Leviticus 26:26

26:26 When I break off your supply of bread,¹ ten women will bake your bread in one oven; they will ration your bread by weight,² and you will eat and not be satisfied.

Deuteronomy 28:38

The Curse of Reversed Status

28:38 “You will take much seed to the field but gather little harvest, because locusts will consume it.

Deuteronomy 28:1

The Covenant Blessings

28:1 “If you indeed³ obey the Lord your God and are careful to observe all his commandments I am giving⁴ you today, the Lord your God will elevate you above all the nations of the earth.

Deuteronomy 17:1

17:1 You must not sacrifice to him⁵ a bull or sheep that has a blemish or any other defect, because that is considered offensive⁶ to the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 18:2

18:2 They⁷ will have no inheritance in the midst of their fellow Israelites;⁸ the Lord alone is their inheritance, just as he had told them.

Deuteronomy 18:2

18:2 They⁹ will have no inheritance in the midst of their fellow Israelites;¹⁰ the Lord alone is their inheritance, just as he had told them.

Deuteronomy 4:38

4:38 to dispossess nations greater and stronger than you and brought you here this day to give you their land as your property.¹¹

Deuteronomy 6:25

6:25 We will be innocent if we carefully keep all these commandments¹² before the Lord our God, just as he demands.”¹³

Deuteronomy 8:1

The Lord’s Provision in the Desert

8:1 You must keep carefully all these commandments¹⁴ I am giving¹⁵ you today so that you may live, increase in number,¹⁶ and go in and occupy the land that the Lord promised to your ancestors.¹⁷

Ezekiel 16:27

16:27 So see here, I have stretched out my hand against you and cut off your rations. I have delivered you into the power of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed by your obscene conduct.

¹tn Heb “When I break to you staff of bread” (KJV, ASV, and NASB all similar).

²tn Heb “they will return your bread in weight.”

³tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation indicates with “indeed.”

⁴tn Heb “commanding”; NAB “which I enjoin on you today” (likewise in v. 15).

⁵tn Heb “to the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 16:1.

⁶tn The Hebrew word תּוֹעֵבָה (to’evah, “an abomination”; cf. NAB) describes persons, things, or practices offensive to ritual or moral order. See M. Grisanti, NIDOTTE 4:314-18; see also the note on the word “abhorrent” in Deut 7:25.

⁷tn Heb “he” (and throughout the verse).

⁸tn Heb “brothers,” but not referring to actual siblings. Cf. NASB “their countrymen”; NRSV “the other members of the community.”

⁹tn Heb “he” (and throughout the verse).

¹⁰tn Heb “brothers,” but not referring to actual siblings. Cf. NASB “their countrymen”; NRSV “the other members of the community.”

¹¹tn Heb “(as) an inheritance,” that is, landed property that one can pass on to one’s descendants.

¹²tn The term “commandment” (מִצְוָה, mitsvah), here in the singular, refers to the entire body of covenant stipulations.

¹³tn Heb “as he has commanded us” (so NIV, NRSV).

¹⁴tn The singular term (מִצְוָה, mitsvah) includes the whole corpus of covenant stipulations, certainly the book of Deuteronomy at least (cf. Deut 5:28; 6:1, 25; 7:11; 11:8, 22; 15:5; 17:20; 19:9; 27:1; 30:11; 31:5). The plural (מִצְוֹת, mitsot) refers to individual stipulations (as in vv. 2, 6).

¹⁵tn Heb “commanding” (so NASB). For stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy, “giving” has been used in the translation (likewise in v. 11).

¹⁶tn Heb “multiply” (so KJV, NASB, NLT); NIV, NRSV “increase.”

¹⁷tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 16, 18).