¹⁸ And I will give the men who have transgressed My covenant, who have not performed the words of the covenant which they made before Me, when ^(A)they cut the calf in two and passed between the parts of it—

¹⁰ Then he brought all these to Him and ^(A)cut them in two, down the middle, and placed each piece opposite the other; but he did not cut ^(B)the birds in two.

The Apostasy of Israel

^2 (A)“If there is found among you, within any of your ^[a]gates which the Lord your God gives you, a man or a woman who has been wicked in the sight of the Lord your God, ^(B)in transgressing His covenant,

God the Righteous Judge

A Psalm of Asaph.

^16 [a]When you have transgressed the covenant of the Lord your God, which He commanded you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed down to them, then the ^(A)anger of the Lord will burn against you, and you shall perish quickly from the good land which He has given you.”

¹¹ Israel has sinned, and they have also transgressed My covenant which I commanded them. ^(A)For they have even taken some of the ^[a]accursed things, and have both stolen and ^(B)deceived; and they have also put it among their own stuff.

¹⁷ And it came to pass, when the sun went down and it was dark, that behold, there appeared a smoking oven and a burning torch that ^(A)passed between those pieces. ¹⁸ On the same day the Lord ^(B)made a covenant with Abram, saying:

^(C)“To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates—