Leviticus 26:9

Bishop's Bible

For I wyll haue respect vnto you, and make you increase, and multiplie you, and set vp my couenaunt with you.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
I will have respect to you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you.

King James Version
For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.

Lexham English Bible
And I will turn to you, and I will make you fruitful, and I will make you numerous; and I will keep my covenant with you.

New Century Version
"‘Then I will show kindness to you and let you have many children; I will keep my agreement with you.

New English Translation
I will turn to you, make you fruitful, multiply you, and maintain my covenant with you.

Amplified Bible
'For I will turn toward you [with favor and regard] and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will establish and confirm My covenant with you.

New American Standard Bible
'So I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will confirm My covenant with you.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For I will haue respect vnto you, and make you encrease, and multiplie you, and establish my couenant with you.

Legacy Standard Bible
So I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will confirm My covenant with you.

Contemporary English Version
I will treat you with such kindness that your nation will grow strong, and I will also keep my promises to you.

Complete Jewish Bible
"‘I will turn toward you, make you productive, increase your numbers and uphold my covenant with you.

Darby Translation
And I will turn my face towards you and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.

Easy-to-Read Version
"Then I will turn to you. I will let you have many children. I will keep my agreement with you.

English Standard Version
I will turn to you and make you fruitful and multiply you and will confirm my covenant with you.

George Lamsa Translation
For I will return to you and make you great and multiply you and establish my covenant with you.

Good News Translation
I will bless you and give you many children; I will keep my part of the covenant that I made with you.

Christian Standard Bible®
“I will turn to you, make you fruitful and multiply you, and confirm my covenant with you.

Literal Translation
And I shall turn My face toward you and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and shall establish My covenant with you.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And I wyl turne me vnto you, and wyl cause you to growe and increase, and wyl set vp my couenanut with you.

American Standard Version
And I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you.

Bible in Basic English
And I will have pleasure in you and make you fertile and greater in number; and I will keep my agreement with you.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you; and will establish My covenant with you.

King James Version (1611)
For I wil haue respect vnto you, and make you fruitfull, and multiply you, & establish my couenant with you.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And I will look upon you, and increase you, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.

English Revised Version
And I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you; and will establish my covenant with you.

Berean Standard Bible
I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will fulfill My covenant with you.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Y schal biholde you, and Y schal make you to encreesse; ye schulen be multiplied; and Y schal make stedfast my couenaunt with you;

Young's Literal Translation
`And I have turned unto you, and have made you fruitful, and have multiplied you, and have established My covenant with you;

Update Bible Version
And I will have respect to you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you.

Webster's Bible Translation
For I will have respect to you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.

World English Bible
I will have respect to you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you.

New King James Version
"For I will look on you favorably and make you fruitful, multiply you and confirm My covenant with you.

New Living Translation
"I will look favorably upon you, making you fertile and multiplying your people. And I will fulfill my covenant with you.

New Life Bible
I will care for you and give you many children. I will keep My agreement with you.

New Revised Standard
I will look with favor upon you and make you fruitful and multiply you; and I will maintain my covenant with you.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And I will turn unto you, And make you fruitful, - And multiply you, And will establish my covenant with you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I will look on you, and make you increase: you shall be multiplied, and I will establish my covenant with you.

Revised Standard Version
And I will have regard for you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and will confirm my covenant with you.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
'So I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will confirm My covenant with you.

Contextual Overview

¹ Ye shall make you no idols nor graue image, neither reare you vp any piller, neither shall ye set vp any image of stone in your lande to bowe downe vnto it: for I am the Lorde your God. ² Ye shall kepe my Sabbathes, and reuerence my sanctuarie: for I am the Lorde. ³ If ye walke in my ordinaunces, and kepe my commaundementes, & do the: ⁴ I wyll sende you rayne in due season, and the lande shall yeelde her increase, and the trees of the fielde shall geue their fruite: ⁵ And your thresshyng shal reache vnto the vintage, & the vintage shall reache vnto sowyng tyme: and ye shall eate your bread in plenteousnesse, and dwell in your lande safely. ⁶ And I wyll sende peace in the lande, and ye shall lye downe without any man to make you afrayde: And I wyll ridde euyll beastes out of the lande, and there shall no sworde go throughout your lande. ⁷ And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shal fall before you vpon ye sworde. ⁸ And fiue of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousande to flight: & your enemies shall fall before you vpon the sworde. ⁹ For I wyll haue respect vnto you, and make you increase, and multiplie you, and set vp my couenaunt with you. ¹⁰ And ye shall eate olde store, and cary out olde, because of the newe.

