26:21 “‘If you walk in hostility against me 2 and are not willing to obey me, I will increase your affliction 3 seven times according to your sins.
26:23 “‘If in spite of these things 4 you do not allow yourselves to be disciplined and you walk in hostility against me, 5
1 tn Heb “and I myself will also strike you.”
2 tn Heb “hostile with me,” but see the added preposition בְּ (bet) on the phrase “in hostility” in v. 24 and 27.
3 tn Heb “your blow, stroke”; cf. TEV “punishment”; NLT “I will inflict you with seven more disasters.”
4 tn Heb “And if in these.”
5 tn Heb “with me,” but see the added preposition בְּ (bet) on the phrase “in hostility” in vv. 24 and 27.
6 tn Heb “And.” Many English versions take this to be a conditional clause (“if…”) though there is no conditional particle (see, e.g., NASB, NIV, NRSV; but see the very different rendering in B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 190). The temporal translation offered here (“when”) takes into account the particle אָז (’az, “then”), which occurs twice in v. 41. The obvious contextual contrast between vv. 39 and 40 is expressed by “however” in the translation.
7 tn Heb “in their trespassing which they trespassed in me.” See the note on Lev 5:15, although the term is used in a more technical sense there in relation to the “guilt offering.”
8 tn Heb “and also which they walked.”
9 tn Heb “with me.”