Isaiah 28:9-11

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⁹“Who is it he is trying to teach?^(A)
    To whom is he explaining his message?^(B)
To children weaned^(C) from their milk,^(D)
    to those just taken from the breast?
¹⁰For it is:
    Do this, do that,
    a rule for this, a rule for that^[a];
    a little here, a little there.^(E)”

¹¹Very well then, with foreign lips and strange tongues^(F)
God will speak to this people,^(G)

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Footnotes

Isaiah 28:10 Hebrew / sav lasav sav lasav / kav lakav kav lakav (probably meaningless sounds mimicking the prophet’s words); also in verse 13

1 Corinthians 3:2

New International Version

²I gave you milk, not solid food,^(A) for you were not yet ready for it.^(B) Indeed, you are still not ready.

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1 Corinthians 3:2 in all English translations

Hebrews 5:11-14

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Warning Against Falling Away^(A)

¹¹We have much to say about this, but it is hard to make it clear to you because you no longer try to understand. ¹²In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths^(B) of God’s word all over again. You need milk, not solid food!^(C) ¹³Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant,^(D) is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. ¹⁴But solid food is for the mature,^(E) who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil.^(F)