Blessings for Obedience

¹ “ ‘You¹ shall not make for yourselves idols and divine images, and you shall not raise up stone pillars for yourselves, and you shall not put a sculptured stone in your land in order to² worship before it, because I am Yahweh your God.

1. Plural throughout the entire chapter
2. Or “to”

² “ ‘You shall keep my Sabbaths, and you shall revere my sanctuary; I am Yahweh.

³ “ ‘If you walk in my statutes and you keep my commands and you do them,

⁴ then¹ I will give you rains in their time, and the land shall give its produce, and the trees of the field shall give their fruit.

1. Or “and”

⁵ And for you the threshing season shall overtake the grape harvest, and the grape harvest shall overtake the sowing, and you shall eat your food ⌞to your fill⌟¹ and you shall live ⌞securely⌟² in your land.

1. Literally “to contentment”
2. Literally “with confidence”

⁶ And I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and there shall not be ⌞anybody who makes you afraid⌟,¹ and I will remove harmful animals from the land, and ⌞no sword shall pass through your land⌟.²

1. Literally “who makes afraid” or “making afraid”
2. Literally “a sword shall not pass through in your land”

⁷ And you shall pursue your enemies, and they shall fall by the sword ⌞before you⌟.¹

1. Literally “to your faces”

⁸ And five of¹ you shall pursue a hundred, and a hundred of² you shall pursue a myriad;³ and your enemies shall fall by the sword ⌞before you⌟.⁴

1. Hebrew “from”
2. Hebrew “from”
3. Or “ten thousand”
4. Literally “to your faces”

⁹ And I will turn to you, and I will make you fruitful, and I will make you numerous; and I will keep my covenant with you.

¹⁰ And you shall eat ⌞old grain⌟,¹ and ⌞you shall clear away the old before the new⌟.²

1. Literally “old what is stale”
2. Literally “old from the faces of new you shall bring out”

¹¹ And I will put my dwelling place in your midst, and my inner self¹ shall not abhor you.

1. Or “soul”

¹² And I will walk about in your midst, and I shall be your God,¹ and you shall be my people.²

1. Or “as a God for you”
2. Or “as a people for me”

¹³ I am Yahweh, your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt, from being their slaves; and I broke the bars of your yoke, and I caused you to walk erectly.

Punishment for Disobedience

¹⁴ “ ‘But¹ if you do not listen to me and you do not carry out² all these commands,

1. Or “And”
2. Or “you do not do” or “you do not observe” or “you do not perform”

¹⁵ and if you reject my statutes and if your inner self¹ abhors my regulations, to not carry out² all my commands by your breaking my covenant,

1. Or “soul”
2. Or “do” or “observe” or “perform”

¹⁶ I ⌞in turn⌟¹ will do this to you: then² I will summon onto you horror, the wasting disease, and the fever that wastes eyes and that drains away life; and you shall sow your seed ⌞in vain⌟,³ and your enemies shall eat it.

1. Literally “also” or “indeed”
2. Or “and”
3. Literally “for the emptiness”

¹⁷ And I will set my face against you, and you shall be defeated ⌞before⌟¹ your enemies; and your haters shall rule over you, and you shall flee away, but² there shall not be ⌞anybody who is pursuing⌟³ you.

1. Literally “to the faces of”
2. Or “and”
3. Literally “who pursues” or “pursuing”

¹⁸ “ ‘And if in spite of these things you do not listen to me, then¹ I will continue to discipline you seven times for your sins.

1. Or “and”

¹⁹ And I will break the pride of your strength; and I will make your heaven like iron¹ and your land like copper.

1. Or “iron ore”

²⁰ And your strength shall be consumed ⌞in vain⌟;¹ and your land shall not give its produce, and the land’s trees shall not give their fruit.

1. Literally “to the emptiness”

²¹ “ ‘And if you go against me in hostility and you are not willing to listen to me, then¹ I will add a plague onto you seven times according to your sins.

1. Or “and”

²² And I will send ⌞wild animals⌟¹ out among you, and they shall make you childless, and they shall cut down your domestic animals, and they shall make you fewer; and your roads shall be desolate.

1. Literally “the animals of the field”

²³ “ ‘And if you do not accept correction from¹ me through these things, but² you go against me in hostility,

1. Hebrew “for” or “to”
2. Or “and”

²⁴ then¹ I myself² will also go against you in hostility, and I myself³ also will strike you seven times for your sins.

