8 “Be on your guard in the plague of leprosy+ to take good care and do according to all that the priests, the Levites, will instruct YOU.+ Just as I have commanded them, YOU should be careful+ to do.

9 And they began teaching+ in Judah, and with them there was the book of Jehovah’s law;+ and they kept going around through all the cities of Judah and teaching among the people.

8 And they continued reading+ aloud from the book, from the law of the [true] God, it being expounded,* and there being a putting* of meaning [into it]; and they continued giving understanding in the reading.+

18 And they proceeded to say: “Come, men, and let us think out against Jeremiah some thoughts,+ for the law will not perish from the priest+ or counsel from the wise one or the word from the prophet.+ Come and let us strike him with the tongue,+ and let us pay no attention to any of his words.”

7 For the lips of a priest are the ones that should keep knowledge, and [the] law is what people should seek from his mouth;+ for he is the messenger* of Jehovah of armies.+