“Acknowledge Your Unworthiness Before God”
Though there are those sins which of necessity must be confessed to the appropriate ecclesiastical officer, the instruction to Shiblon, a man of righteousness, falls in the category of petty faults with which the judges in Israel need not be troubled. Forgiveness may need to be sought from the offended party, and always from God, to whom all that is unrighteous or improper is an offense.
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