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New American Standard Bible 1995

Malachi 2:4-10

4Then you will know that I have sent this commandment to you, 1that My 2covenant may 3continue with Levi,” says the Lord of hosts. 5“My covenant with him was one of life and 4peace, and I gave them to him as an object of 5reverence; so he 67revered Me and stood in awe of My name. 689True instruction was in his mouth and unrighteousness was not found on his lips; he walked 10with Me in peace and uprightness, and he 11turned many back from iniquity. 7For the lips of a priest should preserve 12knowledge, and 13men should 14seek 15instruction from his mouth; for he is the 16messenger of the Lord of hosts. 8But as for you, you have turned aside from the way; you have caused many to 17stumble 18by the instruction; you have 1920corrupted the covenant of Levi,” says the Lord of hosts. 9“So 21I also have made you despised and 22abased 23before all the people, just as you are not keeping My ways but are showing 24partiality in the 25instruction.

10“Do we not all have 26one father? 27Has not one God created us? Why do we deal 28treacherously each against his brother so as to profane the 29covenant of our fathers?

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Notes

  1. 1. Malachi 2:4 Or to be My covenant with ↩
  2. 2. Malachi 2:4 Num 3:11-13, 45; 18:21; Neh 13:29; Mal 3:1 ↩
  3. 3. Malachi 2:4 Lit be ↩
  4. 4. Malachi 2:5 Num 25:12 ↩
  5. 5. Malachi 2:5 Or fear ↩
  6. 6. Malachi 2:5 Or feared ↩
  7. 7. Malachi 2:5 Num 25:7, 8, 13 ↩
  8. 8. Malachi 2:6 Or Law of truth ↩
  9. 9. Malachi 2:6 Ps 119:142, 151, 160 ↩
  10. 10. Malachi 2:6 Deut 33:8, 9; Ps 37:37 ↩
  11. 11. Malachi 2:6 Jer 23:22 ↩
  12. 12. Malachi 2:7 Lev 10:11; Neh 8:7 ↩
  13. 13. Malachi 2:7 Lit they ↩
  14. 14. Malachi 2:7 Num 27:21; Deut 17:8-11; Jer 18:18; Ezek 7:26 ↩
  15. 15. Malachi 2:7 Or law ↩
  16. 16. Malachi 2:7 Hag 1:13 ↩
  17. 17. Malachi 2:8 Jer 18:15 ↩
  18. 18. Malachi 2:8 Or in the law ↩
  19. 19. Malachi 2:8 Or violated ↩
  20. 20. Malachi 2:8 Num 25:12, 13; Neh 13:29; Ezek 44:10 ↩
  21. 21. Malachi 2:9 Nah 3:6 ↩
  22. 22. Malachi 2:9 Ezek 7:26 ↩
  23. 23. Malachi 2:9 Lit to ↩
  24. 24. Malachi 2:9 Deut 1:17; Mic 3:11 ↩
  25. 25. Malachi 2:9 Or law ↩
  26. 26. Malachi 2:10 Is 63:16; 64:8; Jer 31:9; 1 Cor 8:6; Eph 4:6 ↩
  27. 27. Malachi 2:10 Acts 17:24f ↩
  28. 28. Malachi 2:10 Jer 9:4, 5 ↩
  29. 29. Malachi 2:10 Ex 19:4-6; 24:3, 7, 8 ↩

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