Matthew 23:17

Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.”

A senseless man doesn’t know, neither does a fool understand this:

‘If someone carries holy meat in the fold of his garment, and with his fold touches bread, stew, wine, oil, or any food, will it become holy?’ ” The priests answered, “No.”

“If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you,

“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’

You shall anoint the altar of burnt offering, with all its vessels, and sanctify the altar, and the altar will be most holy.

You blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel!

You foolish one, that which you yourself sow is not made alive unless it dies.

but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.

You shall sanctify them, that they may be most holy. Whatever touches them shall be holy.

Every male among the children of Aaron shall eat of it, as their portion forever throughout your generations, from the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. Whoever touches them shall be holy.’ ”

Whatever shall touch its flesh shall be holy. When there is any of its blood sprinkled on a garment, you shall wash that on which it was sprinkled in a holy place.

For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.

The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib; but Israel doesn’t know. My people don’t consider.”

When they go out into the outer court, even into the outer court to the people, they shall put off their garments in which they minister, and lay them in the holy rooms. They shall put on other garments, that they not sanctify the people with their garments.

“Woe to you, you blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated.’

You blind fools! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?

You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter, that its outside may become clean also.

But above all things, my brothers, don’t swear— not by heaven, or by the earth, or by any other oath; but let your “yes” be “yes”, and your “no”, “no”, so that you don’t fall into hypocrisy.

God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

“You shall do so to Aaron and to his sons, according to all that I have commanded you. You shall consecrate them seven days.

Seven days you shall make atonement for the altar, and sanctify it; and the altar shall be most holy. Whatever touches the altar shall be holy.

The incense which you shall make, according to its composition you shall not make for yourselves: it shall be to you holy for Yahweh.

He made the altar of incense of acacia wood. It was square: its length was a cubit, and its width a cubit. Its height was two cubits. Its horns were of one piece with it.

He put the golden altar in the Tent of Meeting before the veil;

That which is left of the meal offering shall be Aaron’s and his sons’. It is a most holy part of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire.

It shall not be baked with yeast. I have given it as their portion of my offerings made by fire. It is most holy, as are the sin offering and the trespass offering.

He sprinkled it on the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its vessels, and the basin and its base, to sanctify them.

“ ‘When he who has a discharge is cleansed of his discharge, then he shall count to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes; and he shall bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean.

For whatever man he is that has a defect, he shall not draw near: a blind man, or a lame, or he who has a flat nose, or any deformity,

On the day that Moses had finished setting up the tabernacle, and had anointed it and sanctified it with all its furniture, and the altar with all its vessels, and had anointed and sanctified them;

They fell on their faces, and said, “God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?”

When a man vows a vow to Yahweh, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word. He shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.

The priest shall take the basket out of your hand, and set it down before Yahweh your God’s altar.

Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

The arrogant will not stand in your sight. You hate all workers of iniquity.

The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done abominable deeds. There is no one who does good.

he who fashions all of their hearts; and he considers all of their works.

The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

The princess inside is all glorious. Her clothing is interwoven with gold.

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on God?

I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.

Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?

“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?

You simple, understand prudence! You fools, be of an understanding heart!

Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

For, behold, Yahweh comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth also will disclose her blood, and will no longer cover her slain.

When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.

For, behold, darkness will cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but Yahweh will arise on you, and his glory shall be seen on you.

‘Hear this now, foolish people without understanding, who have eyes, and don’t see, who have ears, and don’t hear:

But they are together brutish and foolish, instructed by idols! It is just wood.

Your prophets have seen false and foolish visions for you. They have not uncovered your iniquity, to reverse your captivity, but have seen for you false revelations and causes of banishment.

The Lord Yahweh says, “Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!

“Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.

Yahweh said to me, “Take for yourself yet again the equipment of a foolish shepherd.

Woe to the worthless shepherd who leaves the flock! The sword will be on his arm, and on his right eye. His arm will be completely withered, and his right eye will be totally blinded!”

A revelation, Yahweh’s word concerning Israel. Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says:

He called all the multitude to himself, and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand.

He asked them, “Don’t you understand yet?”

You foolish ones, didn’t he who made the outside make the inside also?

They answered that they didn’t know where it was from.

He said to them, “Foolish men, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!

There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.

Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision that he is a debtor to do the whole law.

For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,