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● Lev 16:29 . . And this shall be a statute for ever unto you: that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls
● Lev 16:31 . . You shall afflict your souls, by a statute forever.
● Lev 23:27 . . On the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and you shall afflict your souls
● Lev 23:29 . . For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people
● Deut 27:26 . . Cursed is the man who does not uphold the words of this law by carrying them out.
Note the grammatical tense of the curse. It's present rather than future indicating that the curse is immediate-- no delay and no waiting period.
I tend to believe that curses are accumulative. In other words: every year that a Jews fails to afflict their souls on Yom Kippur, they add another curse to the indictment against them.
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