Leviticus 14:45

14:45 He must tear down the house, ¹  its stones, its wood, and all the plaster of the house, and bring all of it ²  outside the city to an unclean place.

Leviticus 26:6

26:6 I will grant peace in the land so that ³  you will lie down to sleep without anyone terrifying you. ⁴  I will remove harmful animals ⁵  from the land, and no sword of war ⁶  will pass through your land.

Leviticus 26:17

26:17 I will set my face against you. You will be struck down before your enemies, those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when there is no one pursuing you.

Leviticus 26:30

26:30 I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars, ⁷  and I will stack your dead bodies on top of the lifeless bodies of your idols. ⁸  I will abhor you. ⁹ 

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¹ tn Smr, LXX, Syriac, and Tg. Ps.-J. have the plural verb, perhaps suggesting a passive translation, “The house…shall be torn down” (cf. NAB, NIV, TEV, NLT, and see the note on v. 4b above).

² tn Once again, Smr, LXX, and Syriac have the plural verb, perhaps to be rendered passive, “shall be brought.”

³ tn Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative force here.

⁴ tn Heb “and there will be no one who terrifies.” The words “to sleep” have been supplied in the translation for clarity.

⁵ tn Heb “harmful animal,” singular, but taken here as a collective plural (so almost all English versions).

⁶ tn Heb “no sword”; the words “of war” are supplied in the translation to indicate what the metaphor of the sword represents.

⁷ 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.”

⁸ 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.

⁹ tn Heb “and my soul will abhor you.”