²⁰ And after hearing this, Moses was no longer angry.

¹⁸ For a great number of the people from Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun, had not made themselves clean, but they took the Passover meal, though not in the right way. For Hezekiah had made prayer for them, saying, May the good Lord have mercy on everyone

¹⁹ Who, with all his heart, is turned to God the Lord, the God of his fathers, even if he has not been made clean after the rules of the holy place.

²⁰ And the Lord gave ear to Hezekiah, and made the people well.

⁸ And the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, saying,

⁹ This is what the Lord of armies has said: Let your judging be upright and done in good faith, let every man have mercy and pity for his brother:

³ But he said to them, Have you no knowledge of what David did when he had need of food, and those who were with him?

⁴ How he went into the house of God and took for food the holy bread which it was not right for him or for those who were with him to take, but only for the priests?

⁵ Or is it not said in the law, how the Sabbath is broken by the priests in the Temple and they do no wrong?

⁶ But I say to you that a greater thing than the Temple is here.

⁷ But if these words had been in your minds, My desire is for mercy and not for offerings, you would not have been judging those who have done no wrong.

²⁰ The crushed stem will not be broken by him; and the feebly burning light will he not put out, till he has made righteousness overcome all.