Bible Verse Review
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for I: Exodus 2:25, 2 Kings 13:23, Nehemiah 2:20, Psalms 89:3, Psalms 138:6, Psalms 138:7, Jeremiah 33:3, Hebrews 8:9

make you: Genesis 17:6, Genesis 17:7, Genesis 17:20, Genesis 26:4, Genesis 28:3, Genesis 28:14, Exodus 1:7, Deuteronomy 28:4, Deuteronomy 28:11, Nehemiah 9:23, Psalms 107:38

establish: Genesis 6:18, Genesis 17:7, Exodus 6:4, Isaiah 55:3, Ezekiel 16:62, Luke 1:72

Reciprocal: Genesis 1:22 - General Genesis 1:28 - General Deuteronomy 7:14 - male or Deuteronomy 30:9 - make thee Job 5:25 - thy seed

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For I will have respect unto you,.... Look at them with delight and pleasure, and with a careful eye on them, watch over them to do them good, and protect them from all evil; or turn himself to them from all others, having a particular regard for them and special care of them:

and make you fruitful and multiply you; increase their number, as he did in Egypt, even amidst all their afflictions; and much more might they expect this blessing in the land of Canaan, when settled there, which is the original blessing of mankind, see Genesis 1:28;

and establish my covenant with you; not the new covenant spoken of in

Jeremiah 31:31; as Jarchi and other Jewish writers l suggest; for that was not to take place but in future time, under the Gospel dispensation; but rather the covenant made with them at Sinai, though perhaps it chiefly respects the covenant made with their ancestors concerning multiplication of their seed as the stars of heaven and the sand of the sea, Genesis 15:5, since it follows upon the promise of an increase of them.

l Torat Cohenim, apud Yalkut, par. 1. fol. 196. 3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

As “the book of the covenant” Exodus 20:22-33 concludes with promises and warnings Exodus 23:20-33, so does this collection of laws contained in the Book of Leviticus. But the former passage relates to the conquest of the land of promise, this one to the subsequent history of the nation. The longer similar passage in Deuteronomy Deut. 27–30 is marked by broader and deeper promises and denunciations having immediate reference not only to outward consequences, but to the spiritual death incurred by transgressing the divine will.

Leviticus 26:4

Rain in due season - The periodical rains, on which the fertility of the holy land so much depends, are here spoken of. There are two wet seasons, called in Scripture the former and the latter rain Deuteronomy 11:14; Jeremiah 5:24; Joel 2:23; Hosea 6:3; James 5:7. The former or Autumn rain falls in heavy showers in November and December. In March the latter or Spring rain comes on, which is precarious in quantity and duration, and rarely lasts more than two days.

Leviticus 26:5

Compare the margin reference; Joel 2:19; Job 11:18.

Leviticus 26:8

Five of you shall chase - A proverbial mode of expression for superiority in warlike prowess Deuteronomy 32:30; Isaiah 30:17.

Leviticus 26:9

Establish my covenant - All material blessings were to be regarded in the light of seals of the “everlasting covenant.” Compare Genesis 17:4-8; Nehemiah 9:23.

Leviticus 26:10

Bring forth the old because of the new - Rather, clear away the old before the new; that is, in order to make room for the latter. Compare the margin reference.

Leviticus 26:16

The first warning for disobedience is disease. “Terror” (literally trembling) is rendered trouble in Psalms 78:33; Isaiah 65:23. It seems here to denote that terrible affliction, an anxious temperament, the mental state ever at war with Faith and Hope. This might well be placed at the head of the visitations on a backslider who had broken the covenant with his God. Compare Deuteronomy 32:25; Jeremiah 15:8; Proverbs 28:1; Job 24:17; Psalms 23:4.

Consumption, and the burning ague - Compare the margin reference. The first of the words in the original comes from a root signifying to waste away; the latter (better, fever), from one signifying to kindle a fire. Consumption is common in Egypt and some parts of Asia Minor, but it is more rare in Syria. Fevers of different kinds are the commonest of all diseases in Syria and all the neighboring countries. The opposite promise to the threat is given in Exodus 15:26; Exodus 23:25.

Leviticus 26:18

For all this - i. e. for all the afflictions in Leviticus 26:16-17.

Seven times - The sabbatical number is here proverbially used to remind the people of the covenant. Compare Genesis 4:15, Genesis 4:24; Psalms 119:164; Proverbs 24:16; Luke 17:4.

Leviticus 26:19, Leviticus 26:20

The second warning is utter sterility of the soil. Compare Deuteronomy 11:17; Deuteronomy 28:18; Ezekiel 33:28; Ezekiel 36:34-35.

Leviticus 26:21, Leviticus 26:22

The third warning is the multiplication of destructive animals, etc. Compare Deuteronomy 32:24; Ezekiel 5:17; Ezekiel 14:15; Judges 5:6-7; Isaiah 33:8.

Leviticus 26:23-26

The fourth warning. Yahweh now places Himself as it were in a hostile position toward His people who “will not be reformed” (rather, brought unto God: Jeremiah 2:30). He will avenge the outraged cause of His covenant, by the sword, pestilence, famine, and captivity.

Leviticus 26:26

Omit “and.” “To break the staff of bread,” was a proverbial expression for cutting off the supply of bread, the staff of life (Psalms 105:16; Ezekiel 4:16; Ezekiel 5:16; Ezekiel 14:13; compare Isaiah 3:1). The supply was to be so reduced that one oven would suffice for baking the bread maple by ten women for ten families, and when made it was to be dealt out in sparing rations by weight. See 2 Kings 6:25; Jeremiah 14:18; Lamentations 4:9; Ezekiel 5:12; Hosea 4:10; Micah 6:14; Haggai 1:6.

