¹¹ "Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying,

⁷ For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of Hosts.

¹⁰ and that you are to make a distinction between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean;

¹¹ and that you are to teach the children of Israel all the statutes which Yahweh has spoken to them by Moses."

⁸ If there arise a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates; then shall you arise, and go up to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose;

⁹ and you shall come to the priests the Levites, and to the judge who shall be in those days: and you shall inquire; and they shall show you the sentence of judgment.

¹⁰ You shall do according to the tenor of the sentence which they shall show you from that place which Yahweh shall choose; and you shall observe to do according to all that they shall teach you:

¹¹ according to the tenor of the law which they shall teach you, and according to the judgment which they shall tell you, you shall do; you shall not turn aside from the sentence which they shall show you, to the right hand, nor to the left.

¹⁰ They shall teach Jacob your ordinances, Israel your law: They shall put incense before you, Whole burnt offering on your altar.

²³ They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

²⁴ In a controversy they shall stand to judge; according to my ordinances shall they judge it: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts; and they shall make my Sabbaths holy.

⁹ holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.