Even the firstfruits of grain and the tithes of wine and of oil, which they had guarded and consecrated for the priests who stand at Jerusalem in the presence of our God — even these they have judged fit to use up, when not one of the people is permitted to lay so much as a hand on them.
In context
11And now, so that my lord is not cast off empty with nothing accomplished: death is about to fall on their faces, and a sin has caught up with them by which they will enrage their God, the moment they do what ought not to be done. 12Their food has run out on them and all their water has grown scarce, so they have resolved to lay hands on their livestock, and they have decided to consume everything that God forbade them by his laws to eat. 13Even the firstfruits of grain and the tithes of wine and of oil, which they had guarded and consecrated for the priests who stand at Jerusalem in the presence of our God — even these they have judged fit to use up, when not one of the people is permitted to lay so much as a hand on them. 14They have sent men to Jerusalem, since the people living there have been doing the same, to bring them back a release from the council of elders. 15And here is what will happen: the moment word reaches them and they act on it, that very day they will be handed over to you for destruction.
