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Leviticus 26:39-46
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Restoration through Confession and Repentance

39 “‘As for the ones who remain among you, they will rot away because of[a] their iniquity in the lands of your enemies, and they will also rot away because of their ancestors’[b] iniquities which are with them. 40 However, when[c] they confess their iniquity and their ancestors’ iniquities which they committed by trespassing against me,[d] by which they also walked[e] in hostility against me[f] 41 (and I myself will walk in hostility against them and bring them into the land of their enemies), and[g] then their uncircumcised hearts become humbled and they make up for[h] their iniquities, 42 I will remember my covenant with Jacob and also my covenant with Isaac and also my covenant with Abraham,[i] and I will remember the land. 43 The land will be abandoned by them[j] in order that it may make up for[k] its Sabbaths while it is made desolate[l] without them,[m] and they will make up for their iniquity because[n] they have rejected my regulations and have abhorred[o] my statutes. 44 In spite of this, however, when they are in the land of their enemies I will not reject them and abhor them to make a complete end of them, to break my covenant with them, for I am the Lord their God. 45 I will remember for them the covenant with their ancestors[p] whom I brought out from the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations to be their God. I am the Lord.’”

Summary Colophon

46 These are the statutes, regulations, and instructions which the Lord established[q] between himself and the Israelites at Mount Sinai through[r] Moses.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 26:39 tn Heb “in” (so KJV, ASV; also later in this verse).
  2. Leviticus 26:39 tn Heb “fathers’” (also in the following verse).
  3. Leviticus 26:40 tn Heb “And.” Many English versions take this to be a conditional clause (“if…”) though there is no conditional particle (see, e.g., NASB, NIV, NRSV; but see the very different rendering in B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 190). The temporal translation offered here (“when”) takes into account the particle אָז (ʾaz, “then”), which occurs twice in v. 41. The obvious contextual contrast between vv. 39 and 40 is expressed by “however” in the translation.
  4. Leviticus 26:40 tn Heb “in their trespassing which they trespassed in me.” See the note on Lev 5:15, although the term is used in a more technical sense there in relation to the “guilt offering.”
  5. Leviticus 26:40 tn Heb “and also which they walked.”
  6. Leviticus 26:40 tn Heb “with me.”
  7. Leviticus 26:41 tn Heb “or then,” although the LXX has “then” and the Syriac “and then.”
  8. Leviticus 26:41 tn Heb “and then they make up for.” On the verb “make up for” see the note on v. 34 above.
  9. Leviticus 26:42 tn Heb “my covenant with Abraham I will remember.” The phrase “I will remember” has not been repeated in the translation for stylistic reasons.
  10. Leviticus 26:43 tn Heb “from them.” The preposition “from” refers here to the agent of the action (J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 455).
  11. Leviticus 26:43 tn The jussive form of the verb with the simple vav (ו) here calls for a translation that expresses purpose.
  12. Leviticus 26:43 tn The verb is the Hophal infinitive construct with the third feminine singular suffix (GKC 182 §67.y; cf. v. 34).
  13. Leviticus 26:43 tn Heb “from them.”
  14. Leviticus 26:43 tn Heb “because and in because,” a double expression, which is used only here and in Ezek 13:10 (without the vav) for emphasis (GKC 492 §158.b).
  15. Leviticus 26:43 tn Heb “and their soul has abhorred.”
  16. Leviticus 26:45 tn Heb “covenant of former ones.” sn For similar expressions referring back to the ancestors who refused to follow the stipulations of the Mosaic covenant see, for example, Deut 19:14, Jer 11:10, and Ps 79:8 (see B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 192, and J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 471).
  17. Leviticus 26:46 tn Heb “gave” (so NLT); KJV, ASV, NCV “made.”
  18. Leviticus 26:46 tn Heb “by the hand of” (so KJV).
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Leviticus 26:39-46
New Living Translation

39 Those of you who survive will waste away in your enemies’ lands because of their sins and the sins of their ancestors.

40 “But at last my people will confess their sins and the sins of their ancestors for betraying me and being hostile toward me. 41 When I have turned their hostility back on them and brought them to the land of their enemies, then at last their stubborn hearts will be humbled, and they will pay for their sins. 42 Then I will remember my covenant with Jacob and my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land. 43 For the land must be abandoned to enjoy its years of Sabbath rest as it lies deserted. At last the people will pay for their sins, for they have continually rejected my regulations and despised my decrees.

44 “But despite all this, I will not utterly reject or despise them while they are in exile in the land of their enemies. I will not cancel my covenant with them by wiping them out, for I am the Lord their God. 45 For their sakes I will remember my ancient covenant with their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of all the nations, that I might be their God. I am the Lord.”

46 These are the decrees, regulations, and instructions that the Lord gave through Moses on Mount Sinai as evidence of the relationship between himself and the Israelites.

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