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Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/niv/leviticus/26.htm">New International Version</a></span><br />and if you reject my decrees and abhor my laws and fail to carry out all my commands and so violate my covenant,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/leviticus/26.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />and if you break my covenant by rejecting my decrees, treating my regulations with contempt, and refusing to obey my commands,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/leviticus/26.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />if you spurn my statutes, and if your soul abhors my rules, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/leviticus/26.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />and if you reject My statutes, despise My ordinances, and neglect to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/leviticus/26.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, <i>but</i> that ye break my covenant:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/leviticus/26.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />and if you despise My statutes, or if your soul abhors My judgments, so that you do not perform all My commandments, <i>but</i> break My covenant,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/leviticus/26.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />if, instead, you reject My statutes, and if your soul loathes My ordinances so as not to carry out all My commandments, <i>but rather</i> to break My covenant,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/leviticus/26.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />if, instead, you reject My statutes, and if your soul abhors My ordinances so as not to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/leviticus/26.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />if, instead, you reject My statutes, and if your soul abhors My ordinances so as not to carry out all My commandments, <i>and</i> so break My covenant,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/leviticus/26.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />if, instead, you reject My statutes, and if your soul loathes My judgments so as not to do all My commandments <i>and</i> so break My covenant,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/leviticus/26.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />if, instead, you reject My statutes, and if your soul rejects My ordinances, so that you will not [obediently] do all My commandments, and in this way break My covenant,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/leviticus/26.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />if you reject my statutes and despise my ordinances, and do not observe all my commands—and break my covenant,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/leviticus/26.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />if you reject My statutes and despise My ordinances, and do not observe all My commands—and break My covenant, <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/leviticus/26.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />and if ye shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhor mine ordinances, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/leviticus/26.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />and if ye shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/leviticus/26.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />if you reject my laws and look at my rules with disgust, if you reject my promise by disobeying my commands,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/leviticus/26.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />If you refuse to obey my laws and commands and break the covenant I have made with you, <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/leviticus/26.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />and if you refuse my statutes, loathe my ordinances, and fail to carry out all of my commands, thereby breaching my covenant, <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/leviticus/26.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />and if you reject My statutes, despise My ordinances, and neglect to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/leviticus/26.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />if you reject my statutes and abhor my regulations so that you do not keep all my commandments and you break my covenant--<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/leviticus/26.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />and if you shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhors my ordinances, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/leviticus/26.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul shall abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/leviticus/26.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />and if you shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhors my ordinances, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant, <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/leviticus/26.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />and if you kick at My statutes, and if your soul loathes My judgments, so as not to do all My commands—to your breaking My covenant—<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/leviticus/26.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> and if at My statutes ye kick, and if My judgments your soul loathe, so as not to do all My commands -- to your breaking My covenant -- <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/leviticus/26.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />And if ye shall reject my laws, and if your soul shall abhor my judgments so as not to do all my commands, to your breaking my covenant:<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/leviticus/26.