His watchmen are blind; they are all ignorant; they are all dumb dogs who cannot bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.

Woe to you, blind guides, who say, Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple is a debtor.

Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gold or the temple that sanctifies the gold?

Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that sanctifies the gift?

An overseer then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober- minded, well ordered, hospitable, able to teach;

not a drunkard, not violent, not greedy for money, but fair-minded, not quarrelsome, not loving money;

Moreover he must have a good testimony with those who are outside, that he not fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

For an overseer must be blameless, as a steward of God, not self-willed, not prone to anger, not given to wine, not quarrelsome, not greedy for money,

For there are many insubordinate, idle talkers and seducers, especially those of the circumcision,

A bull or a lamb that has anything deformed or dwarfed you may offer as a freewill offering, but for a vow it shall not be accepted.