| Berean Study Bible | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 1“You must not make idols for yourselves or set up a carved image or sacred pillar; you must not place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down to it. For I am the LORD your God. | 1Do not make idols for yourselves, set up a carved image or sacred pillar for yourselves, or place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am Yahweh your God. |
| 2You must keep My Sabbaths and have reverence for My sanctuary. I am the LORD. | 2You must keep My Sabbaths and revere My sanctuary; I am Yahweh." |
| 3If you follow My statutes and carefully keep My commandments, | 3If you follow My statutes and faithfully observe My commands, |
| 4I will give you rains in their season, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their fruit. | 4I will give you rain at the right time, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their fruit. |
| 5Your threshing will continue until the grape harvest, and the grape harvest will continue until sowing time; you will have your fill of food to eat and will dwell securely in your land. | 5Your threshing will continue until grape harvest, and the grape harvest will continue until sowing time; you will have plenty of food to eat and live securely in your land. |
| 6And I will give peace to the land, and you will lie down with nothing to fear. I will rid the land of dangerous animals, and no sword will pass through your land. | 6I will give peace to the land, and you will lie down with nothing to frighten you. I will remove dangerous animals from the land, and no sword will pass through your land. |
| 7You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall by the sword before you. | 7You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall before you by the sword. |
| 8Five of you will pursue a hundred, and a hundred of you will pursue ten thousand, and your enemies will fall by the sword before you. | 8Five of you will pursue 100, and 100 of you will pursue 10,000; your enemies will fall before you by the sword." |
| 9I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will establish My covenant with you. | 9I will turn to you, make you fruitful and multiply you, and confirm My covenant with you. |
| 10You will still be eating the old supply of grain when you need to clear it out to make room for the new. | 10You will eat the old grain of the previous year and will clear out the old to make room for the new. |
| 11And I will make My dwelling place among you, and My soul will not despise you. | 11I will place My residence among you, and I will not reject you. |
| 12I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be My people. | 12I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be My people. |
| 13I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land 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 in uprightness. | 13I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, so that you would no longer be their slaves. I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to live in freedom." |
| 14If, however, you fail to obey Me and to carry out all these commandments, | 14But if you do not obey Me and observe all these commands-- |
| 15and if you reject My statutes, despise My ordinances, and neglect to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant, | 15if you reject My statutes and despise My ordinances, and do not observe all My commands--and break My covenant, |
| 16then this is what I will do to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting disease, and fever that will destroy your sight and drain your life. You will sow your seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it. | 16then I will do this to you: I will bring terror on you--wasting disease and fever that will cause your eyes to fail and your life to ebb away. You will sow your seed in vain because your enemies will eat it. |
| 17And 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 when no one pursues you. | 17I will turn against you, so that you will be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee even though no one is pursuing you." |
| 18And if after all this you will not obey Me, I will proceed to punish you sevenfold for your sins. | 18But if after these things you will not obey Me, I will proceed to discipline you seven times for your sins. |
| 19I will break down your stubborn pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze, | 19I will break down your strong pride. I will make your sky like iron and your land like bronze, |
| 20and your strength will be spent in vain. For your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit. | 20and your strength will be used up for nothing. Your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit." |
| 21If you walk in hostility toward Me and refuse to obey Me, I will multiply your plagues seven times, according to your sins. | 21If you act with hostility toward Me and are unwilling to obey Me, I will multiply your plagues seven times for your sins. |
| 22I will send wild animals against you to rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and reduce your numbers, until your roads lie desolate. | 22I will send wild animals against you that will deprive you of your children, ravage your livestock, and reduce your numbers until your roads are deserted." |
| 23And if in spite of these things you do not accept My discipline, but continue to walk in hostility toward Me, | 23If in spite of these things you do not accept My discipline, but act with hostility toward Me, |
| 24then I will act with hostility toward you, and I will strike you sevenfold for your sins. | 24then I will act with hostility toward you; I also will strike you seven times for your sins. |
| 25And I will bring a sword against you to execute the vengeance of the covenant. Though you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague among you, and you will be delivered into the hand of the enemy. | 25I will bring a sword against you to execute the vengeance of the covenant. Though you withdraw into your cities, I will send a pestilence among you, and you will be delivered into enemy hands. |