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />If you despise my laws, and contemn my judgments so as not to do those things which are appointed by me, and to make void my covenant: <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/leviticus/26.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />if you despise my laws, and disdain my judgments, so that you do not accomplish those things which have been established by me, and so that you lead my covenant away into nullification,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/leviticus/26.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />if you reject my statutes and loathe my decrees, refusing to obey all my commandments and breaking my covenant,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/leviticus/26.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />if you spurn my statutes, and abhor my ordinances, so that you will not observe all my commandments, and you break my covenant,<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/leviticus/26.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />And if you despise my laws, or if your soul abhor my judgments so that you will not do all my commandments, and make my covenant of no effect;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/leviticus/26.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />If you will reject my Law and your souls will loathe my judgments and you will not do all of my commands and you shall nullify my covenant:<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/leviticus/26.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />and if ye shall reject My statutes, and if your soul abhor Mine ordinances, so that ye will not do all My commandments, but break My covenant;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/leviticus/26.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />but disobey them, and your soul should loathe my judgments, so that ye should not keep all my commands, so as to break my covenant,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/leviticus/26-15.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NWs_V1RyMFo?start=7214" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/leviticus/26.htm">Punishments for Disobedience</a></span><br><span class="reftext">14</span>If, however, you fail to obey Me and to carry out all these commandments, <span class="reftext">15</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/518.htm" title="518: wə·’im- (Conj) -- If. A primitive particle; used very widely as demonstrative, lo!">and if</a> <a href="/hebrew/3988.htm" title="3988: tim·’ā·sū (V-Qal-Imperf-2mp) -- To spurn, to disappear. A primitive root; to spurn; also to disappear.">you reject</a> <a href="/hebrew/518.htm" title="518: wə·’im (Conj) -- If. A primitive particle; used very widely as demonstrative, lo!"></a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’eṯ- (DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/2708.htm" title="2708: bə·ḥuq·qō·ṯay (Prep-b:: N-fpc:: 1cs) -- Something prescribed, an enactment, statute. Feminine of choq, and meaning substantially the same.">My statutes,</a> <a href="/hebrew/1602.htm" title="1602: tiḡ·‘al (V-Qal-Imperf-3fs) -- To abhor, loathe. A primitive root; to detest; by implication, to reject.">despise</a> <a href="/hebrew/5315.htm" title="5315: nap̄·šə·ḵem (N-fsc:: 2mp) -- From naphash; properly, a breathing creature, i.e. Animal of vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense."></a> <a href="/hebrew/4941.htm" title="4941: miš·pā·ṭay (N-mpc:: 1cs) -- Judgment. ">My ordinances,</a> <a href="/hebrew/1115.htm" title="1115: lə·ḇil·tî (Prep-l) -- Constructive feminine of balah; properly, a failure of, i.e. not, except, without, unless, besides, because not, until, etc.">and neglect</a> <a href="/hebrew/6213.htm" title="6213: ‘ă·śō·wṯ (V-Qal-Inf) -- To do, make. A primitive root; to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application.">to carry out</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’eṯ- (DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/3605.htm" title="3605: kāl- (N-msc) -- The whole, all. Or kowl; from kalal; properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every.">all</a> <a href="/hebrew/4687.htm" title="4687: miṣ·wō·ṯay (N-fpc:: 1cs) -- Commandment. From tsavah; a command, whether human or divine.">My commandments,</a> <a href="/hebrew/6565.htm" title="6565: lə·hap̄·rə·ḵem (Prep-l:: V-Hifil-Inf:: 2mp) -- To break up, to violate, frustrate. A primitive root; to break up">and so break</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’eṯ- (DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/1285.htm" title="1285: bə·rî·ṯî (N-fsc:: 1cs) -- A covenant. From barah (like bara'); a compact.">My covenant,</a> </span><span class="reftext">16</span>then this is what I will do to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting disease, and fever that will destroy your sight and drain your life. You will sow your seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/28-15.htm">Deuteronomy 28:15</a></span><br />If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/28-45.htm">Deuteronomy 28:45</a></span><br />All these curses will come upon you. They will pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, since you did not obey the LORD your God and keep the commandments and statutes He gave you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/31-16.htm">Deuteronomy 31:16-17</a></span><br />And the LORD said to Moses, “You will soon rest with your fathers, and these people will rise up and prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will forsake Me and break the covenant I have made with them. / On that day My anger will burn against them, and I will abandon them and hide My face from them, so that they will be consumed, and many troubles and afflictions will befall them. On that day they will say, ‘Have not these disasters come upon us because our God is no longer with us?’