Who hath not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead. Who so lovingly continueth a kind remembrance of his dead kinsman, my late husband Elimelech, and, for his sake, of me. Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice? Why do ye contemn my sacrifices; and make a scorn of them before the people? And honourest thy sons above me. Wherefore hast thou given more respect to thy sons, than unto me; in that thou hast suffered them to carve for themselves of my sacrifices, and to eat thereof before I am served? I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy fathers should walk before me for ever; but now the LORD saith; be it far from me. I had indeed, at the first institution of the priesthood, truly, though conditionally, decreed, that thy house and the house of thy fathers should ever continue this sacred office before me; but now, since ye have violated that part of the condition which concerned yourselves, far be it from me to perpetuate the priesthood unto you.