A son honoureth {his} father, and a servant his master: if then I {be} a father, where {is} mine honour? and if I {be} a master, where {is} my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?

But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the LORD of hosts. {stumble at: or, fall in}

Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme, the child also {that is} born unto thee shall surely die.

That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the {same} maid, to profane my holy name: {maid: or, young woman}

Ye said also, Behold, what a weariness {is it}! and ye have snuffed at it, saith the LORD of hosts; and ye brought {that which was} torn, and the lame, and the sick; thus ye brought an offering: should I accept this of your hand? saith the LORD. {and ye have...: or, whereas ye might have blown it away}

And the mixt multitude that {was} among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat? {fell...: Heb. lusted a lust} {wept...: Heb. returned and wept}

But I had pity for mine holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the heathen, whither they went.

Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which {was} at Jerusalem; and the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them.

For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.

Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD {is} contemptible. {offer...: or, bring unto, etc}

And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy {it} of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing. So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

The altar of wood {was} three cubits high, and the length thereof two cubits; and the corners thereof, and the length thereof, and the walls thereof, {were} of wood: and he said unto me, This {is} the table that {is} before the LORD.

They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister unto me, and they shall keep my charge.

And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through {the fire} to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I {am} the LORD. {Molech: Gr. Moloch}

In that ye have brought {into my sanctuary} strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, {even} my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations. {strangers: Heb. children of a stranger}

Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.

Neither from a stranger's hand shall ye offer the bread of your God of any of these; because their corruption {is} in them, {and} blemishes {be} in them: they shall not be accepted for you.

He made also ten tables, and placed {them} in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. And he made an hundred basons of gold. {basons: or, bowls}

Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded {in my} habitation; and honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?

Whose end {is} destruction, whose God {is their} belly, and {whose} glory {is} in their shame, who mind earthly things.)

And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?

And he answering said to {his} father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends:

One basket {had} very good figs, {even} like the figs {that are} first ripe: and the other basket {had} very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad. {they...: Heb. for badness}

And he made the table {of} shittim wood: two cubits {was} the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof:

And the priest shall burn it upon the altar: {it is} the food of the offering made by fire unto the LORD.

And it shall be Aaron's and his sons'; and they shall eat it in the holy place: for it {is} most holy unto him of the offerings of the LORD made by fire by a perpetual statute.

Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, My offering, {and} my bread for my sacrifices made by fire, {for} a sweet savour unto me, shall ye observe to offer unto me in their due season. {a sweet...: Heb. a savour of my rest}

And Solomon made all the vessels that {pertained} unto the house of the LORD: the altar of gold, and the table of gold, whereupon the shewbread {was},

And king David said to Ornan, Nay; but I will verily buy it for the full price: for I will not take {that} which {is} thine for the LORD, nor offer burnt offerings without cost.

And thou shalt set upon the table shewbread before me alway.

But ye turned and polluted my name, and caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom ye had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection, to be unto you for servants and for handmaids.

And in the porch of the gate {were} two tables on this side, and two tables on that side, to slay thereon the burnt offering and the sin offering and the trespass offering.

Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed: