Lev 26:30 | NETfull | STEP | I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars, and I will stack your dead bodies on top of the lifeless bodies of your idols. I will abhor you.

Leviticus 26:30

30 I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars, ^{▼▼ Regarding these cultic installations, see the remarks in B. A. Levine, Leviticus (JPSTC), 188, and R. E. Averbeck, NIDOTTE 2:903. The term rendered “incense altars” might better be rendered “sanctuaries [of foreign deities]” or “stelae.”} and I will stack your dead bodies on top of the lifeless bodies of your idols. ^{▼▼ The translation reflects the Hebrew wordplay “your corpses…the corpses of your idols.” Since idols, being lifeless, do not really have “corpses,” the translation uses “dead bodies” for people and “lifeless bodies” for the idols.} I will abhor you. ^{▼▼ Heb “and my soul will abhor you.”}