Leviticus 26:22-26

26:22 I will send the wild animals ¹  against you and they will bereave you of your children, ²  annihilate your cattle, and diminish your population ³  so that your roads will become deserted.

26:23 “‘If in spite of these things ⁴  you do not allow yourselves to be disciplined and you walk in hostility against me, ⁵  26:24 I myself will also walk in hostility against you and strike you ⁶  seven times on account of your sins. 26:25 I will bring on you an avenging sword, a covenant vengeance. ⁷  Although ⁸  you will gather together into your cities, I will send pestilence among you and you will be given into enemy hands. ⁹  26:26 When I break off your supply of bread, ¹⁰  ten women will bake your bread in one oven; they will ration your bread by weight, ¹¹  and you will eat and not be satisfied.

[26:22]  ¹ tn Heb “the animal of the field.” This collective singular has been translated as a plural. The expression “animal of the field” refers to a wild (i.e., nondomesticated) animal.

[26:22]  ² tn The words “of your children” are not in the Hebrew text, but are implied.

[26:22]  ³ tn Heb “and diminish you.”

[26:23]  ⁴ tn Heb “And if in these.”

[26:23]  ⁵ tn Heb “with me,” but see the added preposition בְּ (bet) on the phrase “in hostility” in vv. 24 and 27.

[26:24]  ⁶ tn Heb “and I myself will also strike you.”

[26:25]  ⁷ tn Heb “vengeance of covenant”; cf. NAB “the avenger of my covenant.”

[26:25]  ⁸ tn Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) has a concessive force in this context.

[26:25]  ⁹ 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).

[26:26]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “When I break to you staff of bread” (KJV, ASV, and NASB all similar).

[26:26]  ¹¹ tn Heb “they will return your bread in weight.”