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Exiled families and elders kneel together in honest confession for their own and their ancestors’ unfaithfulness, hands open and hearts humbled. In the distance the abandoned homeland rests through its Sabbaths beneath soft rain. No self-harm, humiliation by captors, text, sacrifice, blood, or visible deity.
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Leviticus 26:40-43

Confession and a humbled heart

Blessing, Warning, and Covenant Memory · Leviticus 26

Story guide: Exiled families and elders kneel together in honest confession for their own and their ancestors’ unfaithfulness, hands open and hearts humbled. In the distance the abandoned homeland rests through its Sabbaths beneath soft rain. No self-harm, humiliation by captors, text, sacrifice, blood, or visible deity.

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40But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, in the unfaithfulness by which they were unfaithful to me, and also that they walked contrary to me,

41I too will walk contrary to them and bring them into the land of their enemies; or then their uncircumcised heart will be humbled, and then they will accept the punishment for their iniquity.

42Then I will remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham I will remember; and I will remember the land.

43But the land will be abandoned by them and will enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them, and they will accept the punishment for their iniquity, because—indeed, because—they rejected my judgments and their soul abhorred my statutes.

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