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18 “‘If, in spite of all these things,[a] you do not obey me, I will discipline you seven times more on account of your sins.[b] 19 I will break your strong pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze. 20 Your strength will be used up in vain, your land will not give its yield, and the trees of the land[c] will not produce their fruit.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 26:18 tn Heb “And if until these.”
  2. Leviticus 26:18 tn Heb “I will add to discipline you seven [times] on your sins.”
  3. Leviticus 26:20 tn Heb “the tree of the land will not give its fruit.” The collective singular has been translated as a plural. One Hebrew ms from Cairo Geniza, other medieval Hebrew mss, Smr, LXX, and Tg. Ps.-J. have “the field” as in v. 4, rather than “the land.”

18 “‘If after all this you will not listen to me,(A) I will punish(B) you for your sins seven times over.(C) 19 I will break down your stubborn pride(D) and make the sky above you like iron and the ground beneath you like bronze.(E) 20 Your strength will be spent in vain,(F) because your soil will not yield its crops, nor will the trees of your land yield their fruit.(G)

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