"But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the LORD of hosts."
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Neither shall he profane his seed among his people: for I the LORD do sanctify him.
Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: ye make the LORD's people to transgress.
Wherefore the LORD God of Israel saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now the LORD saith, Be it far from me; for them that honor me I will honor, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught me.
For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.
Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.
O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.
For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD.
We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:
Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.
Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.
Then answered one of the lawyers, and said unto him, Master, thus saying thou reproachest us also.
And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,
It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.
Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the LORD: for men abhorred the offering of the LORD.
Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.
And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Israel went astray, which went astray away from me after their idols; they shall even bear their iniquity.
My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him for the fear wherewith he feared me, and was afraid before my name.
Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up;
But you are turned out of the way; you have made the law hard for numbers of people; you have made the agreement of Levi of no value, says the Lord of armies.
But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith Jehovah of hosts.
But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.
But ye have departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.
But you have turned aside out of the way. You have caused many to stumble in the law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi," says Yahweh of Hosts.
And ye, ye have turned from the way, Ye have caused many to stumble in the law, Ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, Said Jehovah of Hosts.