Mal’aḵi (Malachi) 2
2
1“And now, O priests, this command is for you.
2“If you do not hear, and if you do not take it to heart, to give esteem to My Name,” said יהוה of hosts, “I shall send a curse upon you, and I shall curse your blessings. And indeed, I have cursed them, because you do not take it to heart.
3“See, I shall rebuke your seed, and scatter dung before your faces, the dung of your festivals. And you shall be taken away with it.
4“And you shall know that I have sent this command to you, as being My covenant with Lĕwi,” said יהוה of hosts.
5“My covenant with him was life and peace, and I gave them to him, to fear. And he feared Me, and stood in awe of My Name.
6“The Torah of truth#See footnote at Neh. 9:13 was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found on his lips. He walked with Me in peace and straightness, and turned many away from crookedness.
7“For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and they seek the Torah from his mouth, for he is the messenger of יהוה of hosts.
8“But you, you have turned from the way, you have caused many to stumble in the Torah. You have corrupted the covenant of Lĕwi,” said יהוה of hosts.
9“And I also, I shall make you despised and low before all the people, because you are not guarding My ways, and are showing partiality in the Torah.”
10Have we not all one Father? Did not one Ěl create us? Why do we act treacherously against one another, to profane the covenant of the fathers?
11Yehuḏah has acted treacherously, and an abomination has been done in Yisra’ĕl and in Yerushalayim, for Yehuḏah has profaned what is set-apart to יהוה – which He had loved – and has married the daughter of a foreign mighty one.
12Let יהוה cut off from the tents of Ya‛aqoḇ the man who does this – stirring up or answering, and bringing an offering to יהוה of hosts!
13And this you have done a second time: you cover the slaughter-place of יהוה with tears, with weeping and crying, because He no longer regards the offering, nor receives it with pleasure from your hands.
14And you said, “Why?” Because יהוה has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have acted treacherously, though she is your companion and the wife of your covenant.
15And did He not make one? And He had the remnant of the Spirit? And what is the one alone? He seeks a seed of Elohim. So you shall guard your spirit, and let none act treacherously against the wife of his youth.
16“For I hate divorce,” said יהוה Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, “and the one who covers his garment with cruelty,” said יהוה of hosts. “So you shall guard your spirit, and do not act treacherously.”
17You have wearied יהוה with your words, and you have said, “In what way have we wearied Him?” In that you say, “Everyone who does evil is good in the eyes of יהוה, and He is delighting in them,” or, “Where is the Elohim of right-ruling?”
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Malachi 2
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Malachi 2
1¶ And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you.
2If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, said the Lord of the hosts, I will 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.
3Behold, I reprehend your seed and spread the dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemnities; and ye shall be removed with it.
4And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, said the Lord of the hosts.
5My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him for the fear with which he feared me and was broken before my name.
6The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and righteousness and turned many away from iniquity.
7For the priest’s lips keep wisdom, and they seek the law at his mouth; for he is an angel of the Lord of the hosts.
8But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble in the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, said the Lord of the hosts.
9Therefore I have 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? has not one God created us? why do we despise each man his brother by breaking the covenant of our fathers?
11Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of the Lord by loving and marrying the daughter of a strange god.
12The Lord will cut off the man that does this, the master and the scholar out of the tabernacles of Jacob and him that offers an offering unto the Lord of the hosts.
13And once again ye shall cover the altar of the Lord with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, for I shall not even look at the offering any more to receive a free will offering from your hand.
14Yet ye say, Why? Because the Lord has been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously; yet she is thy companion and the wife of thy covenant.
15And did he not make one, having in himself abundance of the Spirit? And why one? That he might seek offspring of God. Therefore take heed to your spirit and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
16He that rejects her, sending her away, said the Lord God of Israel, covers the violence with his garment, said the Lord of the hosts; therefore take heed in your spirit, and do not be treacherous.
17Ye have wearied the Lord with your words. Yet ye say, In what have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that does evil pleases the Lord, and he delights in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?
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