Transgressing and lying against Jehovah, and departing from after our God, speaking violence and apostasy, they conceived and muttered from the heart words of falsehood.

Thus said Jehovah: Cursed the man who shall trust in man, and set flesh his arm, and shall turn away his heart from Jehovah.

But the Levites who went far off from me, in the going astray of Israel who went astray from me after the blocks; and they bare their iniquity.

We sinned, and we did iniquity, and were evil, and rebelled, and departing from thy commands and from thy judgments.

See, brethren, lest there shall be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in removing away from the living God.

Ye have caused

And also I set you despised and low to all the people, according as ye watch not my way, and lift up the face against the law.

And the sin of the boys will be exceedingly great before Jehovah, for the men despised the gifts of Jehovah.

And there will be those leading this people causing them to wander; and those being led being swallowed up.

Because my people forgat me they will burn incense in vain; by their ways they will cause the paths of old to fail, to go beaten paths, a way not cast up;

For also the prophets, also the priests were polluted; also in my house I found their evil, says Jehovah.

Wherefore do thy disciples pass by the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.

And a certain of the skilled in the law having answered, said, Teacher, speaking these things, and thou injurest us.

And art persuaded thou thyself to be a guide of the blind, a light of them in darkness,

Good not to eat flesh, nor drink wine, nor in what thy brother stumbles, or is offended, or is weak.

Ye have corrupted

My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I will give them to him fearing, and he shall fear me, and from the face of my name he was terrified.

And he shall not profane his seed among his people; for I Jehovah consecrating him.

Remember to them, O my God, for the pollutions of the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.

General references

And the Levites answered and said to every man of Israel in a high voice,

And they shall point out to my people between the holy to the profane, and they shall cause them to know between the unclean to the clean.