Leviticus 26:25
Hebrew Bible
24 then I myself will also walk in hostility against you and strike you seven times on account of your sins. 25 I will bring on you an avenging sword, a covenant vengeance. Although you will gather together into your cities, I will send pestilence among you, and you will be given into enemy hands. 26 When I break off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven; they will ration your bread by weight, and you will eat and not be satisfied.
Date: 5th Century B.C.E. (Final composition) (based on scholarly estimates)
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Onkelos Leviticus 26:25
Targum
24 I also will proceed with you in hardness, and will smite you, even I, sevenfold for your sins. 25 And I will bring upon you those who kill with the sword, who shall take vengeance upon you in punishment for your transgressions against the words of the law. And you will congregate in your cities; but I will send forth the pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into the hands of your enemies. 26 When I shall have broken for you the support of food, ten women will prepare your bread in one oven, and return your bread by weight, and you will eat, but will not be satisfied.
Date: 100-200 C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References
"... "You violated the words of the Torah" ... The people suffer revenge (or recompense, according to our translator) because of “the vengeance of the covenant,” an obscure metaphor, which our translator understands to mean that the Israelites transgressed the Torah laws. Again, he removes the emotional “vengeance” and explains “the covenant” as the Torah, as in Genesis 27:40 and Deuteronomy 32:10. Ibn Ezra is more specific when he suggests that “covenant” is the covenant at Mount Sinai when the Israelites bound themselves with the commitment “All that the Lord has spoken we will do and accept” (Exodus 24:7) ..."
Drazin, Israel, and Stanley M. Wagner
Onkelos on the Torah, Leviticus: Understanding the Bible Text
(p. 225) Gefen, 2006
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