²⁵ Then people will answer, “It is because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, which he had made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.

²² for when I brought your ancestors out of the land of Egypt, I did not speak with them^(A) or command them concerning burnt offering and sacrifice.

¹³ ‘This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I made a covenant^(A) with your ancestors when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the place of slavery, saying,