transgressing and denying LORD, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

Thus says LORD: Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from LORD.

But the Levites who went far from me, when Israel went astray, who went astray from me after their idols, they shall bear their iniquity.

we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from thy precepts and from thine ordinances,

Watch, brothers, lest there will be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in withdrawing from the living God.

Ye have caused

Therefore I also have made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have had respect of persons in the law.

And the sin of the young men was very great before LORD, for the men despised the offering of LORD.

For those who lead this people cause them to err, and those who are led by them are destroyed.

For my people have forgotten me. They have burned incense to FALSE [gods]. And they have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in bypaths, in a way not cast up,

For both prophet and priest are profane. Yea, in my house I have found their wickedness, says LORD.

Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.

And having answered, a certain man of the lawyers says to him, Teacher, in saying these things thou rebuke us also.

And thou have confidence in thyself to be a guide of the blind, a light of those in darkness,

It is good not to eat meats, nor to drink wine, nor in whatever thy brother stumbles against, or is caused to stumble, or becomes weak.

Ye have corrupted

My covenant of life and peace was with him. And I gave them to him that he might fear, and he feared me, and stood in awe of my name.

And he shall not profane his seed among his people, for I am LORD who sanctifies him.

Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.

General references

And the Levites shall answer, and say to all the men of Israel with a loud voice,

And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.