27 Then the king of Assyria commanded, “Send there one of the priests whom you carried away from there, and let him¹ go and dwell there and ^hteach them the law of the god of the land.” 28 So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and lived in Bethel and taught them how they should fear the Lord.

3 For a long time Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest and without law,

8 They read from the book, from the Law of God, ^cclearly,¹ and they gave the sense, so that the people understood the reading.

23 They shall teach my people the ^ldifference between the holy and the common, and show them how to distinguish between the unclean and the clean.

7 For the ^xlips of a priest should guard knowledge, and people¹ should seek instruction from his mouth, for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.