Leviticus 26:26 (ASV)

Passage

When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.

Nearby Context

Leviticus 26:24 then will I also walk contrary unto you; and I will smite you, even I, seven times for your sins.

Leviticus 26:25 And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall execute the vengeance of the covenant; and ye shall be gathered together within your cities: and I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

Leviticus 26:26 When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.

Leviticus 26:27 And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me;

Leviticus 26:28 then I will walk contrary unto you in wrath; and I also will chastise you seven times for your sins.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "break", "staff", "bread", "women", "shall", "bake", and "oven". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "break" and "staff", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 25's "And I will bring a sword upon..." into verse 27's "And if ye will not for all...", so "break" and "staff" belong inside that flow. In Leviticus context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "break" and "staff" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.