How we cite our quotes: (Chapter:Verse)
Quote #10
If you spurn my statutes, and abhor my ordinances, so that you will not observe all my commandments, and you break my covenant, I in turn will do this to you: I will bring terror on you; consumption and fever that waste the eyes and cause life to pine away. You shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. (NRSV 26:15-16)
And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant: I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. (KJV 26:15-16)
The overarching theme of Leviticus is God's contract with his people, so it's only natural that the worst punishments can be found in the covenantal judgments at the end of the book. Obeying God results in life and abundance. Disobedience—death, decay, and the consumption of Israel's God-blessed super seeds by hostile Angry Birds.