Leviticus 26 is an entire chapter structured around a recurrence of if-then structures. Paragraph 1 (P1) introduces the chapter. P2 (26:3-13) starts with, “If you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them, then I will give you your rains in their season, and . . . ” P2 starts with the conditions for blessings and then gives the results of meeting those conditions.
P3 begins the punishment for disobedience with, “But if you will not listen to me and will not do all these commandments, if you spurn my statutes, and if your soul abhors my rules . . .” (26:14-20). P4 (26:21-22) continues the promise of discipline with, “Then if you walk contrary to me and will not listen to me, I will continue striking you, sevenfold for your sins . . . .” P5 (26:23-26) continues the promise of discipline with, “And if by this discipline you are not turned to me but walk contrary to me, then I also will walk contrary to you . . . .” P6 (26:27-33) continues the discipline with, “But if in spite of this you will not listen to me, but walk contrary to me, then I will walk contrary to you in fury, and I myself will discipline . . .” P7 (26: 34-39) continues the thought in P6 without interruption. P8 (26:40-45) starts with, “But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers in their treachery that they committed against me . . . .” P9 concludes the chapter.
