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MARCH 1
9 ‘For I will look on you favorably and
March 1 make you fruitful, multiply you and
confirm My covenant with you.
10 You shall eat the old harvest, and clear
out the old because of the new.
Leviticus 26:1–27:34
11 I will set My tabernacle among you, and
26 ‘You shall not make idols for your- 12 I will walk among you and be your God,
My soul shall not abhor you.
selves;
neither a carved image nor a sacred pillar and you shall be My people.
shall you rear up for yourselves; 13 I am the LORD your God, who brought
nor shall you set up an engraved stone you out of the land of Egypt, that you
in your land, to bow down to it; should not be their slaves;
for I am the LORD your God. I have broken the bands of your yoke
You shall keep My Sabbaths and reverence and made you walk upright.
2
My sanctuary: 14
I am the LORD. ‘But if you do not obey Me, and do not
observe all these commandments,
3 ‘If you walk in My statutes and keep My 15 and if you despise My statutes, or if
commandments, and perform them, your soul abhors My judgments, so
4 then I will give you rain in its season, that you do not perform all My
the land shall yield its produce, and commandments, but break My
the trees of the field shall yield their covenant,
fruit. 16 I also will do this to you:
5 Your threshing shall last till the time of I will even appoint terror over you,
vintage, and the vintage shall last wasting disease and fever which
till the time of sowing; shall consume the eyes and cause
you shall eat your bread to the full, and sorrow of heart.
dwell in your land safely. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for
6 I will give peace in the land, and you your enemies shall eat it.
shall lie down, and none will make 17 I will set My face against you, and you
you afraid; shall be defeated by your enemies.
I will rid the land of evil beasts, Those who hate you shall reign over
and the sword will not go through your you, and you shall flee when no one
land. pursues you.
7 You will chase your enemies, and they 18 ‘And after all this, if you do not obey Me,
shall fall by the sword before you.
8 Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a then I will punish you seven times
more for your sins.
hundred of you shall put ten 19 I will break the pride of your power;
thousand to flight; I will make your heavens like iron and
your enemies shall fall by the sword your earth like bronze.
before you. 20 And your strength shall be spent in
vain;
for your land shall not yield its produce,
nor shall the trees of the land yield
their fruit.
26:9 make you fruitful, multiply you and 21 ‘Then, if you walk contrary to Me, and
confirm My covenant with you. What God are not willing to obey Me, I will
commanded at creation and repeated after the bring on you seven times more
Flood was contained in the covenant promise plagues, according to your sins.
of seed (Gen. 12:1–3), which He will fulfill to 22
the nation of Israel as promised to Abraham I will also send wild beasts among you,
(Gen. 15:5,6). which shall rob you of your children,
destroy your livestock, and make you
few in number;
26:12 your God…My people. The promise of
an intimate covenant relationship with the and your highways shall be desolate.
God of the universe is given (see 2 Cor. 6:16). 23 ‘And if by these things you are not
reformed by Me, but walk contrary
to Me,

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