Matthew 12:5
Good News Translation
Or have you not read in the Law of Moses that every Sabbath the priests in the Temple actually break the Sabbath law, yet they are not guilty?

New Revised Standard Version
Or have you not read in the law that on the sabbath the priests in the temple break the sabbath and yet are guiltless?

Contemporary English Version
Haven't you read in the Law of Moses that the priests are allowed to work in the temple on the Sabbath? But no one says they are guilty of breaking the law of the Sabbath.

New American Bible
Or have you not read in the law that on the sabbath the priests serving in the temple violate the sabbath and are innocent?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Or have ye not read in the law, that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple break the sabbath, and are without blame?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Or have ye not read in the law, that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple break the sabbath, and are without blame?

on.

Numbers 28:9,10 And on the sabbath day you shall offer two lambs of a year old without blemish, and two tenths of flour tempered with oil in sacrifice, and the libations, . . .

John 7:22,23 Therefore, Moses gave you circumcision (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers): and on the sabbath day you circumcise a man. . . .

profane.

Nehemiah 13:17 And I rebuked the chief men of Juda, and said to them: What is this evil thing that you are doing, profaning the sabbath day:

Ezekiel 24:21 Speak to the house of Israel: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will profane my sanctuary, the glory of your realm, and the thing that your eyes desire, and for which your soul feareth: your sons, and your daughters, whom you have left, shall fall by the sword.

Context
The Lord of the Sabbath
4How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the loaves of proposition, which it was not lawful for him to eat, nor for them that were with him, but for the priests only? 5Or have ye not read in the law, that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple break the sabbath, and are without blame? 6But I tell you that there is here a greater than the temple.…
Cross References
Leviticus 24:8
Every sabbath they shall be changed before the Lord: being received of the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant.

Matthew 12:4
How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the loaves of proposition, which it was not lawful for him to eat, nor for them that were with him, but for the priests only?

Matthew 12:6
But I tell you that there is here a greater than the temple.

Matthew 12:4
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