Bechukotai

The covenant's two roads are set out. If Israel walks in the statutes: rains in their season, the land yielding its produce, threshing lasting to vintage and vintage to sowing, bread eaten to the full, peace in the land, enemies falling, and above all presence — "I will set My dwelling among you... and I will walk among you, and I will be your God, and you shall be My people. I broke the bars of your yoke and made you walk upright."

If not, the curses come in waves, each introduced with "and if you still will not listen, I will chastise you sevenfold": terror and disease, seed sown for enemies to eat, drought with skies like iron, wild beasts, the sword, pestilence in besieged cities, bread doled out by weight, and at the extreme, famine's horrors, ruined cities and desolate sanctuaries, and scattering among the nations — while the land, emptied, at last enjoys the Sabbaths it was denied. Yet the passage bends at its end: when their heart is humbled and they confess, "I will remember My covenant with Jacob, and also My covenant with Isaac, and also My covenant with Abraham... I will not reject them or spurn them so as to destroy them."

The book closes with the chapter of valuations: the fixed amounts by age and sex for one who vows a person's worth to the LORD, with adjustment for the poor; the rules for animals vowed, clean and unclean; houses and fields consecrated and redeemed, their price reckoned to the Jubilee, with a fifth added; the firstborn, which is the LORD's already and cannot be consecrated; the devoted thing, cherem, which is not sold or redeemed; and the tithe of land and of the herd, every tenth animal that passes under the rod. "These are the commandments that the LORD commanded Moses for the children of Israel on Mount Sinai."