For whoever it is who shall not deny himself in that same day; shall be cut off from his people.
Parallel translations
- KJV For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.
- BSB If anyone does not humble himself on this day, he must be cut off from his people.
- NKJV For any person who is not afflicted in soul on that same day shall be cut off from his people.
- NASB If there is any person who does not humble himself on this very day, he shall be cut off from his people.
- NLT All who do not deny themselves that day will be cut off from God’s people.
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Anyone who does not humble himself on that day will be cut off from his people.
Overview
Refusing to observe the day in repentance brought the severe penalty of being cut off from the covenant community. Atonement was not optional; to spurn it was to spurn God's provided way of mercy. This warns that there is no standing with God for those who reject His appointed means of atonement, ultimately found in Christ (Hebrews 10:26-29).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Gen 17:14The uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people. He has broken my covenant.”
- Lev 23:27“However on the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement: it shall be a holy convocation to you, and you shall afflict yourselves; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
- Lev 23:32It shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for you, and you shall deny yourselves. In the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you shall keep your Sabbath.”
- Num 5:2“Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp every leper, and everyone who has an issue, and whoever is unclean by the dead.
- Jer 31:9They shall come with weeping; and with petitions will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
- Isa 22:12In that day, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, called to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth:
- Ezek 7:16But those of those who escape will escape, and will be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, everyone in his iniquity.
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