Now therefore make confession unto the LORD God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives.

现在当向耶和华你们列祖的神认罪，遵行他的旨意，离绝这些国的民和外邦的女子。

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I have a confession to make.

我要作个坦白。

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The motive for confession is penitential or therapeutic—by speaking openly about personal guilt and suffering, the poet hopes to make them easier to bear.

忏悔的动机是赎罪或治疗：诗人希望通过公开谈论个人的罪行和痛苦，让自己更容易接受它们。

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Now I want to make another confession, though I'd rather think of it as sharing a revelation.

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Today he claims to have made the figure up in order to make his confession appear more credible.

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She claimed her husband and his family forced her to make the confession and that he was the killer.

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