Add parallel Print Page Options

23 “‘If in spite of these things[a] you do not allow yourselves to be disciplined and you walk in hostility against me,[b] 24 then I myself will also walk in hostility against you and strike you[c] seven times on account of your sins. 25 I will bring on you an avenging sword, a covenant vengeance.[d] Although[e] you will gather together into your cities, I will send pestilence among you and you will be given into enemy hands.[f] 26 When I break off your supply of bread,[g] ten women will bake your bread in one oven; they will ration your bread by weight,[h] and you will eat and not be satisfied.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 26:23 tn Heb “And if in these.”
  2. Leviticus 26:23 tn Heb “with me,” but see the added preposition ב (bet) on the phrase “in hostility” in vv. 24 and 27.
  3. Leviticus 26:24 tn Heb “and I myself will also strike you.”
  4. Leviticus 26:25 tn Heb “vengeance of covenant”; cf. NAB “the avenger of my covenant.”
  5. Leviticus 26:25 tn Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) has a concessive force in this context.
  6. Leviticus 26:25 tn Heb “in hand of enemy,” but Tg. Ps.-J. and Tg. Neof. have “in the hands of your enemies” (J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 454).
  7. Leviticus 26:26 tn Heb “When I break to you staff of bread” (KJV, ASV, and NASB all similar).
  8. Leviticus 26:26 tn Heb “they will return your bread in weight.”