Discovery BoxLeviticus 23:43 
Context23:43 so that your future generations may know that I made the Israelites live in temporary shelters when I brought them out from the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.’”
Leviticus 26:30
Context26:30 I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars, 1 and I will stack your dead bodies on top of the lifeless bodies of your idols. 2 I will abhor you. 3
Leviticus 26:45
Context26:45 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.’”
1 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.”
2 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.
3 tn Heb “and my soul will abhor you.”
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).
