NATIONAL CONFESSION OF SIN

9 On the twenty-fourth day of this monthp the Israelites assembled; they were fasting, wearing sackcloth, and had put dust on their heads.q 2 Those of Israelite descent separated themselves from all foreigners,r and they stoods and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their ancestors.t 3 While they stood in their places,u they read from the book of the law of the Lord their God for a fourth of the day and spent another fourth of the dayv in confessionw and worship of the Lord their God. 4 Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani stood on the raised platform built for the Levitesx and cried out loudly to the Lord their God. 5 Then the Levites—Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiahy—said, “Stand up. Blessed be the Lord your God from everlasting to everlasting.”z

Blessed be your glorious name,aa

and may it be exalted above all blessing and praise.