| King James Bible | International Standard Version |
| 1Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God. | 1"You are not to make worthless idols, images, or pillars for yourselves, nor set up for yourselves carved images to bow down to them in the land, because I am the LORD your God. |
| 2Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD. | 2"You are to keep my Sabbath and fear my sanctuary. I am the LORD. |
| 3If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them; | 3"If you live by my statutes, obey my commands, and observe them, |
| 4Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. | 4then I'll send your rain in its season so that the land will yield its produce and the trees of the field will yield their fruit. |
| 5And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely. | 5Threshing will extend to the time of vintage and the vintage will extend to the time of sowing, so that you'll eat your bread to your satisfaction and live securely in your land. |
| 6And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land. | 6I'll give peace in the land so that you'll lie down without fear. I'll remove wild beasts from the land, and not even war will come to your land. |
| 7And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword. | 7Instead, you'll pursue your enemies and they'll die by the sword before you. |
| 8And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword. | 8Five of you will chase a hundred, a hundred of you will chase ten thousand, and your enemies will fall by the sword before you. |
| 9For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you. | 9"I'll look after you, ensuring that you'll be fruitful. I'll increase your number and keep my covenant with you. |
| 10And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new. | 10When you have consumed what was stored of the old, then you'll take out the old and replace it with what's new. |
| 11And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you. | 11I'll set up my tent in your midst and I won't loathe you. |
| 12And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people. | 12I'll walk among you. I will be your God, and you'll be my people. |
| 13I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright. | 13I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so that you will no longer be their slaves, since I've broken their oppressive yoke upon you to make you walk upright." |
| 14But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments; | 14"But if you won't listen to me and obey all these commands, |
| 15And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant: | 15and if you refuse my statutes, loathe my ordinances, and fail to carry out all of my commands, thereby breaching my covenant, |
| 16I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. | 16then I will certainly do this to you: I'll appoint sudden terror to infect you like tuberculosis and fever. Your eyes will fail and your life will waste away. You'll plant in vain, because your enemies will consume what you plant. |
| 17And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you. | 17I'll set my face against you so that you'll be defeated before your enemies. Those who hate you will have dominion over you and you'll keep fleeing even when no one is pursuing you. |
| 18And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins. | 18"If, despite all of this, you still don't listen to me, then I'll punish you seven times more on account of your sins. |
| 19And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass: | 19I'll break your mighty pride. I'll make the heavens to be like iron and the ground like bronze. |
| 20And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits. | 20Your strength will be spent in vain, because your land won't yield its produce and the trees of the land won't yield their fruit. |
| 21And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins. | 21"If you live life contrary to me and remain unwilling to listen to me, then I'll add to your wounds seven times more on account of your sins. |
| 22I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate. | 22I'll send wild beasts against you from the open country to deprive you of your children, destroy your cattle, and decrease your number so that your roads become desolate. |
| 23And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me; | 23"If, despite these things, you still won't return to me, but live life contrary to me, |
| 24Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins. | 24then I'll certainly oppose you. I'll take vengeance against you seven fold on account of your sins. |
| 25And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy. | 25I'll bring the sword against you to execute the vengeance of my covenant. When you gather in your cities, I'll send a pestilence. As a result, you'll be delivered into the control of your enemies. |
| 26And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied. | 26When I destroy the source of your bread, ten women will bake bread in one oven. Then they'll return back your bread by weight. You'll eat but won't be satisfied. |
| 27And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me; | 27"If, after all of this time, you don't listen to me, but instead live life contrary to me, |
| 28Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins. | 28I'll oppose you with vicious rage. Indeed, I myself will punish you seven fold on account of your sins. |
| 29And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat. | 29At that time, you'll eat the flesh of your sons and you'll eat the flesh of your daughters. |
| 30And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you. | 30I'll destroy your high places and cut down your sun pillars. Then I'll cast your dead bodies on top of the bodies of your idols. I'll loathe you. |
| 31And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours. | 31I'll lay your cities to waste and destroy your sanctuaries so I don't have to smell the scent of your soothing odors. |
| 32And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it. | 32I'll make the land so desolate that your enemies who live in it will be astonished." |
| 33And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste. | 33"I'll scatter you among the nations and draw the sword after you so that your land becomes desolate and your towns become ruins. |
| 34Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths. | 34Then the land will finally be pleased with its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate while you are in the land of your enemies. At that time, the land will rest and take its Sabbaths. |
| 35As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it. | 35As long as it lies desolate, it will have rest that it will not have had during your Sabbaths when you were living in it. |
| 36And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth. | 36"As for the remnants among you, I'll bring despair in their hearts in the land of their enemies so that even the sound of a blown leaf will chase them and they flee as though pursued by the sword and fall when no one is pursuing. |
| 37And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies. | 37They'll stumble over each other as though fleeing before the sword, even though no one is pursuing. "You won't have power to resist your enemies. |
| 38And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up. | 38You'll perish among the nations and the land of your enemies will consume you. |
| 39And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them. | 39The remnants among you will waste away in the land of your enemies due to their iniquity. Indeed, they'll also waste away on account of the iniquities of their ancestors with them." |
| 40If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me; | 40"Nevertheless, when they confess their iniquity, the iniquity of their ancestors, and their unfaithfulness by which they acted unfaithfully against me by living life contrary to me— |
| 41And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity: | 41causing me to oppose them and take them to the land of their enemies so that the uncircumcised foreskin of their hearts can be humbled and so that they accept the punishment of their iniquity— |
| 42Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land. | 42then I'll remember my covenant with Jacob, my covenant with Isaac, and my covenant with Abraham. I'll also remember the land. |
| 43The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes. | 43They will leave the land so it can rest while it lies desolate without them. That's when they'll receive the punishment of their iniquity, because indeed they will have rejected my ordinances and despised my statutes. |
| 44And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God. | 44Yet, despite all of these things, when they're in the land of their enemies, I won't reject or despise them so as to completely destroy them and by doing so violate my covenant with them, because I am the LORD their God. |
| 45But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I am the LORD. | 45Instead, on account of them, I'll remember my covenant with their ancestors when I brought them out of the land of Egypt right before the eyes of the nations, so that I could be their God. I am the LORD." |
| 46These are the statutes and judgments and laws, which the LORD made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses. | 46These are the statutes, ordinances, and laws that the LORD made between himself and the Israelis on Mount Sinai, as recorded by the hand of Moses. |
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