Leviticus 26:39

Restoration through Confession and Repentance

26:39 “‘As for the ones who remain among you, they will rot away because of ¹  their iniquity in the lands of your enemies, and they will also rot away because of their ancestors’ ²  iniquities which are with them.

Leviticus 26:45

26:45 I will remember for them the covenant with their ancestors ³  whom I brought out from the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations to be their God. I am the Lord.’”

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¹ tn Heb “in” (so KJV, ASV; also later in this verse).

² tn Heb “fathers’” (also in the following verse).

³ 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).