²⁷“ ‘And if through this you do not listen to me and you go against me in hostility, ²⁸then^o I will go against you in hostile anger, and also^p I myself^q will discipline you seven times for your sins. ²⁹And you shall eat the flesh of your sons; and the flesh of your daughters you shall eat. ³⁰And I will destroy your high places, and I will cut down your incense altars, and I will place your corpses on your idols’ corpses; and my inner self^r shall abhor you. ³¹And I will lay your cities in ruins, and I will lay waste your sanctuaries; and I shall not smell your sacrifices’^s appeasing fragrance. ³²And I myself^t will lay waste the land, and your enemies who are living in it shall be appalled over it. ³³And I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw a sword behind you; and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a ruin. ³⁴Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths all the days of its lying desolate, and you shall be in the land of your enemies; then the land shall rest, and it shall enjoy its Sabbaths. ³⁵All the days of its lying desolate it shall rest for the time^u that it had not rested during your Sabbaths while you were living on it. ³⁶As for^v the ones who remain among you, I will bring^w fearfulness in their hearts in the land of their enemies; and a sound of a windblown leaf shall pursue them, and they shall flee like flight before^x a sword, and they shall fall, but^y there shall not be a pursuer. ³⁷And they shall stumble over one another^z as from before^a a sword, but^b there shall not be a pursuer; and you shall have no resistance^c before^d your enemies. ³⁸And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you. ³⁹And because of their guilt, the ones among you who remain shall decay in the land of their enemies; and also because of the iniquities of their ancestors,^e they shall decay with them.

⁴⁰“ ‘But^f when they confess their guilt and the guilt of their ancestors^g in their infidelity that they displayed against me, and moreover that they went against me in hostility— ⁴¹I myself^h alsoⁱ went against them in hostility, and I brought them into the land of their enemies—or if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled and then they pay for their guilt, ⁴²I will remember^j my covenant with Jacob; and I will remember also my covenant with Isaac and also my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land. ⁴³And the land shall be deserted by them, and it shall enjoy its Sabbaths in its being desolate from them, and they themselves^k must pay for their guilt, simply because^l they rejected my regulations, and their inner self^m abhorred my statutes. ⁴⁴And in spite ofⁿ this, when they are^o in the land of their enemies I will not reject them, and I will not abhor them to destroy them, to break my covenant with them, because I am Yahweh their God. ⁴⁵And I will remember the first covenant for them^p—whom I brought out from the land of Egypt in the sight of^q the nations to be their God.^r I am Yahweh.’ ”

⁴⁶These are the rules and the regulations and the laws that Yahweh gave between himself and the Israelites^s on Mount Sinai^t through^u Moses.

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Footnotes

oOr “and”
pOr “surely”
qEmphatic personal pronoun
rOr “soul”
sImplied by the use of the same phraseology in regard to the sacrifices in the early chapters of the book
tEmphatic personal pronoun
uImplied by context
vOr “And”
wOr “and I will bring”
xLiterally “of”
yOr “and”
zLiterally “a man on his brother”
aLiterally “from the faces of”
bOr “and”
cLiterally “it shall not be for you resistance”
dLiterally “to the faces of”
eOr “fathers”
fOr “And”
gOr “fathers”
hEmphatic personal pronoun
iOr “surely”
jOr “and I will remember”
kEmphatic personal pronoun
lLiterally “because and in because”
mOr “soul”
nLiterally “also even” or “moreover also” or “moreover even”
oLiterally “in their being”
pOr “on behalf of them” or “on their behalf”
qLiterally “to the eyes of” or “for the eyes of”
rLiterally “to be for them for God” or “to be for them as a God”
sLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
tLiterally “the mountain of Sinai”
uLiterally “in/by the hand of”