<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/11-10.htm">Jeremiah 11:10-11</a></span><br />They have returned to the sins of their forefathers who refused to obey My words. They have followed other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken the covenant I made with their fathers. / Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘I am about to bring upon them a disaster that they cannot escape. They will cry out to Me, but I will not listen to them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/7-23.htm">Jeremiah 7:23-24</a></span><br />but this is what I commanded them: Obey Me, and I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must walk in all the ways I have commanded you, so that it may go well with you. / Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but they followed the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts. They went backward and not forward.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/20-13.htm">Ezekiel 20:13</a></span><br />Yet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not follow My statutes and they rejected My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they utterly profaned My Sabbaths. Then I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and put an end to them in the wilderness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/20-21.htm">Ezekiel 20:21</a></span><br />But the children rebelled against Me. They did not walk in My statutes or carefully observe My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they profaned My Sabbaths. So I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and vent My anger against them in the wilderness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_kings/17-13.htm">2 Kings 17:13-14</a></span><br />Yet through all His prophets and seers, the LORD warned Israel and Judah, saying, “Turn from your wicked ways and keep My commandments and statutes, according to the entire Law that I commanded your fathers and delivered to you through My servants the prophets.” / But they would not listen, and they stiffened their necks like their fathers, who did not believe the LORD their God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/nehemiah/9-26.htm">Nehemiah 9:26-27</a></span><br />But they were disobedient and rebelled against You; they flung Your law behind their backs. They killed Your prophets, who had admonished them to return to You. They committed terrible blasphemies. / So You delivered them into the hands of enemies who oppressed them, and in their time of distress they cried out to You. From heaven You heard them, and in Your great compassion You gave them deliverers who saved them from the hands of their enemies.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/1-19.htm">Isaiah 1:19-20</a></span><br />If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the best of the land. / But if you resist and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword.” For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/30-9.htm">Isaiah 30:9-11</a></span><br />These are rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to obey the LORD’s instruction. / They say to the seers, “Stop seeing visions!” and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us the truth! Speak to us pleasant words; prophesy illusions. / Get out of the way; turn off the road. Rid us of the Holy One of Israel!”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hosea/4-6.htm">Hosea 4:6</a></span><br />My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as My priests. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/zechariah/7-11.htm">Zechariah 7:11-12</a></span><br />But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder; they stopped up their ears from hearing. / They made their hearts like flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the LORD of Hosts had sent by His Spirit through the earlier prophets. Therefore great anger came from the LORD of Hosts.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/23-37.htm">Matthew 23:37</a></span><br />O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/13-34.htm">Luke 13:34</a></span><br />O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">And if you shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that you will not do all my commandments, but that you break my covenant:</p><p class="hdg">despise</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/leviticus/26-43.htm">Leviticus 26:43</a></b></br> The 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.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/numbers/15-31.htm">Numbers 15:31</a></b></br> Because he hath despised the word of the LORD, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity <i>shall be</i> upon him.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/2_samuel/12-9.htm">2 Samuel 12:9,10</a></b></br> Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife <i>to be</i> thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon… </p><p class="hdg">soul</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/50-17.htm">Psalm 50:17</a></b></br> Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/proverbs/5-12.htm">Proverbs 5:12</a></b></br> And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/romans/8-7.htm">Romans 8:7</a></b></br> Because the carnal mind <i>is</i> enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.