Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
or if ye shall despise mine ordinances, either if your souls refuse my laws, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but shall break mine covenant:
New American Standard Bible
if, instead, you
King James Version
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:
Holman Bible
if you reject My statutes and despise My ordinances, and do not observe all My commands—and break My covenant,
International Standard Version
and if you refuse my statutes, loathe my ordinances, and fail to carry out all of my commands, thereby breaching my covenant,
A Conservative Version
and if ye shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhors my ordinances, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant,
American Standard Version
and if ye shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhor mine ordinances, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant;
Amplified
if, instead, you reject My statutes, and if your soul rejects My ordinances, so that you will not [obediently] do all My commandments, and in this way break My covenant,
Bible in Basic English
And if you go against my rules and if you have hate in your souls for my decisions and you do not do all my orders, but go against my agreement;
Darby Translation
and if ye shall despise my statutes, and if your soul shall abhor mine ordinances, so that ye do not all my commandments, that ye break my covenant,
Julia Smith Translation
And if ye shall reject my laws. and if your soul shall abhor my judgments so as not to do all my commands, to your breaking my covenant:
King James 2000
And if you shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhors my judgments, so that you will not do all my commandments, but that you break my covenant:
Lexham Expanded Bible
and if you reject my statutes and if your inner self abhors my regulations, to not carry out all my commands [by] your breaking my covenant,
Modern King James verseion
and if you shall despise My statutes, or if your soul hates My judgments, so that you will not do all My commandments, so that you break My covenant;
NET Bible
if you reject my statutes and abhor my regulations so that you do not keep all my commandments and you break my covenant --
New Heart English Bible
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;
The Emphasized Bible
And if, my statutes, ye refuse, And, my regulations, your souls shall abhor, - So that ye will not do all my commandments, But shall break my covenant
Webster
And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul shall abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:
World English Bible
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;
Youngs Literal Translation
and if at My statutes ye kick, and if My judgments your soul loathe, so as not to do all My commands -- to your breaking My covenant --
Themes
Chastisement » Who the lord chastens
Desolation » Why desolation comes
Disease » Sent as a judgment » Sometimes sent as a judgment for sin
Disobedience to God » Denunciations against
Judgments » Are sent, as punishment for » Disobedience to God
Judgments » Denounced against disobedience
Pestilence » Who the lord sends pestilence upon
Protection » Withdrawn from the » Disobedient
Punishment » Design of » To secure obedience
Rebellion against God » Punishment for
Satisfaction » Who shall not be satisfied
Sickness » Sometimes sent as a judgment for sin
Sickness » Often sent as a punishment of sin
Interlinear
Ma'ac
Nephesh
Mishpat
References
Watsons
Word Count of 20 Translations in Leviticus 26:15
Verse Info
Context Readings
Punishment For Disobedience
14 "'But and if ye will not hearken unto me, nor will do all these my commandments, 15 or if ye shall despise mine ordinances, either if your souls refuse my laws, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but shall break mine covenant: 16 then I will do this again unto you: I will visit you with vexations, swelling, and fevers, that shall make your eyes dazzle; and with sorrows of heart. And ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
Cross References
2 Kings 17:15
And they refused his ordinances and his covenant that he had made with their fathers, and the witness which he had witnessed to them and followed vanity and became vain, like to the heathen that were round about them, of which the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.
Genesis 17:14
If there be any uncircumcised manchild, that hath not the foreskin of his flesh cut off, his soul shall perish from his people: because he hath broken my covenant."
Exodus 19:5
Now therefore if ye will hear my voice and keep mine covenant: ye shall be mine own above all nations, for all the earth is mine.
Exodus 24:7
And he took the book of the covenant and read it in the audience of the people. And they said, "All that the LORD hath said, we will do and hear."
Leviticus 26:43
For the land shall be left of them and shall have pleasure in her Sabbaths, while she lieth waste without them, and they shall make an atonement for their misdeeds, because they despised my laws and their souls refused mine ordinances.
Numbers 15:31
because he hath despised the word of the LORD and hath broken his commandments, that soul therefore shall perish and his sin shall be upon him.'"
Deuteronomy 31:16
And the LORD said unto Moses, "Behold, thou must sleep with thy fathers, and this people will go a whoring after strange gods of the land whither they go and will forsake me and break the covenant which I have made with them.
2 Samuel 12:9-10
Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do wickedness in his sight? Thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword and hast taken his wife to thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
2 Chronicles 36:16
But they mocked the messengers of God and despised their words and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD so arose against his people that it was past remedy.
Psalm 50:17
whereas thou hatest to be reformed, and hast cast my words behind thee?
Proverbs 1:7
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom. But fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Proverbs 1:30
but abhorred my counsel, and despised my correction.
Proverbs 5:12
and then say, "Alas, why hated I nurture? Why did my heart despise correction?
Isaiah 24:5
For the earth is corrupt of her indwellers. For why? They have offended the law, changed the ordinances, and broken the everlasting covenant.
Jeremiah 6:19
Hear thou earth also: behold, I will cause a plague come upon this people, even the fruit of their own imaginations. For they have not been obedient unto my words and to my law, but abhorred them.
Jeremiah 11:10
They have turned themselves to the blasphemies of their forefathers, which had no lust to hear my word. Even likewise have these also followed strange gods, and worshiped them. The houses of Israel and Judah have broken my covenant, which I made with their fathers.
Jeremiah 31:32
not after the covenant that I made with their fathers, when I took them by the hand, and led them out of the land of Egypt: which covenant they brake, wherefore I punished them sore, sayeth the LORD:
Ezekiel 16:59
For thus sayeth the LORD God: I should, by right, deal with thee, as thou hast done. Thou hast despised the oath, and broken the covenant.
Zechariah 7:11-13
Nevertheless, they would not take heed, but turned their backs and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.
Acts 13:41
'Behold ye despisers, and wonder, and perish ye: for I do a work in your days, which ye shall not believe, if a man would declare it you.'"
Romans 8:7
because that the fleshly mind is enmity against God: For it is not obedient to the law of God, neither can be.
1 Thessalonians 4:8
He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, which hath sent his holy spirit among you.
Hebrews 8:9
not like the testament that I made with their fathers at that time, when I took them by the hands, to lead them out of the land of Egypt; for they continued not in my testament, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.