Levítico 26

1 "‘You shall make for yourselves no idols, and you shall not raise up a carved image or a pillar, and you shall not place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it; for I am Yahweh your God.

2 "‘You shall keep my Sabbaths, and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am Yahweh.

3 "‘If you walk in my statutes and keep my commandments, and do them, 4 then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. 5 Your threshing shall continue until the vintage, and the vintage shall continue until the sowing time. You shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.

6 "‘I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and no one will make you afraid. I will remove evil animals out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land. 7 You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword. 8 Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand; and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.

9 "‘I will have respect for you, make you fruitful, multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you. 10 You shall eat old supplies long kept, and you shall move out the old because of the new. 11 I will set my tent among you, and my soul won’t abhor you. 12 I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you will be my people. 13 I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves. I have broken the bars of your yoke, and made you walk upright.

14 "‘But if you will not listen to me, and will not do all these commandments, 15 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, 16 I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away. You will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it. 17 I will set my face against you, and you will be struck before your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you; and you will flee when no one pursues you.

18 "‘If you in spite of these things will not listen to me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins. 19 I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron, and your soil like bronze. 20 Your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won’t yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruit.

21 "‘If you walk contrary to me, and won’t listen to me, then I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to your sins. 22 I will send the wild animals among you, which will rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number. Your roads will become desolate.

23 "‘If by these things you won’t be turned back to me, but will walk contrary to me, 24 then I will also walk contrary to you; and I will strike you, even I, seven times for your sins. 25 I will bring a sword upon you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant. You will be gathered together within your cities, and I will send the pestilence among you. You will be delivered into the hand of the enemy. 26 When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight. You shall eat, and not be satisfied.

27 "‘If you in spite of this won’t listen to me, but walk contrary to me, 28 then I will walk contrary to you in wrath. I will also chastise you seven times for your sins. 29 You will eat the flesh of your sons, and you will eat the flesh of your daughters. 30 I will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you. 31 I will lay your cities waste, and will bring your sanctuaries to desolation. I will not take delight in the sweet fragrance of your offerings. 32 I will bring the land into desolation, and your enemies who dwell in it will be astonished at it. 33 I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you. Your land will be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste. 34 Then the land will enjoy its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies’ land. Even then the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths. 35 As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it didn’t have in your Sabbaths when you lived on it.

36 "‘As for those of you who are left, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword. They will fall when no one pursues. 37 They will stumble over one another, as it were before the sword, when no one pursues. You will have no power to stand before your enemies. 38 You will perish among the nations. The land of your enemies will eat you up. 39 Those of you who are left will pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers they shall pine away with them.

40 "‘If they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me; and also that because they walked contrary to me, 41 I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity, 42 then I will remember my covenant with Jacob, my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham; and I will remember the land. 43 The land also will be left by them, and will enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them; and they will accept the punishment of their iniquity because they rejected my ordinances, and their soul abhorred my statutes. 44 Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly and to break my covenant with them; for I am Yahweh their God. 45 But I will for their sake remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. I am Yahweh.’"

46 These are the statutes, ordinances, and laws, which Yahweh made between him and the children of Israel in Mount Sinai by Moses.

Te Manaakitanga mō te Whakarongo

1 "Kei hanga koutou he whakapakoko mā koutou, kei whakaara rānei he whakapakoko, he mea whaowhao, he pou rānei, kaua anō hoki he kōhatu āhua ki tō koutou whenua hei koropikotanga atu; ko Ihowā hoki ahau, ko tō koutou Atua. 2 Kia mau ki āku hāpati, kia hopohopo anō ki tōku wāhi tapu. Ko Ihowā ahau.

3 "Ki te haere koutou i runga i āku tikanga, ā, ka pupuri i āku whakahau, ka mahi hoki. 4 Nā, ka hoatu e ahau he ua ki a koutou i tōna pō anō, ā, ka tukua ōna hua e te whenua, ā, ka hua ngā hua o ngā rākau o te pārae. 5 Ā, ka tutuki atu tā koutou patunga wīti ki te whakinga wāina, me te whakinga wāina ki te wā ruinga; ā, ka kai koutou i tā koutou taro, ka mākona, ka ū anō te noho ki tō koutou whenua.

