See in Reader
17 lines
578 B
Markdown
17 lines
578 B
Markdown
|
Yahweh is speaking about Israel.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
## They feed on the sin of my people ##
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
This refers to the fact that the priests were allowed to eat portions of the offerings that the people brought to Yahweh. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-synecdoche]])
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
## they are greedy for more of their wickedness ##
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
The priests wanted the people to sin more. (UDB)
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
## It will be the same for the people as for the priests ##
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
AT: "The people and the priests will be punished in the same way"
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
## their practices ##
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Their habits, their conduct.
|