7 For the lips of a priest should safeguard knowledge, and people should seek the law* from his mouth,+ because he is the messenger of Jehovah of armies.

8 “But you yourselves have turned aside from the way. You have made many stumble with regard to the law.*+ You have ruined the covenant of Leʹvi,”+ says Jehovah of armies.

3 In reply he said to them: “Why do you overstep the commandment of God because of your tradition?+

6 he need not honor his father at all.’ So you have made the word of God invalid because of your tradition.+