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25 I will bring on you an avenging sword, a covenant vengeance.[a] Although[b] you will gather together into your cities, I will send pestilence among you and you will be given into enemy hands.[c] 26 When I break off your supply of bread,[d] ten women will bake your bread in one oven; they will ration your bread by weight,[e] and you will eat and not be satisfied.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 26:25 tn Heb “vengeance of covenant”; cf. NAB “the avenger of my covenant.”
  2. Leviticus 26:25 tn Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) has a concessive force in this context.
  3. 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).
  4. Leviticus 26:26 tn Heb “When I break to you staff of bread” (KJV, ASV, and NASB all similar).
  5. Leviticus 26:26 tn Heb “they will return your bread in weight.”

25 And I will bring the sword(A) on you to avenge(B) the breaking of the covenant. When you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague(C) among you, and you will be given into enemy hands. 26 When I cut off your supply of bread,(D) ten women will be able to bake your bread in one oven, and they will dole out the bread by weight. You will eat, but you will not be satisfied.

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