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Malachi 2:1
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And now, O
ye priests, this commandment
is
for you.
2
If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay
it
to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the
L
ORD
of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay
it
to heart.
3
Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces,
even
the dung of your solemn feasts; and
one
shall take you away with it.
4
And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the
L
ORD
of hosts.
5
My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him
for
the fear wherewith he feared me, and was afraid before my name.
6
The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from iniquity.
7
For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he
is
the messenger of the
L
ORD
of hosts.
8
But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the
L
ORD
of hosts.
9
Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.
10
Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?
11
Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the
L
ORD
which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.
12
The
L
ORD
will cut off the man that doeth this, the master and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that offereth an offering unto the
L
ORD
of hosts.
13
And this have ye done again, covering the altar of the
L
ORD
with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, or receiveth
it
with good will at your hand.
14
Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the
L
ORD
hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet
is
she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
15
And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
16
For the
L
ORD
, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for
one
covereth violence with his garment, saith the
L
ORD
of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.
17
Ye have wearied the
L
ORD
with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied
him?
When ye say, Every one that doeth evil
is
good in the sight of the
L
ORD
, and he delighteth in them; or, Where
is
the God of judgment?
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