A reading from the book of Leviticus.

You shall not make idols for yourselves or erect an image or pillar, and you shall not set

up a figured stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the Lord your God.

You shall keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary. I am the Lord.

If you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them,

then I will give you your reins in their season,

and the land shall yield its increase,

and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. Your threshing shall last to the

time of the grape harvest, and the grape harvest shall last to the time for sewing, and you shall eat

your bread to the full, and dwell in your land securely. I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and none shall make

you afraid. And I will remove harmful beasts from the land, and the sword shall not go through

your land. You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.

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.

I will turn to you, and make you fruitful, and multiply multiply you and will confirm my covenant with you.

You shall eat old store long kept, and you shall clear out the old to make way for the new.

I will make my dwelling among you, and my soul shall not abhor you, and I will walk among you and will be your

God, and you shall be my people. I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of

Egypt that you should not be their slaves, and I have broken the bars of your yoke and made you walk erect.

But if you will not listen to me and will not do all these commandments,

if you spurn my statutes, and if your soul abhors my rules,

so that you will not do all my commandments

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