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You shall make for yourselves no idols and erect no graven image or pillar ,
and you shall not set up a figured stone in your land ,
to bow down to them ;
for I am the LORD your God .
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You shall keep my sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary :
I am the LORD .
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If you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them ,
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then I will give you your rains in their season ,
and the land shall yield its increase ,
and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit .
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And your threshing shall last to the time of vintage ,
and the vintage shall last to the time for sowing ;
and you shall eat your bread to the full ,
and dwell in your land securely .
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And I will give peace in the land ,
and you shall lie down ,
and none shall make you afraid ;
and I will remove evil beasts from the land ,
and the sword shall not go through your land .
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And you shall chase your enemies ,
and they shall fall before you by the sword .
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Five of you shall chase a hundred ,
and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand ;
and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword .
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And I will have regard for you and make you fruitful and multiply you ,
and will confirm my covenant with you .
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And you shall eat old store long kept ,
and you shall clear out the old to make way for the new .
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And I will make my abode among you ,
and my soul shall not abhor you .
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And I will walk among you ,
and will be your God ,
and you shall be my people .
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I am the LORD your God ,
who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt ,
that you should not be their slaves ;
and I have broken the bars of your yoke and made you walk erect .
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But if you will not hearken to me ,
and will not do all these commandments ,
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if you spurn my statutes ,
and if your soul abhors my ordinances ,
so that you will not do all my commandments ,
but break my covenant ,
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I will do this to you :
I will appoint over you sudden terror ,
consumption ,
and fever that waste the eyes and cause life to pine away .
And you shall sow your seed in vain ,
for your enemies shall eat it ;
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I will set my face against you ,
and you shall be smitten before your enemies ;
those who hate you shall rule over you ,
and you shall flee when none pursues you .
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And if in spite of this you will not hearken to me ,
then I will chastise you again sevenfold for your sins ,
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and I will break the pride of your power ,
and I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like brass ;
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and your strength shall be spent in vain ,
for your land shall not yield its increase ,
and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit .
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Then if you walk contrary to me ,
and will not hearken to me ,
I will bring more plagues upon you ,
sevenfold as many as your sins .
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And I will let loose the wild beasts among you ,
which shall rob you of your children ,
and destroy your cattle ,
and make you few in number ,
so that your ways shall become desolate .
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And if by this discipline you are not turned to me ,
but walk contrary to me ,
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then I also will walk contrary to you ,
and I myself will smite you sevenfold for your sins .
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And I will bring a sword upon you ,
that shall execute vengeance for the covenant ;
and if you gather within your cities I will send pestilence among you ,
and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy .
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When I break your staff of bread ,
ten women shall bake your bread in one oven ,
and shall deliver your bread again by weight ;
and you shall eat ,
and not be satisfied .
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And if in spite of this you will not hearken to me ,
but walk contrary to me ,
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then I will walk contrary to you in fury ,
and chastise you myself sevenfold for your sins .
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You shall eat the flesh of your sons ,
and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters .
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And I will destroy your high places ,
and cut down your incense altars ,
and cast your dead bodies upon the dead bodies of your idols ;
and my soul will abhor you .
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And I will lay your cities waste ,
and will make your sanctuaries desolate ,
and I will not smell your pleasing odors .
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And I will devastate the land ,
so that your enemies who settle in it shall be astonished at it .
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And I will scatter you among the nations ,
and I will unsheathe the sword after you ;
and your land shall be a desolation ,
and your cities shall be a waste .
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Then the land shall enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate ,
while you are in your enemies '
land ;
then the land shall rest ,
and enjoy its sabbaths .
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As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest ,
the rest which it had not in your sabbaths when you dwelt upon it .
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And as for those of you that are left ,
I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies ;
the sound of a driven leaf shall put them to flight ,
and they shall flee as one flees from the sword ,
and they shall fall when none pursues .
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They shall stumble over one another ,
as if to escape a sword ,
though none pursues ;
and you shall have no power to stand before your enemies .
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And you shall perish among the nations ,
and the land of your enemies shall eat you up .
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And those of you that are left shall pine away in your enemies '
lands because of their iniquity ;
and also because of the iniquities of their fathers they shall pine away like them .
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But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers in their treachery which they committed against me ,
and also in walking contrary to me ,
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so that I walked contrary to them and brought them into the land of their enemies ;
if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled and they make amends for their iniquity ;
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then I will remember my covenant with Jacob ,
and I will remember my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham ,
and I will remember the land .
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But the land shall be left by them ,
and enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them ;
and they shall make amends for their iniquity ,
because they spurned my ordinances ,
and their soul abhorred my statutes .
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Yet for all that ,
when they are in the land of their enemies ,
I will not spurn them ,
neither will I abhor them so as to destroy them utterly and break my covenant with them ;
for I am the LORD their God ;
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but I will for their sake remember the covenant with their forefathers ,
whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations ,
that I might be their God :
I am the LORD ."
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These are the statutes and ordinances and laws which the LORD made between him and the people of Israel on Mount Sinai by Moses .