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1 “Now, you priests, this commandment is for you.
2 If you will not listen, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give
glory to my name,” says Jehovah of Armies, “then will I send the curse on you,
and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them already, because
you do not lay it to heart. 3 Behold, I will rebuke your offspring, and
will spread dung on your faces, even the dung of your feasts; and you will be
taken away with it. 4 You will know that I have sent this commandment to
you, that my covenant may be with Levi,” says Jehovah of Armies.
5 “My covenant was with him of life and peace;
and I gave them to him that he might be reverent toward me; and he was reverent
toward me, and stood in awe of my name. 6 The law of truth was in his
mouth, and unrighteousness was not found in his lips. He walked with me in
peace and uprightness, and turned 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 Jehovah of Armies. 8 But you have turned aside
out of the way. You have caused many to stumble in the law. You have corrupted
the covenant of Levi,” says Jehovah of Armies.
9 “Therefore I have also made you contemptible
and base before all the people, according to the way you have not kept my ways,
but have been partial toward persons in the law.” 10 Don’t we all have one
father? Hasn’t one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man
against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers? 11 Judah has
dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in
Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of Jehovah which he loves, and
has married the daughter of a foreign god. 12 Jehovah will cut off, to the
man who does this, him who wakes and him who answers, out of the tents of
Jacob, and him who offers an offering to Jehovah of Armies. 13 This again
you do: you cover the altar of Jehovah with tears, with weeping, and with
sighing, because he doesn’t regard the offering any more, neither receives it
with good will at your hand.
14 Yet you say, “Why?” Because Jehovah has been
witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt
treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant. 15 Did
he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He
sought godly offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal
treacherously against the wife of his youth. 16 “For I hate divorce,” says
Jehovah, the God of Israel, “and him who covers his garment with violence!”
says Jehovah of Armies.
Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don’t
deal treacherously. 17 You have wearied Jehovah with your words. Yet you
say, “How have we wearied him?” In that you say, “Everyone who does evil is
good in Jehovah’s sight, and he delights in them;” or “Where is the God of
justice?”
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