Catholic Public Domain Version

Leviticus 26:1-18 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

1. I am the Lord your God. You shall not make for yourselves an idol or a graven image. Neither shall you erect a monument, or set up a conspicuous stone in your land, in order that you may adore it. For I am the Lord your God.

2. Observe my Sabbaths, and be fearful toward my Sanctuary. I am the Lord.

3. If you will walk in my precepts, and observe my commandments, and accomplish them, I will give to you rain in its time,

4. and the ground shall bring forth its seedlings, and the trees shall be filled again with fruit.

5. The threshing of the harvest shall last until the vintage, and the vintage shall overtake the sowing. And you shall eat your bread to fullness, and you shall live in your land without fear.

6. I will give peace to your most distant regions. You will sleep, and there will be no one to strike you with terror. I will take away harmful wild beasts, and the sword will not cross your borders.

7. You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall down at the sight of you.

8. Five of yours will pursue a hundred foreigners, and a hundred of you will pursue ten thousand. Your enemies will fall by the sword in your sight.

9. I will look with favor upon you, and I will cause you to increase; you will be multiplied, and I will confirm my covenant with you.

10. You will eat the oldest of what is old, and, when what is new arrives, you will throw away what is old.

11. I will set my tabernacle in your midst, and my soul will not cast you out.

12. I will walk among you, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people.

13. I am the Lord your God, who led you away from the land of the Egyptians, lest you serve them, and who broke the chains around your necks, so that you would walk upright.

14. But if you will not listen to me, nor accomplish all of my commandments,

15. if you despise my laws, and disdain my judgments, so that you do not accomplish those things which have been established by me, and so that you lead my covenant away into nullification,

16. then I also will do these things to you. I will quickly visit you with destitution, and burning heat, which will waste away your eyes, and consume your lives. In vain will you sow your seed, which will be devoured by your enemies.

17. I will set my face against you, and you will fall down before your enemies, and you will be subjugated to those who hate you. You will flee, though no one pursues.

18. But if you will not be obedient to me in this way, then I will add sevenfold to your chastisement, because of your sins.