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I will punish your descendants. When you offer an animal as a sacrifice at your festivals, I will cover your faces with its dirty bits. Then they will throw you away with all the other dirty bits. Those are the bits that I cannot accept as clean.’[a]

The Lord Almighty says, ‘When I punish you like that, you will know that I have warned you. Then the covenant that I made with Levi and his descendants, the priests, can continue.[b] I promised to give them a good life with many blessings. Levi received what I promised to him. He served me and he respected me, as a priest should do.

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Footnotes

  1. 2:3 The dirty bits of the animals were the things that were inside its stomach. Those things could not be part of the sacrifice that they offered to God. They had to take those bits away and put them on the heap of rubbish.
  2. 2:4 Levi was one of Jacob's sons. From his family, God chose the first priest, Aaron. God promised to bless the priests if they obeyed him.