--- title: Joseph Smith Translation (1867 edition) description: Leviticus from the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), 1867 edition. authors: - Smith, Joseph, Jr. collections: - joseph-smith tags: - translation published: "1867" publisher: RLDS Publication Board publisher_place: Plano, Illinois publisher_note: "The title page reads: Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Joseph Smith, I. L. Rogers, E. Robinson, Publishing Committee; 1867." edition: First edition (Plano, 1867) language: en type: book chapter: 26 verse_count: 46 reference: "Joseph Smith Jr., *Joseph Smith Translation*, first edition (Plano, IL: RLDS Publication Board, 1867), Leviticus, chap. 26, https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft." source: url: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft identifier: holyscripturestr00smituoft scan: University of Toronto / Trinity College Library copy, Internet Archive transcription: "OCR text of the 1867 scans (Toronto copy and a second copy, holyscriptures00smit), reconciled word by word; Romans was also checked against the page images. Method, per-chapter validation log and known limits: docs/jst-1867-import.md." rights: status: public-domain basis: 1867 US publication source: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft publication_year: 1867 --- # Leviticus 26 *Of idolatry Religiousness Blessings to the obedient.* **1** Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it; for I am the Lord your God. **2** Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary; I am the Lord. **3** If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them; **4** Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. **5** And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing-time; and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely. **6** And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid; and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land. **7** And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword. **8** And five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight; and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword. **9** For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you. **10** And ye shall eat old store and bring forth the old because of the new. **11** And I will set my tabernacle among you; and my soul shall abhor you; **12** And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people **13** I am the Lord your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bond-men; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and make you go upright. **14** But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments; **15** And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant; **16** I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart; and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. **17** And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies; they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you. **18** And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins. **19** And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass; **20** And your strength shall be spent in vain; for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits. **21** And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins. **22** I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your highways shall be desolate. **23** And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me; **24** Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins. **25** And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant; and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy. **26** And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight; and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied. **27** And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me; **28** Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins. **29** And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat. **30** And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcasses upon the carcasses of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you. **31** And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours. **32** And I will bring the land into desolation; and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it. **33** And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you; and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste. **34** Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies' land: even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths. **35** As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it. **36** And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth. **37** And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth; and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies. **38** And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up. **39** And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them. **40** If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me; **41** And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity; **42** Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land. **43** 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. **44** And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them u-tterly, and to break my covenant with them; for I am the Lord their God. **45** But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God; I am the Lord. **46** These are the statutes and judgments and laws, which the Lord made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.