</p><p class="hdg">break</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/genesis/17-14.htm">Genesis 17:14</a></b></br> And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/exodus/19-5.htm">Exodus 19:5</a></b></br> Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth <i>is</i> mine:</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/exodus/24-7.htm">Exodus 24:7</a></b></br> And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/leviticus/26-11.htm">Abhor</a> <a href="/isaiah/49-7.htm">Abhors</a> <a href="/leviticus/14-45.htm">Break</a> <a href="/leviticus/13-57.htm">Breaking</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-14.htm">Carry</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-14.htm">Commandments</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-14.htm">Commands</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-9.htm">Covenant</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-18.htm">Decisions</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-3.htm">Decrees</a> <a href="/genesis/16-4.htm">Despise</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-35.htm">Fail</a> <a href="/exodus/20-5.htm">Hate</a> <a href="/leviticus/16-32.htm">Instead</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-18.htm">Judgments</a> <a href="/acts/26-14.htm">Kick</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-14.htm">Laws</a> <a href="/leviticus/24-23.htm">Orders</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-18.htm">Ordinances</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-11.htm">Reject</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-3.htm">Rules</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-11.htm">Soul</a> <a href="/leviticus/23-32.htm">Souls</a> <a href="/titus/1-10.htm">Spurn</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-3.htm">Statutes</a> <a href="/leviticus/4-2.htm">Violate</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/leviticus/26-30.htm">Abhor</a> <a href="/job/33-20.htm">Abhors</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-26.htm">Break</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-25.htm">Breaking</a> <a href="/numbers/1-50.htm">Carry</a> <a href="/numbers/15-22.htm">Commandments</a> <a href="/leviticus/27-34.htm">Commands</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-25.htm">Covenant</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-46.htm">Decisions</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-46.htm">Decrees</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-44.htm">Despise</a> <a href="/numbers/15-22.htm">Fail</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-17.htm">Hate</a> <a href="/numbers/3-12.htm">Instead</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-43.htm">Judgments</a> <a href="/1_samuel/2-29.htm">Kick</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-46.htm">Laws</a> <a href="/leviticus/27-34.htm">Orders</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-43.htm">Ordinances</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-44.htm">Reject</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-46.htm">Rules</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-16.htm">Soul</a> <a href="/numbers/16-38.htm">Souls</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-44.htm">Spurn</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-43.htm">Statutes</a> <a href="/numbers/30-2.htm">Violate</a><div class="vheading2">Leviticus 26</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/leviticus/26-1.htm">Of idolatry</a></span><br><span class="reftext">2. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/leviticus/26-2.htm">Reverence</a></span><br><span class="reftext">3. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/leviticus/26-3.htm">A blessing to those who keep the commandments</a></span><br><span class="reftext">14. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/leviticus/26-14.htm">A curse to those who break them</a></span><br><span class="reftext">40. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/leviticus/26-40.htm">God promises to remember those who repent</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading"><a href="/study/leviticus/26.htm">Berean Study Bible</a></div><b>reject My statutes</b><br />The Hebrew word for "reject" is "ma'as," which conveys a sense of despising or refusing. In the context of ancient Israel, statutes ("chuqqim") were divine decrees given by God to guide His people in holiness and righteousness. To reject these statutes was not merely a passive act of disobedience but an active refusal to acknowledge God's authority and wisdom. Historically, this rejection often led to Israel's downfall, as they turned to idolatry and the practices of surrounding nations, forsaking the unique identity God had given them.<p><b>despise My ordinances</b><br />The term "despise" comes from the Hebrew "ga'al," meaning to loathe or hold in contempt. Ordinances ("mishpatim") refer to God's judgments or legal decisions. These were meant to ensure justice and equity within the community. Despising God's ordinances indicates a heart hardened against divine justice and a preference for human judgment over God's perfect law. This attitude reflects a deeper spiritual rebellion, as seen throughout Israel's history when they ignored God's righteous standards.<p><b>fail to carry out all My commandments</b><br />The phrase "fail to carry out" translates from the Hebrew "lo ta'asu," meaning not to do or perform. Commandments ("mitzvot") are specific instructions from God. The emphasis on "all" underscores the comprehensive nature of God's expectations. Partial obedience is insufficient; God desires complete adherence to His will. This call to obedience is echoed throughout Scripture, emphasizing that true love for God is demonstrated through keeping His commandments (<a href="/john/14-15.htm">John 14:15</a>).<p><b>break My covenant</b><br />The Hebrew word for "break" is "parar," which means to violate or annul. A covenant ("berit") is a solemn agreement, often sealed with a promise or sacrifice. God's covenant with Israel was foundational, establishing them as His chosen people with specific blessings and responsibilities. Breaking this covenant was tantamount to severing the relationship with God, leading to dire consequences. This concept is central to the biblical narrative, highlighting the seriousness of covenant faithfulness and the grace available through repentance and restoration.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/leviticus/26.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(15) <span class= "bld">And if ye shall despise my statutes.