¹⁸ And those who transgressed my covenant and did not keep the terms of the covenant that they made before me, I will make like^[a] the calf when they cut it in two and passed between its parts:^(A)

¹⁰ He brought him all these and cut them in two, laying each half over against the other, but he did not cut the birds in two.^(A)

Israel’s Apostasy

Psalm 50

The Acceptable Sacrifice

A Psalm of Asaph.

¹⁶ If you transgress the covenant of the Lord your God, which he enjoined on you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them, then the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you, and you shall perish quickly from the good land that he has given to you.”

¹¹ Israel has sinned; they have transgressed my covenant that I imposed on them. They have taken some of the devoted things; they have stolen, they have acted deceitfully, and they have put them among their own belongings.^(A)

² “If there is found among you, in one of your towns that the Lord your God is giving you, a man or woman who does what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God and transgresses his covenant^(A)

¹⁷ When the sun had gone down and it was dark, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.^{(A) 18} On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates,^(B)