24You [spiritually] blind guides, who strain out a gnat [consuming yourselves with miniscule matters] and swallow a camel [ignoring and violating God’s precepts]! [Lev 11:24; 27:30; Mic 6:8]
24You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.23:24 See Leviticus 11:4 and Leviticus 11:23, where camels and gnats are both forbidden as food.