For whosoever shall do any of these abominations, the souls that do them shall be destroyed from among their people.

And I will set My face against that man, and will cut him off from his people, because he has given of his seed to Moloch, to defile My sanctuary, and profane the name of them that are consecrated to Me.

And whatever soul either of the natives or of the strangers shall do anything with a presumptuous hand, he will provoke God; that soul shall be cut off from his people,

for he has despised the word of the Lord, and broken His commands; that soul shall be utterly destroyed, his sin [is] upon him.

For if you shall turn aside and attach yourselves to these nations that are left with you, and make marriages with them, and become mingled with them and they with you,

know that the Lord will no more destroy these nations from before you; and they will be to you snares and stumbling blocks, and nails in your heels, and darts in your eyes, until you are destroyed from off this good land, which the Lord your God has given you.

Behold, the days come when I will destroy your seed, and the seed of your father's house.

And if I do not destroy a man of yours from My altar, [it shall be] that his eyes may fail and his soul may perish; and everyone that remains in your house shall fall by the sword of men.

And they also cast lots for the daily courses, for the great and the small [of them], of the perfect ones and the learners.

And there were found [some] of the sons of the priests who had taken strange wives: of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadek, and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah.

And they pledged themselves to put away their wives, and [offered] a ram of the flock for a trespass offering because of their trespass.

And Elishub the high priest, [one] of the sons of Joiada, son-in-law of Sanballat the Horonite, I chased away from me.

Remember them, O God, for their [false] connection with the priesthood, and [the breaking] the covenant of the priesthood, and [for defiling] the Levites.

So the Lord took away from Israel the head and tail, great and small, in one day;

And they that pronounce this people blessed shall mislead them; and they mislead them that they may devour them.

Behold, the Lord is about to lay waste the world, and will make it desolate, and will lay bare its surface, and scatter them that dwell therein.

And the people shall be as the priest, and the servant as the lord, and the maid as the mistress; the buyer shall be as the seller, the lender as the borrower, and the debtor as his creditor.

And they shall bear their iniquity according to the trespass of him that asks; and it shall be in like manner to the prophet according to the trespass,

that neither anyone may plead, nor any one reprove [another]; but My people are as a priest spoken against.

Therefore they shall fall by day, and the prophet with you shall fall: I have compared your mother unto night.

Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. And if the blind guides the blind, both will fall into a ditch."

But evil men and impostors shall advance worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

Then the Beast was apprehended, and with him the False Prophet who had performed the signs before him, by which he had deceived those who received the mark of the Beast and those who worshipped his image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire burning with brimstone.

How wonderful [are] your tents, O Jacob, and your dwellings, O Israel!

And the Lord shall save the tabernacles of Judah as at the beginning, that the boast of the house of David, and the pride of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, may not magnify themselves against Judah.

Have you not all one Father? Did not one God create you? Why have you forsaken every man his brother, to profane the covenant of your fathers?

And it was so after some time that Cain brought a sacrifice to the Lord of the fruits of the earth.

but Cain and his sacrifices He regarded not, and Cain was exceedingly sorrowful and his countenance fell.

And [it shall] not [go on] so; I have sworn to the house of Eli, the iniquity of the house of Eli shall not be atoned for with incense or sacrifices forever.

And Samuel said, Does the Lord take [as great] pleasure in whole burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in hearing the words of the Lord? Behold, obedience is better than a good sacrifice, and hearkening than the fat of rams.

For sin is as divination; idols bring on pain and grief. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, the Lord also shall reject you from being king over Israel.

For I am the Lord who loves righteousness, and hate robberies of injustice; and I will give their labor to the just, and will make an everlasting covenant with them.

But the transgressor that sacrifices a calf to Me, is as he that kills a dog; and he that offers fine flour, as [one that offers] swine's blood; he that gives frankincense for a memorial, is as a blasphemer. Yet they have chosen their own ways, and their soul has delighted in their abominations.

Wherefore if you should bring Me your whole burnt sacrifices and grain offerings, I will not accept them, neither will I have respect to your grand peace offerings.