²⁷ At the end of these days, from the eighth day^(A) on, the priests are to present your burnt offerings^(B) and fellowship offerings^(C) on the altar. Then I will accept you, declares the Sovereign Lord.”

⁴⁰ For on my holy mountain, the high mountain of Israel,^(A) declares the Sovereign Lord, there in the land all the people of Israel will serve me, and there I will accept them. There I will require your offerings^(B) and your choice gifts,^[a] along with all your holy sacrifices.^{(C) 41} I will accept you as fragrant incense^(D) when I bring you out from the nations and gather^(E) you from the countries where you have been scattered, and I will be proved holy^(F) through you in the sight of the nations.^(G)

²³ Your Majesty, Araunah^[a] gives^(A) all this to the king.” Araunah also said to him, “May the Lord your God accept you.”

⁸ Therefore, anyone who rejects this instruction does not reject a human being but God, the very God who gives you his Holy Spirit.^(A)

¹⁶ “Whoever listens to you listens to me; whoever rejects you rejects me; but whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me.”^(A)

¹⁰ But when you enter a town and are not welcomed, go into its streets and say, ¹¹ ‘Even the dust of your town we wipe from our feet as a warning to you.^(A) Yet be sure of this: The kingdom of God has come near.’^{(B) 12} I tell you, it will be more bearable on that day for Sodom^(C) than for that town.^(D)

¹⁴ If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, leave that home or town and shake the dust off your feet.^{(A) 15} Truly I tell you, it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah^(B) on the day of judgment^(C) than for that town.^(D)

⁸ When you offer blind animals for sacrifice, is that not wrong? When you sacrifice lame or diseased animals,^(A) is that not wrong? Try offering them to your governor! Would he be pleased^(B) with you? Would he accept you?” says the Lord Almighty.^(C)

⁹ “Now plead with God to be gracious to us. With such offerings^(D) from your hands, will he accept^(E) you?”—says the Lord Almighty.

¹⁰ “Oh, that one of you would shut the temple doors,^(F) so that you would not light useless fires on my altar! I am not pleased^(G) with you,” says the Lord Almighty, “and I will accept^(H) no offering^(I) from your hands.