⁵ Or haven’t you read in the Law that the priests on Sabbath duty in the temple desecrate the Sabbath^(A) and yet are innocent?

Sabbath Offerings

⁹ “‘On the Sabbath^(A) day, make an offering of two lambs a year old without defect,^(B) together with its drink offering and a grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah^[a](C) of the finest flour mixed with olive oil.^{(D) 10} This is the burnt offering for every Sabbath,^(E) in addition to the regular burnt offering^(F) and its drink offering.

²² Yet, because Moses gave you circumcision^(A) (though actually it did not come from Moses, but from the patriarchs),^(B) you circumcise a boy on the Sabbath. ²³ Now if a boy can be circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses may not be broken, why are you angry with me for healing a man’s whole body on the Sabbath?

¹⁷ I rebuked the nobles of Judah and said to them, “What is this wicked thing you are doing—desecrating the Sabbath day?

²¹ Say to the people of Israel, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am about to desecrate my sanctuary^(A)—the stronghold in which you take pride,^(B) the delight of your eyes,^(C) the object of your affection. The sons and daughters^(D) you left behind will fall by the sword.^(E)