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Leviticus 26.

IF-THEN declarations from the LORD to Israel, for blessing and cursing.

IF you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them, THEN …

• I will give you rain in their season
• the land shall yield its increase
• the trees, grain, and grapes shall yield their fruit
• you shall eat bread to the full
• you shall dwell in the land securely
• I will give peace in the land
• I will remove harmful beasts
• the sword shall not go through your land
• your enemies will flee from you
• I will make YOU fruitful and multiply you
• I will make my dwelling place among you
• I will walk among you and be your God. I am the LORD your God.

BUT IF you will not listen to me and not do my commandments, and if your soul abhors my rules and you break my covenant, THEN….

• I will visit you with panic, with wasting disease and fever that consumes the eyes and makes the heart ache
• you shall sow seed in vain for your enemies will eat it
• those who hate you will rule over you and pursue you
• I will discipline you sevenfold for your sin
• I will break the pride of your power
• I will make the heavens like iron and the earth like bronze
• your land will not yield its increase nor the trees their fruit
• I will let lose wild beasts against you that will bereave you of your children and livestock
• I will bring the sword on you and execute vengeance and send pestilence
• I will break your supply of bread and you will eat the flesh of your children
• I will destroy your high places and altars and cast YOUR dead bodies on the dead bodies of your idols
• I will abhor you.
• I will lay your cities waste and devastate the land
• I will scatter you among the nations

“Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate, while you are in your enemies’ hand; then the land shall rest, and enjoy its Sabbaths. It will have the rest that it did not have on your Sabbaths when you were dwelling in it.”

BUT IF they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers in the treachery that they committed against me, and also in walking contrary to me…. AND IF their uncircumcised heart is humbled and they make amends for their iniquity, THEN… 

• I will remember my covenant with Jacob, Isaac, and Abraham
• I will remember the land
• When they are in the land of the enemies … I will not spurn them 
• I will not abhor them so as to destroy them utterly and break my covenant with them
• I will for their sake remember the covenant with their forefathers.

Leviticus 27 (the last chapter)

Here are lists of how to value “special vow” offerings and also tithes pledged or given to the LORD (people of different ages for service, and animals and land for support of the Levites.)

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Tomorrow we begin Numbers. (You mathematicians will love this book!)