For whoever does any of these abominations, the persons who do them shall be cut off from among their people.

I will set My face against that man, and will cut him off from his people, because he has given his seed to Molech, to defile My sanctuary and profane My holy name.

But the soul who does anything loftily, whether he is a native or a sojourner, that one blasphemes Jehovah, and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

Because he has despised the Word of Jehovah, and has broken His commandment, that soul shall be cut down to be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him.

But if you turn back, to go away and cleave to the remnant of the nations; these that remain among you; and make marriages with them, and go in to them and they to you,

know and understand that Jehovah your God will no longer dispossess these nations before you. But they shall be snares and traps to you, and scourges on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land which Jehovah your God has given to you.

Behold, the days are coming that I will cut off your arm and the arm of your father's house, so that there shall not be an old man in your house.

And any of your men whom I do not cut off from My altar shall be to consume your eyes and grieve your soul. And all the increase of your house shall die as young men.

And they cast lots for their duties, small and great, teacher and scholar.

And among the sons of the priests who had dwelt with foreign women, the following were found of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah.

And they gave their hands that they would put away their women; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their sin.

And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite; therefore I drove him from me.

Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites.

Therefore Jehovah will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and bulrush, in one day.

For the leaders of this people lead them astray; and those who are led by them are swallowed up.

Behold, Jehovah empties the earth and makes it bare, and distorts its face, and scatters its inhabitants.

And as it is with the people, so it shall be with the priest; as with the servant, so with the master; as with the maid, so it is with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the creditor, so with the debtor.

And they shall bear their iniquity; the punishment of the prophet shall be the same as the punishment of the one who inquired,

Yet let no man strive with nor reprove another man. For your people are like those who strive with a priest.

Therefore you shall stumble in the day, and the prophet also shall stumble with you at night, and I will destroy your mother.

Let them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind leads the blind, both will fall into the ditch.

But evil men and pretenders will grow worse and worse, leading astray and being led astray.

And the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who worked signs in his presence, by which he led astray those who received the mark of the beast and those who did homage to his image. These two were cast alive into the Lake of Fire burning with brimstone.

How delightful are your tents, O Jacob! Your dwellings, O Israel!

Jehovah also shall save the tents of Judah first, so that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem may not be magnified above Judah.

Is there not one father to us all? Has not one Mighty God created us? Why do we act deceitfully each man with his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?

And at the end of so many days it came to pass that Cain brought an offering of the fruit of the ground unto Jehovah.

but He did not have regard for Cain and his offering. And Cain's anger burned greatly, and his countenance fell.

And therefore I have sworn to the house of Eli that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be atoned for by sacrifice or offering forever.

And Samuel said: Has Jehovah as great a delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in to obey the voice of Jehovah? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed than the fat of rams.

For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the Word of Jehovah, He also has rejected you from being king.

For I, Jehovah, love justice; I hate stolen things for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

He who kills an ox is as if he killed a man; he who sacrifices a lamb is as if he broke a dog's neck; he who offers an offering is as if he offered swine's blood; he who burns incense is as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations.

Though you offer Me burnt offerings and your grain offerings, I will not be pleased; nor will I regard the peace offerings of your fat animals.