HUMILIATION AND SELF-AFFLICTION

Passages on this topic · 14

• Leviticus 16:29

  “It shall be a statute to you forever: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and shall do no kind of work, the native-born, or the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you:

• Leviticus 16:30

  for on this day shall atonement be made for you, to cleanse you; from all your sins you shall be clean before Yahweh.

• Leviticus 16:31

  It is a Sabbath of solemn rest to you, and you shall afflict your souls. It is a statute forever.

• Leviticus 23:26

  Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

• Leviticus 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.

• Leviticus 23:28

  You shall do no kind of work in that same day; for it is a day of atonement, to make atonement for you before Yahweh your God.

• Leviticus 23:29

  For whoever it is who shall not deny himself in that same day; shall be cut off from his people.

• Leviticus 23:30

  Whoever it is who does any kind of work in that same day, that person I will destroy from among his people.

• Leviticus 23:31

  You shall do no kind of work: it is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

• Leviticus 23:32

  It 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.”

• 2 Chronicles 7:14

  if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

• Ezra 8:21

  Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a straight way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our possessions.

• Ezra 8:22

  For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy on the way, because we had spoken to the king, saying, “The hand of our God is on all those who seek him, for good; but his power and his wrath is against all those who forsake him.”

• Ezra 8:23

  So we fasted and begged our God for this: and he granted our request.