6 "Ā, ka tukua iho e ahau te āta noho ki te whenua, ā, ka takoto iho koutou, kāhore anō hoki he tangata hei mea i a koutou kia wehi. Ka whakakāhoretia atu anō hoki e ahau ngā kīrehe kino i te whenua, e kore anō hoki te hoari e tika nā waenga o tō koutou whenua. 7 Ā, ka whāia e koutou ō koutou hoariri, ā, ka hinga rātou i te hoari ki tō koutou aroaro. 8 Ka whāia hoki te rau kotahi e te tokorima o koutou, ā, ka whati ngā mano kotahi tekau i te rau kotahi o koutou; nā, ka hinga ō koutou hoariri i te hoari ki tō koutou aroaro.

9 "Ka whai whakaaro hoki ahau ki a koutou, ā, ka meinga koutou kia hua, kia tini; ā, ka pūmau tāku kawenata ki a koutou. 10 Ā, ka kai koutou i te kai kua roa e pakoko ana, ā, ka whakaputa i te pakoko ki waho mō te hua hou. 11 Ā, ka whakatūria e ahau tāku tapenākara ki waenganui i a koutou, e kore anō tōku wairua e whakarihariha ki a koutou. 12 Ka hāereere anō hoki ahau i roto i a koutou, ā, hei Atua ahau mō koutou, ko koutou hoki hei iwi māku. 13 Ko Ihowā ahau, ko tō koutou Atua i kawe mai nei i a koutou i te whenua o Īhipa, kei waiho hei pononga mā rātou; motu pū hoki i ahau ngā here o tō koutou ioka, ā, meinga ana koutou kia haere tū."

Te Whiunga mō te Whakapono Kore

14 "Tēnā ko tēnei, ka kore koutou e whakarongo ki ahau, ka kore e mahi i ēnei whakahau katoa; 15 ā, ka whakahāwea ki āku tikanga, ka whakarihariha rānei ō koutou wairua ki āku whakaritenga, ā, kāhore e mahia āku whakahau katoa, engari ka whakatakā tāku kawenata. 16 Nā, ka meinga anō hoki tēnei e ahau ki a koutou; ka meinga e ahau hei rangatira mō koutou te pāwera, te kohi, me te kirikā, hei ngau i ngā kanohi, hei whakapōuri i te ngākau. Ā, ka maumau tā koutou rui i ā koutou purapura; nō te mea ka kainga e ō koutou hoariri. 17 Ā, ka ū atu tōku mata ki a koutou, ā, ka patua koutou i te aroaro o ō koutou hoariri, ka meinga hei kīngi mō koutou te hunga e kino ana ki a koutou; ā, ka rere koutou, ahakoa kāhore he kaiwhai.

18 "Ā, ki te kāhore tonu koutou e rongo ki ahau i ēnei meatanga, nā, e whitu atu āku pakinga i a koutou mō ō koutou hara. 19 Ka whati anō i ahau te whakapehapeha o tō koutou kaha; ā, ka meinga tō koutou rangi kia whakarino, tō koutou whenua hoki kia whakaparāhi. 20 Ā, ka poto kau ō koutou uaua; nō te mea e kore tō koutou whenua e tuku ake i ōna hua, e kore anō hoki e hua ngā hua o ngā rākau o te whenua.

21 "Ā, ki te anga kē atu tā koutou haere i ahau, ki te kore e rongo ki ahau; nā, ka hoatu e ahau kia whitu atu anō ngā whiu ki a koutou, kia rite ki ō koutou hara. 22 Ka tukua anō e ahau te kīrehe koraha ki a koutou, hei kāwhaki i ā koutou tama, hei whakamōtī i ā koutou kararehe, hei mea i a koutou kia torutoru; ā, ka ururuatia ō koutou huanui.

23 "Ā, ki te kāhore koutou e hoki ake ki te pai i ēnei meatanga āku, ā, ka anga kē atu koutou i ahau; 24 heoi, ka anga kē atu hoki ahau i a koutou; ā, ka whiua koutou e ahau, e ahau anō nei, kia whitu atu anō, mō ō koutou hara. 25 Ā, ka kawea e ahau he hoari ki a koutou, hei tohe i te utu mō tāku kawenata. Ā, ka huihui koutou ki roto ki ō koutou pā; ā, ka tukua e ahau te mate urutā ki a koutou; ā, ka hoatu koutou ki te ringa o te hoariri. 26 Ki te whati i ahau tā koutou tokotoko, arā te taro, ka tunua tā koutou taro e ngā wāhine kotahi tekau ki te oumu kotahi, ā, ka whakahokia e rātou tā koutou taro, he mea pāuna; ā, ka kai koutou, ā, e kore e mākona.

