^11 (A)and that you may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the Lord has spoken to them by the hand of Moses.”

^20 (A)teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am ^(B)with you always, even to the end of the age.” ^[a]Amen.

⁸ So they read distinctly from the book, in the Law of God; and they gave the sense, and helped them to understand the reading.

² So Ezra the priest brought ^(A)the Law before the assembly of men and women and all who could hear with understanding ^(B)on the first day of the seventh month.

Jeremiah Persecuted

¹⁸ Then they said, ^(A)“Come and let us devise plans against Jeremiah; ^(B)for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come and let us attack him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.”

⁸ “Take heed in ^(A)an outbreak of leprosy, that you carefully observe and do according to all that the priests, the Levites, shall teach you; just as I commanded them, so you shall be careful to do.

² for you know what commandments we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

²⁷ For I have not ^[a]shunned to declare to you ^(A)the whole counsel of God.