Discovery BoxLeviticus 26:14-16 
Context26:14 “‘If, however, 1 you do not obey me and keep 2 all these commandments – 26:15 if you reject my statutes and abhor my regulations so that you do not keep 3 all my commandments and you break my covenant – 26:16 I for my part 4 will do this to you: I will inflict horror on you, consumption and fever, which diminish eyesight and drain away the vitality of life. 5 You will sow your seed in vain because 6 your enemies will eat it. 7
1 tn Heb “And if.”
2 tn Heb “and do not do.”
3 tn Heb “to not do.”
4 tn Or “I also” (see HALOT 76 s.v. אַף 6.b).
5 tn Heb “soul.” These expressions may refer either to the physical effects of consumption and fever as the rendering in the text suggests (e.g., J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 452, 454, “diminishing eyesight and loss of appetite”), or perhaps the more psychological effects, “which exhausts the eyes” because of anxious hope “and causes depression” (Heb “causes soul [נֶפֶשׁ, nefesh] to pine away”), e.g., B. A. Levine, Leviticus (JPSTC), 185.
6 tn Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have causal force here.
7 tn That is, “your enemies will eat” the produce that grows from the sown seed.
