⁸ But you have turned aside from the way. ^(A)You have caused many to stumble by your instruction. You have corrupted ^(B)the covenant of Levi, says the Lord of hosts,

¹² Therefore say, ^(A)‘Behold, I give to him my covenant of peace, ¹³ and it shall be to him and to ^(B)his descendants after him the covenant of ^(C)a perpetual priesthood, because he was jealous for his God and made atonement for the people of Israel.’”

^29 (A)Remember them, O my God, because they have desecrated the priesthood ^(B)and the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites.

^45 (A)“Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the people of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle. The Levites shall be mine: I am the Lord.