Leviticus 26:25

26:25 I will bring on you an avenging sword, a covenant vengeance. ¹  Although ²  you will gather together into your cities, I will send pestilence among you and you will be given into enemy hands. ³ 

Leviticus 26:45

26:45 I will remember for them the covenant with their ancestors ⁴  whom I brought out from the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations to be their God. I am the Lord.’”

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¹ tn Heb “vengeance of covenant”; cf. NAB “the avenger of my covenant.”

² tn Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) has a concessive force in this context.

³ 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 tn Heb “covenant of former ones.”

sn For similar expressions referring back to the ancestors who refused to follow the stipulations of the Mosaic covenant see, for example, Deut 19:14, Jer 11:10, and Ps 79:8 (see B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 192, and J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 471).