¹¹ and ^(A)you are to teach the people of Israel all the statutes that the Lord has spoken to them by Moses.”

²⁰ teaching them ^(A)to observe all that ^(B)I have commanded you. And behold, ^(C)I am with you always, to ^(D)the end of the age.”

⁷ For ^(A)the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and people^[a] should seek instruction from his mouth, for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.

⁸ They read from the book, from the Law of God, clearly,^[a] and they gave the sense, so that the people understood the reading.

² So Ezra the priest ^(A)brought the Law before the assembly, both men and women and all who could understand what they heard, ^(B)on the first day of the seventh month.

¹⁸ Then they said, ^(A)“Come, let us make plots against Jeremiah, ^(B)for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. ^(C)Come, let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not pay attention to any of his words.”

⁸ “Take care, in ^(A)a case of leprous^[a] disease, to be very careful to do according to all that the Levitical priests shall direct you. As I commanded them, so you shall be careful to do.

² For ^(A)you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

²⁷ for ^(A)I did not shrink from declaring to you ^(B)the whole counsel of God.