And I strove with the commanders, and said, Why has the house of God been abandoned? And I assembled them, and set them in their place.

And I strove with the free children of Judah, and said to them, What [is] this evil thing which you do, and profane the Sabbath day?

so they that forsake the law praise ungodliness; but they that love the law fortify themselves with a wall.

And I shook out my garment, and said, So may God shake out every man who shall not keep to this word, from his house, and from his labors, he shall be even thus shaken out, as an outcast and empty. And all the congregation said, Amen, and they praised the Lord; and the people did this thing.

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

Cursed is the man that dishonors his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, So be it.

Cursed is he that makes the blind to wander in the way. And all the people shall say, So be it.

Cursed is he that lies with his father's wife, because he has uncovered his father's skirt: and all the people shall say, So be it.

Cursed is he that lies with his sister by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, So be it.

Cursed is he that attacks his neighbor secretly. And all the people shall say, So be it.

Cursed is every man that continues not in all the words of this law, to do them. And all the people shall say, So be it.

In his sight an evil worker is set at nought, but he honors them that fear the Lord. He swears to his neighbor, and disappoints [him] not.

Then one of the lawyers answered and said to Him, "Teacher, by saying these things You insult us also."

And He said, "Woe to you lawyers as well! Because you load men with burdens hard to bear, and you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers.

then it shall come to pass, if the unrighteous should be worthy of stripes, you shall lay him down before the judges, and they shall scourge him before them according to his iniquity.

And they shall scourge him with forty stripes in number, they shall not inflict more; for if you should scourge him [with] more stripes beyond these stripes, your brother will be disgraced before you.

And whosoever shall not do the law of God, and the law of the king readily, judgment shall be taken upon him, whether for death or for chastisement, or for a fine of his property, or casting into prison.

I gave my back to scourges, and my cheeks to blows; and I turned not away my face from the shame of spitting;

were urgent with their brothers, and bound them under a curse, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in the law of God, which was given by the hand of Moses, the servant of God; to keep and to do all the commandments of the Lord, and His judgments, and His ordinances.

And that we will not, [they said], give our daughters to the people of the land, nor will we take their daughters to our sons.

You shall fear the Lord your God, and Him only shall you serve; and you shall cleave to Him, and by His name you shall swear.

And they entered into a covenant, that they should seek the Lord God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul.

And they swore to the Lord with a loud voice, and with trumpets, and with cornets.

Then Ezra arose, and caused the rulers, the priests, the Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they would do according to this word. And they swore.

and you should take of their daughters to your sons, and you should give of your daughters to their sons; and your daughters should go a whoring after their gods, and your sons should go a whoring after their gods.

neither shall you contract marriages with them; you shall not give your daughter to his son, and you shall not take his daughter to your son.