| King James Bible | New International 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"'Do not make idols or set up an image or a sacred stone for yourselves, and do not place a carved stone in your land to bow down before it. I am the LORD your God. |
| 2Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD. | 2"'Observe my Sabbaths and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am the LORD. |
| 3If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them; | 3"'If you follow my decrees and are careful to obey my commands, |
| 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. | 4I will send you rain in its season, and the ground will yield its crops and the trees 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. | 5Your threshing will continue until grape harvest and the grape harvest will continue until planting, and you will eat all the food you want and live in safety 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. | 6"'I will grant peace in the land, and you will lie down and no one will make you afraid. I will remove wild beasts from the land, and the sword will not pass through your country. |
| 7And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword. | 7You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall 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, and 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 will look on you with favor and make you fruitful and increase your numbers, and I will keep my covenant with you. |
| 10And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new. | 10You will still be eating last year's harvest when you will have to move it out to make room for the new. |
| 11And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you. | 11I will put my dwelling place among you, and I will not abhor you. |
| 12And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people. | 12I will walk among you and be your God, and you will 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 Egypt so that you would no longer be slaves to the Egyptians; I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to walk with heads held high. |
| 14But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments; | 14"'But if you will not listen to me and carry out 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 reject my decrees and abhor my laws and fail to carry out all my commands and so violate 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 do this to you: I will bring on you sudden terror, wasting diseases and fever that will destroy your sight and sap your strength. You will plant seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it. |
| 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 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 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 after all this you will not listen to me, I will punish you for your sins seven times over. |
| 19And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass: | 19I will break down your stubborn pride and make the sky above you like iron and the ground beneath you 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 soil will not yield its crops, nor will the trees of your land 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 remain hostile toward me and refuse to listen to me, I will multiply your afflictions seven times over, as your sins deserve. |
| 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 will send wild animals against you, and they will rob you of your children, destroy your cattle and make you so few in number that your roads will be deserted. |
| 23And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me; | 23"'If in spite of these things you do not accept my correction but continue to be hostile toward me, |
| 24Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins. | 24I myself will be hostile toward you and will afflict you for your sins seven times over. |
| 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. | 25And I will bring the sword on you to avenge the breaking of the covenant. When you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague among you, and you will be given into enemy hands. |
| 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 cut off your supply of bread, ten women will be able to bake your bread in one oven, and they will dole out the bread by weight. You will eat, but you will not be satisfied. |
| 27And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me; | 27"'If in spite of this you still do not listen to me but continue to be hostile toward me, |
| 28Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins. | 28then in my anger I will be hostile toward you, and I myself will punish you for your sins seven times over. |
| 29And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat. | 29You will eat the flesh of your sons and 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 will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars and pile your dead bodies on the lifeless forms of your idols, and I will abhor 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 will turn your cities into ruins and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will take no delight in the pleasing aroma of your offerings. |
| 32And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it. | 32I myself will lay waste the land, so that your enemies who live there will be appalled. |
| 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. | 33I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out my sword and pursue you. Your land will be laid waste, and your cities will lie in 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 enjoy its sabbath years all the time that it lies desolate and you are in the country of your enemies; then the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths. |
| 35As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it. | 35All the time that it lies desolate, the land will have the rest it did not have during the sabbaths you lived 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 those of you who are left, I will make their hearts so fearful in the lands of their enemies that the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to flight. They will run as though fleeing from the sword, and they will fall, even though no one is pursuing them. |
| 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 will stumble over one another as though fleeing from the sword, even though no one is pursuing them. So you will not be able to stand before your enemies. |
| 38And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up. | 38You will perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will devour 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. | 39Those of you who are left will waste away in the lands of their enemies because of their sins; also because of their ancestors' sins they will waste away. |
| 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"'But if they will confess their sins and the sins of their ancestors--their unfaithfulness and their hostility toward 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: | 41which made me hostile toward them so that I sent them into the land of their enemies--then when their uncircumcised hearts are humbled and they pay for their sin, |
| 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. | 42I will remember my covenant with Jacob and my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will 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. | 43For the land will be deserted by them and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them. They will pay for their sins because they rejected my laws and abhorred my decrees. |
| 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 in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them or abhor them so as to destroy them completely, breaking my covenant with them. 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. | 45But for their sake I will remember the covenant with their ancestors whom I brought out of Egypt in the sight of the nations to 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 decrees, the laws and the regulations that the LORD established at Mount Sinai between himself and the Israelites through Moses. |
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