</span>--From passive indifference to the Divine statutes mentioned in the preceding verse, their falling away is sure to follow. Hence what was at first mere listlessness now develops itself into a contemptuous education of God's ordinances.<p><span class= "bld">Or if your soul abhor my judgments.</span>--Better, <span class= "ital">and if your soul, </span>&c, as the picture of their Apostasy goes on developing itself.<p><span class= "bld">But that ye break my covenant.</span>--Better, <span class= "ital">that ye break, </span>&c, without the "but," which is not in the original, and obscures the sense of the passage, since it is the fact of their abhorrence of God's law which breaks the Divine covenant with them. (See <a href="/genesis/17-14.htm" title="And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.">Genesis 17:14</a>.) The sense is more correctly given by rendering this clause "Thus breaking my covenant," or "Thereby breaking my covenant."<p><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/leviticus/26-15.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">and if</span><br /><span class="heb">וְאִם־</span> <span class="translit">(wə·’im-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Conjunction<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_518.htm">Strong's 518: </a> </span><span class="str2">Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not</span><br /><br /><span class="word">you reject</span><br /><span class="heb">תִּמְאָ֔סוּ</span> <span class="translit">(tim·’ā·sū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3988.htm">Strong's 3988: </a> </span><span class="str2">To spurn, to disappear</span><br /><br /><span class="word">My statutes,</span><br /><span class="heb">בְּחֻקֹּתַ֣י</span> <span class="translit">(bə·ḥuq·qō·ṯay)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b | Noun - feminine plural construct | first person common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2708.htm">Strong's 2708: </a> </span><span class="str2">Something prescribed, an enactment, statute</span><br /><br /><span class="word">despise</span><br /><span class="heb">תִּגְעַ֣ל</span> <span class="translit">(tiḡ·‘al)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1602.htm">Strong's 1602: </a> </span><span class="str2">To detest, to reject</span><br /><br /><span class="word">My ordinances,</span><br /><span class="heb">מִשְׁפָּטַ֖י</span> <span class="translit">(miš·pā·ṭay)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4941.htm">Strong's 4941: </a> </span><span class="str2">A verdict, a sentence, formal decree, divine law, penalty, justice, privilege, style</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and neglect</span><br /><span class="heb">לְבִלְתִּ֤י</span> <span class="translit">(lə·ḇil·tî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-l<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1115.htm">Strong's 1115: </a> </span><span class="str2">A failure of, not, except, without, unless, besides, because not, until</span><br /><br /><span class="word">to carry out</span><br /><span class="heb">עֲשׂוֹת֙</span> <span class="translit">(‘ă·śō·wṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6213.htm">Strong's 6213: </a> </span><span class="str2">To do, make</span><br /><br /><span class="word">all</span><br /><span class="heb">כָּל־</span> <span class="translit">(kāl-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3605.htm">Strong's 3605: </a> </span><span class="str2">The whole, all, any, every</span><br /><br /><span class="word">My commandments,</span><br /><span class="heb">מִצְוֺתַ֔י</span> <span class="translit">(miṣ·wō·ṯay)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine plural construct | first person common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4687.htm">Strong's 4687: </a> </span><span class="str2">Commandment</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and so break</span><br /><span class="heb">לְהַפְרְכֶ֖ם</span> <span class="translit">(lə·hap̄·rə·ḵem)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-l | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct | second person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6565.htm">Strong's 6565: </a> </span><span class="str2">To break up, to violate, frustrate</span><br /><br /><span class="word">My covenant,</span><br /><span class="heb">בְּרִיתִֽי׃</span> <span class="translit">(bə·rî·ṯî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1285.htm">Strong's 1285: </a> </span><span class="str2">A covenant</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/leviticus/26-15.htm">Leviticus 26:15 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/leviticus/26-15.htm">Leviticus 26:15 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/leviticus/26-15.htm">Leviticus 26:15 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/leviticus/26-15.htm">Leviticus 26:15 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/leviticus/26-15.htm">Leviticus 26:15 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/leviticus/26-15.htm">Leviticus 26:15 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/leviticus/26-15.htm">Leviticus 26:15 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/leviticus/26-15.htm">Leviticus 26:15 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/leviticus/26-15.htm">Leviticus 26:15 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/leviticus/26-15.htm">Leviticus 26:15 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/leviticus/26-15.htm">OT Law: Leviticus 26:15 And if you shall reject my statutes (Le Lv Lev.) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/leviticus/26-14.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Leviticus 26:14"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Leviticus 26:14" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/leviticus/26-16.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Leviticus 26:16"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Leviticus 26:16" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>