27 "Ā, ki te kāhore koutou e rongo ki ahau i ēnei meatanga katoa, ā, ka anga kē atu anō koutou i ahau. 28 Kātahi ahau ka tahuri kino atu i a koutou; ā, māku nei anō koutou e papaki, e whitu atu pakinga, mō ō koutou hara. 29 Ā, e kai koutou i te kikokiko o ā koutou tama, ka kainga hoki e koutou te kikokiko o ā koutou tamāhine. 30 Ā, ka ngaro i ahau ā koutou wāhi teitei, ka tapahia anō hoki ā koutou whakapakoko, ka makā ō koutou tinana ki runga ki ngā tinana o ā koutou whakapakoko; ā, ka whakarihariha anō hoki tōku wairua ki a koutou. 31 Ka ururua anō i ahau ō koutou pā, ka hoki ō koutou wāhi tapu, e kore anō hoki ahau e hongi ki ā koutou kakara reka. 32 Ā, ka tūhea i ahau te whenua; e mīharotia ai e ō koutou hoariri e noho ana i reira. 33 Ā, ka whakamararatia koutou ki roto ki ngā tauiwi, ka maunu hoki i ahau te hoari hei whai i a koutou. Ā, ka tūheatia tō koutou whenua, ka ururuatia hoki ō koutou pā.

34 "Ko reira koa ai te whenua i ōna hāpati, i ngā rā katoa ōna e takoto tūhea ana, i a koutou hoki i te whenua o ō koutou hoariri; ko reira hoki te whenua okioki ai, koa ai hoki i ōna hāpati. 35 Ka okioki i ngā rā katoa o tōna tūheatanga; ko te okioki kīhai i a ia i ō koutou hāpati, i a koutou e noho ana i reira.

36 "Tēnā ko ngā mōrehu o koutou ka ungā e ahau he whakangohe ki ō rātou ngākau i ngā whenua o ō rātou hoariri; ā, ka whati rātou i te ngaehe rau rākau e āia ana; ā, ka rere rātou, ānō e rere ana i te hoari; ā, ka hinga ahakoa kāhore he kaiwhai. 37 Ā, ka tutetute rātou tētahi ki tētahi, ānō e whāia ana e te hoari, i te mea kāhore he kaiwhai. Ā, ka kore he tūranga ake mō koutou ki te aroaro o ō koutou hoariri. 38 Ā, ka ngaro koutou i ngā tauiwi, ka pau anō i te whenua o ō koutou hoariri. 39 Ā, ko ngā toenga o koutou, ka memeha haere i roto i tō rātou kino i ngā whenua o ō koutou hoariri; ka memeha haere rātou i roto i ngā kino ō rātou ko ō rātou mātua.

40 "Ā, ka whākina e rātou tō rātou kino, me te kino o ō rātou mātua, i tō rātou haranga i hara ai ki ahau, me tō rātou haerenga kētanga atu i tāku – 41 i anga kē atu ai ahau i a rātou, i kawea ai rātou ki te whenua o ō rātou hoariri; ki te iro i reira ō rātou ngākau kokotikore, ā, ka whakaae ki te pakinga mō tō rātou kino. 42 Kātahi ahau ka mahara ki tāku kawenata ki a Hākopa; ki tāku kawenata hoki ki a Īhaka; ka mahara anō ki tāku kawenata ki a Āperahama; ka mahara ki te whenua. 43 Ka mahue anō te whenua i a rātou, ā, ka koa ki ōna hāpati, i a ia e takoto tūhea ana, i te mea kāhore nei rātou: me rātou hoki, ka whakaae ki te whiu mō tō rātou kino. Mō tēnei hoki, āe rā mō tēnei, i whakahāwea rātou ki āku whakaritenga, ā, i whakarihariha tō rātou wairua ki āku tikanga.

44 "Nā, ahakoa he pēnā, e kore ahau e whakakāhore ki a rātou, i a rātou i te whenua o ō rātou hoariri, e kore anō e whakarihariha ki a rātou, e huna rawa i a rātou, e whakataka rānei i tāku kawenata ki a rātou. Ko Ihowā hoki ahau, ko tō rātou Atua. 45 Engari, he mea mō rātou, ka mahara ahau ki te kawenata o ō rātou tūpuna, i kawea mai nei e ahau i te whenua o Īhipa i te tirohanga a ngā tauiwi, ki ahau hei Atua mō rātou. Ko ahau a Ihowā."

46 Ko ngā tikanga ēnei, me ngā whakaritenga, me ngā ture i whakatakotoria e Ihowā ki waenganui ōna, o ngā tama a Īharaira, ki Maunga Hinai, he mea nā te ringa o Mohi.