Leviticus 26:21
New International Version
“’If you remain hostile toward me and refuse to listen to me, I will multiply your afflictions seven times over, as your sins deserve.

New Living Translation
“If even then you remain hostile toward me and refuse to obey me, I will inflict disaster on you seven times over for your sins.

English Standard Version
“Then if you walk contrary to me and will not listen to me, I will continue striking you, sevenfold for your sins.

Berean Standard Bible
If you walk in hostility toward Me and refuse to obey Me, I will multiply your plagues seven times, according to your sins.

King James Bible
And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.

New King James Version
‘Then, if you walk contrary to Me, and are not willing to obey Me, I will bring on you seven times more plagues, according to your sins.

New American Standard Bible
‘Yet if you show hostility toward Me and are unwilling to obey Me, I will increase the plague on you seven times according to your sins.

NASB 1995
‘If then, you act with hostility against Me and are unwilling to obey Me, I will increase the plague on you seven times according to your sins.

NASB 1977
‘If then, you act with hostility against Me and are unwilling to obey Me, I will increase the plague on you seven times according to your sins.

Legacy Standard Bible
‘If then, you walk in hostility against Me and are unwilling to obey Me, I will increase the plague on you seven times according to your sins.

Amplified Bible
‘If then, you act with hostility toward Me and are unwilling to obey Me, I will increase the plague on you seven times in accordance with your sins.

Christian Standard Bible
“If you act with hostility toward me and are unwilling to obey me, I will multiply your plagues seven times for your sins.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
If you act with hostility toward Me and are unwilling to obey Me, I will multiply your plagues seven times for your sins.

American Standard Version
And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me, I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And if you will walk with me contentiously and you will not be willing to listen to me, I shall add upon you plagues, each by sevens, for your sins.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And if after this ye should walk perversely, and not be willing to obey me, I will further bring upon you seven plagues according to your sins.

Contemporary English Version
If you keep rebelling against me, I'll punish you seven times worse, just as your sins deserve!

Douay-Rheims Bible
If you walk contrary to me, and will not hearken to me, I will bring seven times more plagues upon you for your sins:

English Revised Version
And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"If you resist and don't listen to me, I will increase the punishment for your sins seven times.

Good News Translation
"If you still continue to resist me and refuse to obey me, I will again increase your punishment seven times.

International Standard Version
"If you live life contrary to me and remain unwilling to listen to me, then I'll add to your wounds seven times more on account of your sins.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And if ye walk contrary unto Me, and will not hearken unto Me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.

Literal Standard Version
And if you walk with Me [in] opposition, and are not willing to listen to Me, then I have added to you a plague sevenfold, according to your sins,

Majority Standard Bible
If you walk in hostility toward Me and refuse to obey Me, I will multiply your plagues seven times, according to your sins.

New American Bible
If then you continue hostile, unwilling to obey me, I will multiply my blows sevenfold, as your sins deserve.

NET Bible
"'If you walk in hostility against me and are not willing to obey me, I will increase your affliction seven times according to your sins.

New Revised Standard Version
If you continue hostile to me, and will not obey me, I will continue to plague you sevenfold for your sins.

New Heart English Bible
"'If you walk contrary to me, and won't listen to me, then I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to your sins.

Webster's Bible Translation
And if ye shall walk contrary to me, and will not hearken to me, I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.

World English Bible
“‘If you walk contrary to me, and won’t listen to me, then I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to your sins.

Young's Literal Translation
And if ye walk with Me in opposition, and are not willing to hearken to Me, then I have added to you a plague seven times, according to your sins,

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Context
Punishments for Disobedience
20and your strength will be spent in vain. For your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit. 21If you walk in hostility toward Me and refuse to obey Me, I will multiply your plagues seven times, according to your sins. 22I will send wild animals against you to rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and reduce your numbers, until your roads lie desolate.…

Cross References
Revelation 15:1
Then I saw another great and marvelous sign in heaven: seven angels with the seven final plagues, with which the wrath of God is completed.

Leviticus 26:18
And if after all this you will not obey Me, I will proceed to punish you sevenfold for your sins.

Leviticus 26:23
And if in spite of these things you do not accept My discipline, but continue to walk in hostility toward Me,

Leviticus 26:24
then I will act with hostility toward you, and I will strike you sevenfold for your sins.

Leviticus 26:27
But if in spite of all this you do not obey Me, but continue to walk in hostility toward Me,

Psalm 79:12
Pay back into the laps of our neighbors sevenfold the reproach they hurled at You, O Lord.

Ezekiel 21:14
So then, son of man, prophesy and strike your hands together. Let the sword strike two times, even three. It is a sword that slays, a sword of great slaughter closing in on every side!


Treasury of Scripture

And if you walk contrary to me, and will not listen to me; I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to your sins.

contrary unto me.

Leviticus 26:24
Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.

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(21) And if ye walk contrary unto me.--That is, continue the defiance of the Divine law, and rebel against God's authority. The third warning, contained in Leviticus 26:21-22, threatens them with destruction by wild beasts.

Seven times more plagues.--That is, a still greater number. (See Leviticus 26:18.)

According to your sins.--This increased number of scourges will be in proportion to their sins, since their defiance, in spite of the two preceding classes of punishments, aggravates and enhances their guilt.

Verses 21, 22. - Punishment in its third degree. I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number. So in the case of the Assyrians transported to Palestine, "At the beginning of their dwelling there, they feared not the Lord: therefore the Lord sent lions among them, which slew some of them" (2 Kings 17:25) - and your high ways shall be desolate. Cf. Judges 5:6, "In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travelers walked through byways."

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
If
וְאִם־ (wə·’im-)
Conjunctive waw | Conjunction
Strong's 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not

you walk
תֵּֽלְכ֤וּ (tê·lə·ḵū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 1980: To go, come, walk

in hostility
קֶ֔רִי (qe·rî)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7147: Opposition, contrariness

toward Me
עִמִּי֙ (‘im·mî)
Preposition | first person common singular
Strong's 5973: With, equally with

and refuse
וְלֹ֥א (wə·lō)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

to obey Me,
לִשְׁמֹ֣עַֽ (liš·mō·a‘)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 8085: To hear intelligently

I will multiply
וְיָסַפְתִּ֤י (wə·yā·sap̄·tî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 3254: To add, augment

your plagues
מַכָּ֔ה (mak·kāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 4347: A wound, carnage, pestilence

seven times,
שֶׁ֖בַע (še·ḇa‘)
Number - feminine singular
Strong's 7651: Seven, seven times, a week, an indefinite number

according to your sins.
כְּחַטֹּאתֵיכֶֽם׃ (kə·ḥaṭ·ṭō·ṯê·ḵem)
Preposition-k | Noun - feminine plural construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's 2403: An offence, its penalty, occasion, sacrifice, expiation, an offender


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