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Leviticus 26:40 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 40. 40If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;
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Quick Meaning
This verse opens restoration through confession of present and ancestral unfaithfulness.
Read It With
- Leviticus 26:40-46
Use 26:40-46 as the reading frame for Leviticus 26:40. The verse opens restoration through confession of present and ancestral unfaithfulness, while the complete unit shows that Confession names personal and ancestral unfaithfulness, accepts covenant opposition, and leads to God's remembrance of Jacob, Isaac, Abraham, and the land without destroying or rejecting Israel utterly.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Placed here, the verse opens restoration through confession of present and ancestral unfaithfulness; Leviticus 26:40-46 supplies the actors, category, and outcome needed to interpret it.
Follow the Context
- The unit opens the particular procedure, case, scene, or instruction named “Confession and humbled hearts meet remembered covenant.”
- Confession names personal and ancestral unfaithfulness, accepts covenant opposition, and leads to God's remembrance of Jacob, Isaac, Abraham, and the land without destroying or rejecting Israel utterly.
- The unit closes with this interpretive boundary: Remembered covenant does not erase restitution, and Christian readers must not claim Israel is rejected or replaced.
What This Verse Is Not Saying
Leviticus 26:40 does not turn its distinct contribution—opens restoration through confession of present and ancestral unfaithfulness—into a free-standing rule; remembered covenant does not erase restitution, and Christian readers must not claim Israel is rejected or replaced.
What Remains True
Opens restoration through confession of present and ancestral unfaithfulness. Within Leviticus 26:40-46, this contributes to the larger claim that confession names personal and ancestral unfaithfulness, accepts covenant opposition, and leads to God's remembrance of Jacob, Isaac, Abraham, and the land without destroying or rejecting Israel utterly.
How It Can Shape Life
- When teaching Leviticus 26:40, keep the verse inside Leviticus 26:40-46. Hold this boundary: Remembered covenant does not erase restitution, and Christian readers must not claim Israel is rejected or replaced. Apply only the noncoercive truth the complete unit supports.
Teach It Back
Explain Leviticus 26:40's contribution to Leviticus 26:40-46. Name the category involved, what the surrounding verses add, any material uncertainty, and what the verse does not authorize.
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Continue in Context
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Read Leviticus 26:40-46 — Confession and humbled hearts meet remembered covenantSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? probable
Where care is needed
Interpreters disagree over treaty parallels, compositional setting, the difficult term qeri, historical referents, the relation of individual and corporate responsibility, and how later Jewish and Christian communities receive covenant sanctions. Confidence is highest in the chapter's escalating rhetoric and final remembered-covenant turn.
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Exact location: Leviticus 26:40-46, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
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Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Leviticus
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