Passage
Five of yours shall pursue a hundred others: and a hundred of you ten thousand. Your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
Leviticus 26:8 (DRB)
Nearby Context
Leviticus 26:6 I will give peace in your coasts: you shall sleep, and there shall be none to make you afraid. I will take away evil beasts: and the sword shall not pass through your quarters.
Leviticus 26:7 You shall pursue your enemies: and they shall fall before you.
Leviticus 26:8 Five of yours shall pursue a hundred others: and a hundred of you ten thousand. Your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
Leviticus 26:9 I will look on you, and make you increase: you shall be multiplied, and I will establish my covenant with you.
Leviticus 26:10 You shall eat the oldest of the old store: and, new coming on, you shall cast away the old.
Study Lenses
The verse centers on "five", "yours", "shall", "pursue", "hundred", "others", and "thousand". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "five" and "yours", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.
The nearby context moves from verse 7's "You shall pursue your enemies and they..." into verse 9's "I will look on you and make...", so "five" and "yours" 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 "five" and "yours" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.