Leviticus 26:4-13

26:4 I will give you your rains in their time so that ¹  the land will give its yield and the trees of the field will produce their fruit. ²  26:5 Threshing season will extend for you until the season for harvesting grapes, ³  and the season for harvesting grapes will extend until sowing season, so ⁴  you will eat your bread until you are satisfied, ⁵  and you will live securely in your land. 26:6 I will grant peace in the land so that ⁶  you will lie down to sleep without anyone terrifying you. ⁷  I will remove harmful animals ⁸  from the land, and no sword of war ⁹  will pass through your land. 26:7 You will pursue your enemies and they will fall before you by the sword. ¹⁰  26:8 Five of you will pursue a hundred, and a hundred of you will pursue ten thousand, and your enemies will fall before you by the sword. 26:9 I will turn to you, make you fruitful, multiply you, and maintain ¹¹  my covenant with you. 26:10 You will still be eating stored produce from the previous year ¹²  and will have to clean out what is stored from the previous year to make room for new. ¹³ 

26:11 “‘I will put my tabernacle ¹⁴  in your midst and I will not abhor you. ¹⁵  26:12 I will walk among you, and I will be your God and you will be my people. 26:13 I am the Lord your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt, from being their slaves, ¹⁶  and I broke the bars of your yoke and caused you to walk upright. ¹⁷ 

¹ tn Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative force here.

² tn Heb “the tree of the field will give its fruit.” As a collective singular this has been translated as plural.

³ tn Heb “will reach for you the vintage season.”

⁴ tn Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative force here.

⁵ tn Heb “to satisfaction”; KJV, ASV, NASB “to the full.”

⁶ tn Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative force here.

⁷ tn Heb “and there will be no one who terrifies.” The words “to sleep” have been supplied in the translation for clarity.

⁸ tn Heb “harmful animal,” singular, but taken here as a collective plural (so almost all English versions).

⁹ tn Heb “no sword”; the words “of war” are supplied in the translation to indicate what the metaphor of the sword represents.

¹⁰ tn Heb “to the sword.”

¹¹ tn Heb “cause to arise,” but probably used here for the Lord’s intention of confirming or maintaining the covenant commitment made at Sinai. Cf. KJV “establish”; NASB “will confirm”; NAB “carry out”; NIV “will keep.”

¹² tn Heb “old [produce] growing old.”

¹³ tn Heb “and old from the presence of new you will bring out.”

¹⁴ tn LXX codexes Vaticanus and Alexandrinus have “my covenant” rather than “my tabernacle.” Cf. NAB, NASB, NRSV “my dwelling.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “and my soul [נֶפֶשׁ, nefesh] will not abhor you.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “from being to them slaves.”

¹⁷ tn In other words, to walk as free people and not as slaves. Cf. NIV “with (+ your CEV, NLT) heads held high”; NCV “proudly.”