Bible Verses About Contingencies

And Jehovah God layeth a charge on the man, saying, `Of every tree of the garden eating thou dost eat;

and of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou dost not eat of it, for in the day of thine eating of it--dying thou dost die.'

`If in My statutes ye walk, and My commands ye keep, and have done them,

then I have given your rains in their season, and the land hath given her produce, and the tree of the field doth give its fruit;

and reached to you hath the threshing, the gathering, and the gathering doth reach the sowing- time ; and ye have eaten your bread to satiety, and have dwelt confidently in your land.

`And I have given peace in the land, and ye have lain down, and there is none causing trembling; and I have caused evil beasts to cease out of the land, and the sword doth not pass over into your land.

`And ye have pursued your enemies, and they have fallen before you by the sword;

and five of you have pursued a hundred, and a hundred of you do pursue a myriad; and your enemies have fallen before you by the sword.

`And I have turned unto you, and have made you fruitful, and have multiplied you, and have established My covenant with you;

and ye have eaten old store , and the old because of the new ye bring out.

`And I have given My tabernacle in your midst, and My soul doth not loathe you;

and I have walked habitually in your midst, and have become your God, and ye--ye are become My people;

I am Jehovah your God, who have brought you out of the land of the Egyptians, from being their servants; and I break the bars of your yoke, and cause you to go erect.

`And if ye do not hearken to Me, and do not all these commands;

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--

I also do this to you, and I have appointed over you trouble, the consumption, and the burning fever, consuming eyes, and causing pain of soul; and your seed in vain ye have sowed, and your enemies have eaten it;

and I have set My face against you, and ye have been smitten before your enemies; and those hating you have ruled over you, and ye have fled, and there is none pursuing you.

`And if unto these ye hearken not to Me, --then I have added to chastise you seven times for your sins;

and I have broken the pride of your strength, and have made your heavens as iron, and your earth as brass;

and consumed hath been your strength in vain, and your land doth not give her produce, and the tree of the land doth not give its fruit.

`And if ye walk with Me in opposition, and are not willing to hearken to Me, then I have added to you a plague seven times, according to your sins,

and sent against you the beast of the field, and it hath bereaved you; and I have cut off your cattle, and have made you few, and your ways have been desolate.

`And if by these ye are not instructed by Me, and have walked with Me in opposition,

then I have walked--I also--with you in opposition, and have smitten you, even I, seven times for your sins;

and I have brought in on you a sword, executing the vengeance of a covenant; and ye have been gathered unto your cities, and I have sent pestilence into your midst, and ye have been given into the hand of an enemy.