Matthew 12:5 - The Scriptures 1998

⁵ “Or did you not read in the Torah that on the Sabbath the priests in the Set-apart Place profane the Sabbath, and are blameless?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ Or have you never read in the Law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple violate the sanctity of the Sabbath [breaking it] and yet are guiltless? [Num. 28:9, 10.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ Or have ye not read in the law, that on the sabbath day the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are guiltless?

Common English Bible

⁵ Or haven’t you read in the Law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple treat the Sabbath as any other day and are still innocent?

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ Or have you not read in the law, that on the Sabbaths the priests in the temple violate the Sabbath, and they are without guilt?

Matthew 12:5 Cross References

Nehemiah 13:17

Then I contended with the nobles of Yehuḏ

Ezekiel 24:21

‘Speak to the house of Yisra’ĕ

Leviticus 24:8

“On every Sabbath he is to arrange it before יהוה  continually, from the children of Yisra’ĕ

Matthew 12:4

how he went into the House of Elohim and ate the showbread which was not right for him to eat, nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests?

Matthew 12:6

“But I say to you that in this place there is One greater than the Set-apart Place.