²⁰ And Moses hearkeneth, and it is good in his eyes.

¹⁸ for a multitude of the people, many from Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, have not been cleansed, but have eaten the passover otherwise than it is written; but Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, `Jehovah, who `is' good, doth receive atonement for every one

¹⁹ who hath prepared his heart to seek God -- Jehovah, God of his fathers -- yet not according to the cleansing of the sanctuary;'

²⁰ and Jehovah hearkeneth unto Hezekiah, and healeth the people.

⁸ And there is a word of Jehovah unto Zechariah, saying:

⁹ `Thus spake Jehovah of Hosts, saying: True judgment judge ye, And kindness and mercy do one with another.

³ And he said to them, `Did ye not read what David did, when he was hungry, himself and those with him --

⁴ how he went into the house of God, and the loaves of the presentation did eat, which it is not lawful to him to eat, nor to those with him, except to the priests alone?

⁵ `Or did ye not read in the Law, that on the sabbaths the priests in the temple do profane the sabbath, and are blameless?

⁶ and I say to you, that a greater than the temple is here;

⁷ and if ye had known what is: Kindness I will, and not sacrifice -- ye had not condemned the blameless,

²⁰ a bruised reed he shall not break, and smoking flax he shall not quench, till he may put forth judgment to victory,