1. Or “and”
2. Emphatic personal pronoun
3. Emphatic personal pronoun

²⁵ And I will bring upon you a sword that seeks vengeance for the covenant, and you shall be gathered to your cities; and I will send a plague in your midst, and you shall be given into the hand of an enemy.

²⁶ At my breaking the ⌞supply⌟¹ of bread² for you, then³ ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall return your bread by weight; and you shall eat it, and you shall not be satisfied.

1. Literally “staff”
2. Or “food”
3. Or “and”

²⁷ “ ‘And if through this you do not listen to me and you go against me in hostility,

²⁸ then¹ I will go against you in hostile anger, and also² I myself³ will discipline you seven times for your sins.

1. Or “and”
2. Or “surely”
3. Emphatic personal pronoun

²⁹ And you shall eat the flesh of your sons; and the flesh of your daughters you shall eat.

³⁰ And I will destroy your high places, and I will cut down your incense altars, and I will place your corpses on your idols’ corpses; and my inner self¹ shall abhor you.

1. Or “soul”

³¹ And I will lay your cities in ruins, and I will lay waste your sanctuaries; and I shall not smell your sacrifices’¹ appeasing fragrance.

1. Implied by the use of the same phraseology in regard to the sacrifices in the early chapters of the book

³² And I myself¹ will lay waste the land, and your enemies who are living in it shall be appalled over it.

1. Emphatic personal pronoun

³³ And I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw a sword behind you; and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a ruin.

³⁴ Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths all the days of its lying desolate, and you shall be in the land of your enemies; then the land shall rest, and it shall enjoy its Sabbaths.

³⁵ All the days of its lying desolate it shall rest for the time¹ that it had not rested during your Sabbaths while you were living on it.

1. Implied by context

³⁶ As for¹ the ones who remain among you, I will bring² fearfulness in their hearts in the land of their enemies; and a sound of a windblown leaf shall pursue them, and they shall flee like flight ⌞before⌟³ a sword, and they shall fall, but⁴ there shall not be a pursuer.

1. Or “And”
2. Or “and I will bring”
3. Literally “of”
4. Or “and”

³⁷ And they shall stumble over ⌞one another⌟¹ as ⌞from before⌟² a sword, but³ there shall not be a pursuer; and ⌞you shall have no resistance⌟⁴ ⌞before⌟⁵ your enemies.

1. Literally “a man on his brother”
2. Literally “from the faces of”
3. Or “and”
4. Literally “it shall not be for you resistance”
5. Literally “to the faces of”

³⁸ And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you.

³⁹ And because of their guilt, the ones among you who remain shall decay in the land of their enemies; and also because of the iniquities of their ancestors,¹ they shall decay with them.

1. Or “fathers”

⁴⁰ “ ‘But¹ when they confess their guilt and the guilt of their ancestors² in their infidelity that they displayed against me, and moreover that they went against me in hostility—

1. Or “And”
2. Or “fathers”

⁴¹ I myself¹ also² went against them in hostility, and I brought them into the land of their enemies—or if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled and then they pay for their guilt,

1. Emphatic personal pronoun
2. Or “surely”

⁴² I will remember¹ my covenant with Jacob; and I will remember also my covenant with Isaac and also my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.

1. Or “and I will remember”

⁴³ And the land shall be deserted by them, and it shall enjoy its Sabbaths in its being desolate from them, and they themselves¹ must pay for their guilt, ⌞simply because⌟² they rejected my regulations, and their inner self³ abhorred my statutes.

1. Emphatic personal pronoun
2. Literally “because and in because”
3. Or “soul”

⁴⁴ And ⌞in spite of⌟¹ this, ⌞when they are⌟² in the land of their enemies I will not reject them, and I will not abhor them to destroy them, to break my covenant with them, because I am Yahweh their God.

1. Literally “also even” or “moreover also” or “moreover even”
2. Literally “in their being”

⁴⁵ And I will remember the first covenant for them¹—whom I brought out from the land of Egypt ⌞in the sight of⌟² the nations ⌞to be their God⌟.³ I am Yahweh.’ ”

1. Or “on behalf of them” or “on their behalf”
2. Literally “to the eyes of” or “for the eyes of”
3. Literally “to be for them for God” or “to be for them as a God”

⁴⁶ These are the rules and the regulations and the laws that Yahweh gave between himself and the ⌞Israelites⌟¹ on ⌞Mount Sinai⌟² ⌞through⌟³ Moses.