“And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.”
If after all this you will not listen to me, I will punish you for your sins seven times over. The seven-times intensification of the covenant curses for continued disobedience after the first level of curses: I will punish seven times over. The seven-times language communicates the comprehensive and complete character of the intensified punishment: not merely more punishment but the covenant's complete range of covenantal consequence applied in full. Leviticus 26 is structured in escalating levels — each level more severe than the previous, each triggered by the continued rejection of the covenant.
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