“Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.”
The gathering of the people—the old and the young, children, and nursing infants—indicates that the repentance must involve the entire community across all age groups, that no one is exempt from the requirement to turn. The bride and bridegroom even leaving the chamber indicates that nothing takes precedence over the urgency of communal repentance. This verse emphasizes the totality of the communal requirement to return.
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