²⁶ Her ^(A)priests have done violence to My Law and have ^(B)profaned My holy things; they have made no ^(C)distinction between the holy and the ^[a]common, and they have not taught the difference between the ^(D)unclean and the clean; and they have closed their eyes from My Sabbaths, and I am defiled among them.

⁷ For the lips of a priest should maintain ^(A)knowledge, and people should ^(B)seek ^[a]instruction from his mouth; for he is the ^(C)messenger of the Lord of armies. ⁸ But as for you, you have turned aside from the way; you have caused many to ^(D)stumble ^[b]by the instruction; you have ^(E)ruined the covenant of Levi,” says the Lord of armies.