Transgressing, and lying against Jehovah, And removing from after our God, Speaking oppression and apostasy, Conceiving and uttering from the heart Words of falsehood.

Thus said Jehovah: Cursed is the man who doth trust in man, And hath made flesh his arm, And from Jehovah whose heart turneth.

but -- the Levites who have gone far off from me, in the wandering of Israel when they went astray from Me after their idols, and they have borne their iniquity.

we have sinned, and done perversely, and done wickedly, and rebelled, to turn aside from Thy commands, and from Thy judgments:

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

Ye have caused

And I also, I have made you despised and low before all the people, Because ye are not keeping My ways, And are accepting persons in the law.

And the sin of the young men is very great in the presence of Jehovah, for the men have despised the offering of Jehovah.

And the eulogists of this people are causing to err, And its eulogised ones are consumed.

But My people have forgotten Me, to a vain thing they make perfume, And they cause them to stumble in their ways -- paths of old, To walk in paths -- a way not raised up,

For both prophet and priest have been profane, Yea, in My house I found their wickedness, An affirmation of Jehovah.

'Wherefore do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they do not wash their hands when they may eat bread.'

And one of the lawyers answering, saith to him, 'Teacher, these things saying, us also thou dost insult;'

and hast confidence that thou thyself art a leader of blind ones, a light of those in darkness,

Right it is not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything in which thy brother doth stumble, or is made to fall, or is weak.

Ye have corrupted

My covenant hath been with him of life and of peace, And I make them to him a fear, and he doth fear Me, And because of My name he hath been affrighted.

and he doth not pollute his seed among his people; for I am Jehovah, sanctifying him.'

Be mindful of them, O my God, for the redeemed of the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.

General references

And the Levites have answered and said unto every man of Israel -- a loud voice:

'And My people they direct between holy and common, and between unclean and clean they cause them to discern.