“But My people do not know the ordinance of the LORD. How can you say, ‘We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us’? But behold, the lying pen of the scribes has made it into a lie. The wise men are put to shame, they are dismayed and caught; Behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, and what kind of wisdom do they have” (8:7–9)? Right there, in black and white, Jeremiah confirmed that the scribes had inserted lies into the OT writings, many centuries before a Bible was ever published or canonized.*
