Ye shall make you no idols, nor graven image, neither rear you up any
pillar, neither ye shall set up any image of stone in your land to bow
your selves thereto: for I am the LORD your God; keep my Sabbaths and
fear my sanctuary. For I am the LORD. If ye shall walk in mine
ordinances and keep my commandments and do them, then I will send you
rain in the right season and your land shall yield her increase and the
trees of the field shall give their fruit. And the threshing shall
reach unto wine harvest, and the wine harvest shall reach unto sowing
time, and ye shall eat your bread in plenteousness, and shall dwell in
your land peaceably. And I will send peace in your land, that ye shall
sleep, and no man shall make you afraid. And I will rid evil beasts out
of your land, and there shall no sword go thorowout your land. And ye
shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you upon the
sword. And 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 upon the sword. And I will turn unto you and increase you and
multiply you, and set up my testament with you. And ye shall eat old
store, and cast out the old for plenteousness of the new. I will make
my dwelling place among you, and my soul shall not loathe you. And I
will walk among you and will be your God, and ye shall be my people.
For I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of the
Egyptians, that ye should not be their bondmen, and I brake the bows of
your yokes, and made you go up right. But and if ye will not hearken
unto me, nor will do all these my commandments, or if ye shall despise
mine ordinances either if your souls refuse my laws, so that ye will
not do all my commandments, but shall break mine appointment: then I
will do this again unto you: I will visit you with vexations, swelling
and fevers, that shall make your eyes dazzle, and with sorrows of
heart. And ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat
it. And I will set my face against you and ye shall fall before your
enemies, and they that hate you shall reign over you, and ye shall flee
when no man followeth you. And if ye will not yet for all this hearken
unto me, then will I punish you seven times more for your sins, and
will break the pride of your strength. For I will make the heaven over
you as hard as iron, and your land as hard as brass. And so your labour
shall be spent in vain. For your land shall not give her increase,
neither the trees of the land shall give their fruits. And 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. I will send in wild
beasts upon you, which shall rob you of your children and destroy your
cattle, and make you so few in number that your high ways shall grow
unto a wilderness. And if ye will not be learned yet for all this but
shall walk contrary unto me, then will I also walk contrary unto you
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