“ The Lord of armies says this:‘ Now ask the priests for a ruling:

“万军之耶和华如此说：你要向祭司问律法，

“万军之耶和华如此说，你要向祭司请教律法，说：

“万军之耶和华如此说，你要向祭司请教律法，说：

“万军之耶和华说，‘你去问祭司，

“万军之耶和华这样说：你要向祭司询问有关律法的事说：

萬軍之耶和華如此說：「你要向祭司問律法，

「萬軍之耶和華如此說，你要向祭司請教律法，說：

「萬軍之耶和華如此說，你要向祭司請教律法，說：

「萬軍之耶和華說，『你去問祭司，

“萬軍之耶和華這樣說：你要向祭司詢問有關律法的事說：

『萬軍之永恆主這麼說：你要向祭司問禮節的規矩說：

萬軍之耶和華云、問法律於祭司曰、

萬有之主耶和華曰、當問法於祭司曰、

萬有之主如是云、當問法於祭司、

“ This is what the Lord Almighty says:‘ Ask the priests what the law says:

The Lord who rules over all speaks. He says,“ Ask the priests what the law says.

“ Thus says the Lord of hosts: Ask the priests about the law:

“ This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says. Ask the priests this question about the law:

“ This is what the LORD of Armies says: Ask the priests for a ruling.

“ Thus says the Lord of hosts:‘ Now, ask the priests concerning the law, saying,

Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying,

“ This is what the Lord of Hosts says: Ask the priests for a ruling.

Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ask now the priests[ concerning] the law, saying,

“ The LORD who rules over all says,‘ Ask the priests about the law.

“ Yahweh of Armies says: Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying,

For the lips of a priest should maintain knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth; for he is the messenger of the Lord of armies.

and to make a distinction between the holy and the profane, and between the unclean and the clean,and so as to teach the sons of Israel all the statutes which the Lord has spoken to them through Moses.”

Moreover, they shall teach My people the difference between the holy and the common, and teach them to distinguish between the unclean and the clean.In a dispute they shall take their stand to judge; they shall judge it according to My ordinances. They shall also keep My laws and My statutes in all My appointed feasts, and sanctify My Sabbaths.

They will teach Your ordinances to Jacob, And Your Law to Israel. They shall put incense before You, And whole burnt offerings on Your altar.

holding firmly the faithful word which is in accordance with the teaching, so that he will be able both to exhort in sound doctrine and to refute those who contradict it.

“ If a case is too difficult for you to decide, between one kind of homicide or another, between one kind of lawsuit or another, and between one kind of assault or another, that are cases of dispute in your courts, then you shall arise and go up to the place which the Lord your God chooses.So you shall come to the Levitical priests or the judge who is in office in those days, and you shall inquire of them and they will declare to you the verdict.Then you shall act in accordance with the terms of the verdict which they declare to you from that place which the Lord chooses; and you shall be careful to act in accordance with everything that they instruct you to do.In accordance with the terms of the law about which they instruct you, and in accordance with the verdict which they tell you, you shall act; you shall not turn aside from the word which they declare to you, to the right or the left.