time that it lies desolate and you are in the country of your enemies; then the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths.
- All the time that it lies desolate, the land will have the rest it did not have during the sabbaths you lived in it.
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- 'I will lay waste your cities as well and will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your soothing aromas.
- 'I will make the land desolate so that your enemies who settle in it will be appalled over it.
- 'You, however, I will scatter among the nations and will draw out a sword after you, as your land becomes desolate and your cities become waste.
- 'Then the land will enjoy its sabbaths all the days of the desolation, while you are in your enemies' land; then the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths.
- 'All the days of its desolation it will observe the rest which it did not observe on your sabbaths, while you were living on it.
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- " 'As for those of you who are left, I will make their hearts so fearful in the lands of their enemies that the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to flight. They will run as though fleeing from the sword, and they will fall, even though no one is pursuing them.
- They will stumble over one another as though fleeing from the sword, even though no one is pursuing them. So you will not be able to stand before your enemies.
- You will perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will devour you.
- Those of you who are left will waste away in the lands of their enemies because of their sins; also because of their fathers' sins they will waste away.
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- 'As for those of you who may be left, I will also bring weakness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. And the sound of a driven leaf will chase them, and even when no one is pursuing they will flee as though from the sword, and they will fall.
- 'They will therefore stumble over each other as if running from the sword, although no one is pursuing; and you will have no strength to stand up before your enemies.
- 'But you will perish among the nations, and your enemies' land will consume you.
- 'So those of you who may be left will rot away because of their iniquity in the lands of your enemies; and also because of the iniquities of their forefathers they will rot away with them.
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