Leviticus 26:21-26

Why does the warning keep repeating the refusal to listen?

Berean Standard Bible

21 If you walk in hostility toward Me and refuse to obey Me, I will multiply your plagues seven times, according to your sins. 22 I will send wild animals against you to rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and reduce your numbers, until your roads lie desolate. 23 And if in spite of these things you do not accept My discipline, but continue to walk in hostility toward Me, 24 then I will act with hostility toward you, and I will strike you sevenfold for your sins. 25 And I will bring a sword against you to execute the vengeance of the covenant. Though you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague among you, and you will be delivered into the hand of the enemy. 26 When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.

What is the context?

The passage repeatedly describes hostility to the Lord and refusal of His discipline. Wild animals, loss of life and livestock, warfare, plague, and food shortage follow in the stated warnings.

The image of many women baking in one oven and distributing bread by weight describes scarcity where ordinary food supply has broken down. Retreating inside cities does not bring safety from the covenant judgment.

How is this passage commonly understood?

Wesley explains the shared oven and weighed portions as a picture of famine. The USCCB notes likewise place famine and attack within the increasing warnings. The repeated opportunity to hear makes persistent resistance central to the passage.

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