Leviticus 26:27-33

26:27 “‘If in spite of this ¹  you do not obey me but walk in hostility against me, ²  26:28 I will walk in hostile rage against you ³  and I myself will also discipline you seven times on account of your sins. 26:29 You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters. ⁴  26:30 I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars, ⁵  and I will stack your dead bodies on top of the lifeless bodies of your idols. ⁶  I will abhor you. ⁷  26:31 I will lay your cities waste ⁸  and make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will refuse to smell your soothing aromas. 26:32 I myself will make the land desolate and your enemies who live in it will be appalled. 26:33 I will scatter you among the nations and unsheathe the sword ⁹  after you, so your land will become desolate and your cities will become a waste.

[26:27]  ¹ tn Heb “And if in this.”

[26:27]  ² tn Heb “with me.”

[26:28]  ³ tn Heb “in rage of hostility with you”; NASB “with wrathful hostility”; NRSV “I will continue hostile to you in fury”; CEV “I’ll get really furious.”

[26:29]  ⁴ tn Heb “and the flesh of your daughters you will eat.” The phrase “you will eat” has not been repeated in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[26:30]  ⁵ sn Regarding these cultic installations, see the remarks in B. A. Levine, Leviticus (JPSTC), 188, and R. E. Averbeck, NIDOTTE 2:903. The term rendered “incense altars” might better be rendered “sanctuaries [of foreign deities]” or “stelae.”

[26:30]  ⁶ tn The translation reflects the Hebrew wordplay “your corpses…the corpses of your idols.” Since idols, being lifeless, do not really have “corpses,” the translation uses “dead bodies” for people and “lifeless bodies” for the idols.

[26:30]  ⁷ tn Heb “and my soul will abhor you.”

[26:31]  ⁸ tn Heb “And I will give your cities a waste”; NLT “make your cities desolate.”

[26:33]  ⁹ tn Heb “and I will empty sword” (see HALOT 1228 s.v. ריק 3).