Leviticus 26:27-33

The fifth warning. For Leviticus 26:29 see 2 Kings 6:28-29; Jeremiah 19:8-9; Lamentations 2:20; Lamentations 4:10; Ezekiel 5:10, for Leviticus 26:30 see 2 Chronicles 34:3; Ezekiel 6:4; Jeremiah 14:19, for Leviticus 26:31 see 2 Kings 25:9; Psalms 74:6-7 : for Leviticus 26:32-33 see Deuteronomy 28:37; Psalms 44:11; Jeremiah 9:16; Jeremiah 18:16; Ezekiel 5:1-17; Jeremiah 4:7; Ezekiel 9:6; Ezekiel 12:15; Zechariah 7:14.

Leviticus 26:30

High places - There is no doubt that the word here denotes elevated spots dedicated to false worship (see Deuteronomy 12:2), and especially, it would seem, to that of Baal Numbers 22:41; Joshua 13:17. Such spots were, however, employed and approved for the worship of Yahweh, not only before the building of the temple, but afterward (Judges 6:25-26; Judges 13:16-23; 1 Samuel 7:10; 1 Samuel 16:5; 1 Kings 3:2; 1 Kings 18:30; 2 Kings 12:3; 1 Chronicles 21:26, etc.). The three altars built by Abraham at Shechem, between Bethel and Ai, and at Mamre, appear to have been on heights, and so was the temple.

The high places in the holy land may thus have been divided into those dedicated to the worship of Yahweh, and those which had been dedicated to idols. And it would seem as if there was a constant struggle going on. The high places polluted by idol worship were of course to be wholly condemned. They were probably resorted to only to gratify a degraded superstition. See Leviticus 19:31; Leviticus 20:2-5. The others might have been innocently used for prayer and religious teaching. But the temptation appears to have been too great for the temper of the people. They offered sacrifice and burnt incense on them; and hence, thorough reformers of the national religion, such as Hezekiah and Josiah, removed the high places altogether 2 Kings 18:4; 2 Kings 23:5.

Your images - The original word is rendered in the margin of our Bible sun images (2 Chronicles 14:5; Isaiah 17:8; Ezekiel 6:4, etc.). Phoenician inscriptions prove that the word was commonly applied to images of Baal and Astarte, the god of the sun and the goddess of the moon. This exactly explains 2 Chronicles 34:4 following.

Idols - The Hebrew word here literally means things which could be rolled about, such as a block of wood or a lump of dirt. It was no doubt a name given in derision. Compare Isaiah 40:20; Isa 44:19; 2 Kings 1:2.

Leviticus 26:31

Sanctuaries - The holy places in the tabernacle and the temple (Psalms 68:35. Compare Psalms 74:7).

I will not smell the savor ... - See Leviticus 1:9.

Leviticus 26:35

More literally: All the days of its desolation shall it rest that time which it rested not in your Sabbaths while ye dwelt upon it. That is, the periods of rest of which the land had been deprived would be made up to it. Compare 2 Chronicles 36:20-21.

Leviticus 26:38

The land of your enemies shall eat you up - Compare Numbers 13:32; Ezekiel 36:13.

Leviticus 26:39

Iniquity - The meaning here is, in the punishment of their iniquity, and, in the next clause, in the punishment of the iniquity (as in Leviticus 26:41, Leviticus 26:43) of their fathers. In the next verse the same Hebrew word is properly represented by “iniquity.” Our translators have in several places put one of the English words in the text and the other in the margin (Genesis 4:13; Genesis 19:15; 2 Kings 7:9; Psalms 69:27, etc.). The language of Scripture does not make that trenchant division between sin and punishment which we are accustomed to do. Sin is its own punishment, having in itself, from its very commencement, the germ of death. “Sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death” James 1:15; Romans 2:5; Romans 5:12.

Leviticus 26:40

trespass - The Hebrew word signifies an injury inflicted on the rights of a person, as distinguished from a sin or iniquity regarded as an outrage of the divine law. Every wrong act is of course both a sin and a trespass against God. In this place Yahweh takes the breach of the covenant as a personal trespass.

Leviticus 26:41

Uncircumcised hearts - The outward sign of the covenant might be preserved, but the answering grace in the heart would be wanting (Acts 7:51; Romans 2:28-29; Jeremiah 6:10; Jeremiah 9:26; compare Colossians 2:11).

Accept of the punishment of their iniquity - literally, enjoy their iniquity. The word here and in Leviticus 26:43 rendered “accept” in this phrase, is the same as is rendered “enjoy” in the expression “the land shall enjoy her sabbaths” Leviticus 26:34. The antithesis in Leviticus 26:43 is this: The land shall enjoy her sabbaths - and they shall enjoy the punishment of their iniquity. The meaning is, that the land being desolate shall have the blessing of rest, and they having repented shall have the blessing of chastisement. The feelings of a devout captive Israelite are beautifully expressed in Tobit 13:1-18.