1. ⌊The Lord continued,⌋ “Never make worthless idols or set up a carved statue or a sacred stone for yourselves. Never cut figures in stone to worship them in your country, because I am the Lord your God.
2. Observe my days of worship and respect my holy tent. I am the Lord.
3. “This is what I will do if you will live by my laws and carefully obey my commands:
4. “I will give you rain at the right time. The land will produce its crops, and the trees in the field will produce their fruit.
5. Threshing time will last until grape gathering, and grape gathering will last until planting. You will eat all you want and live securely in your land.
6. “I will bring peace to your land. You will lie down with no one to scare you. I will remove dangerous animals, and there will be no war in your land.
7. You will chase your enemies, and you will defeat them.
8. Five of you will chase a hundred of them, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand of them. You will defeat your enemies,
9. and I will be pleased with you. Your families will be large, and I will keep my promise to you.
10. You will clear out old food supplies to make room for new ones.
11. “I will put my tent among you, and I will never look at you with disgust.
12. So I will live among you and be your God, and you will be my people.
13. I am the Lord your God. I brought you out of Egypt so that you are no longer slaves of the Egyptians. I have broken their power over you and made you live as a free people.
14. “If you will not listen to me and obey all these commands,
15. if you reject my laws and look at my rules with disgust, if you reject my promise by disobeying my commands,
16. then this is what I will do to you: I will terrorize you with disease and fever. You will suffer from eye problems and depression. You will plant your crops and get nothing because your enemies will eat them.
17. I will condemn you so that you will go down in defeat in front of your enemies. Those who hate you will be your rulers. You will run away even when no one is chasing you.