Imamat 26:36-39

26:36 “‘As for ¹  the ones who remain among you, I will bring despair into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a blowing leaf will pursue them, and they will flee as one who flees the sword and fall down even though there is no pursuer. 26:37 They will stumble over each other as those who flee before a sword, though ²  there is no pursuer, and there will be no one to take a stand ³  for you before your enemies. 26:38 You will perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will consume you.

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26:39 “‘As for the ones who remain among you, they will rot away because of ⁴  their iniquity in the lands of your enemies, and they will also rot away because of their ancestors’ ⁵  iniquities which are with them.

[26:36]  ¹ tn Heb “And.”

[26:37]  ² tn Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) is used in a concessive sense here.

[26:37]  ³ tn The term rendered “to stand up” is a noun, not an infinitive. It occurs only here and appears to designate someone who would take a powerful stand for them against their enemies.

[26:39]  ⁴ tn Heb “in” (so KJV, ASV; also later in this verse).

[26:39]  ⁵ tn Heb “fathers’” (also in the following verse).