| 26When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied. | 26When I cut off your supply of bread, 10 women will bake your bread in a single oven and ration out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied." |
| 27But if in spite of all this you do not obey Me, but continue to walk in hostility toward Me, | 27And if in spite of this you do not obey Me but act with hostility toward Me, |
| 28then I will walk in fury against you, and I, even I, will punish you sevenfold for your sins. | 28I will act with furious hostility toward you; I will also discipline you seven times for your sins. |
| 29You will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters. | 29You will eat the flesh of your sons; you will eat the flesh of your daughters. |
| 30I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your lifeless bodies on the lifeless remains of your idols; and My soul will despise you. | 30I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your dead bodies on the lifeless bodies of your idols; I will reject you. |
| 31I will reduce your cities to rubble and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will refuse to smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices. | 31I will reduce your cities to ruins and devastate your sanctuaries. I will not smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices. |
| 32And I will lay waste the land, so that your enemies who dwell in it will be appalled. | 32I also will devastate the land, so that your enemies who come to live there will be appalled by it. |
| 33But I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you as your land becomes desolate and your cities are laid waste. | 33But I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw a sword to chase after you. So your land will become desolate, and your cities will become ruins." |
| 34Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths all the days it lies desolate, while you are in the land of your enemies. At that time the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths. | 34Then the land will make up for its Sabbath years during the time it lies desolate, while you are in the land of your enemies. At that time the land will rest and make up for its Sabbaths. |
| 35As long as it lies desolate, the land will have the rest it did not receive during the Sabbaths when you lived in it. | 35As long as it lies desolate, it will have the rest it did not have during your Sabbaths when you lived there." |
| 36As for those of you who survive, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, so that even the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to flight. And they will flee as one flees the sword, and fall when no one pursues them. | 36I will put anxiety in the hearts of those of you who survive in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a wind-driven leaf will put them to flight, and they will flee as one flees from a sword, and fall though no one is pursuing them. |
| 37They will stumble over one another as before the sword, though no one is behind them. So you will not be able to stand against your enemies. | 37They will stumble over one another as if fleeing from a sword though no one is pursuing them. You will not be able to stand against your enemies. |
| 38You will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will consume you. | 38You will perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will devour you. |
| 39Those of you who survive in the lands of your enemies will waste away in their iniquity and will decay in the sins of their fathers. | 39Those who survive in the lands of your enemies will waste away because of their sin; they will also waste away because of their fathers' sins along with theirs." |
| 40But if they will confess their iniquity and that of their fathers in the unfaithfulness that they practiced against Me, by which they have also walked in hostility toward Me— | 40But if they will confess their sin and the sin of their fathers--their unfaithfulness that they practiced against Me, and how they acted with hostility toward Me, |
| 41and I acted with hostility toward them and brought them into the land of their enemies—and if their uncircumcised hearts will be humbled and they will make amends for their iniquity, | 41and I acted with hostility toward them and brought them into the land of their enemies--and if their uncircumcised hearts will be humbled, and if they will pay the penalty for their sin, |
| 42then I will remember My covenant with Jacob and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land. | 42then I will remember My covenant with Jacob. I will also remember My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land. |
| 43For the land will be abandoned by them, and it will enjoy its Sabbaths by lying desolate without them. And they will pay the penalty for their iniquity, because they rejected My ordinances and abhorred My statutes. | 43For the land abandoned by them will make up for its Sabbaths by lying desolate without the people, while they pay the penalty for their sin, because they rejected My ordinances and abhorred My statutes. |
| 44Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject or despise them so as to destroy them and break My covenant with them; for I am the LORD their God. | 44Yet in spite of this, while they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject or abhor them so as to destroy them and break My covenant with them, since I am Yahweh their God. |
| 45But for their sake I will remember the covenant with their fathers, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. I am the LORD.” | 45For their sake I will remember the covenant with their fathers, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations to be their God; I am Yahweh." |
| 46These are the statutes, ordinances, and laws that the LORD established between Himself and the Israelites through Moses on Mount Sinai. | 46These are the statutes, ordinances, and laws the LORD established between Himself and the Israelites through Moses on Mount Sinai. |
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