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          DASV: Malachi 2

1 "Now, O priests, this commandment is for you.
2 If you will not listen, and if you will not commit your heart
to honor my name," says the LORD of hosts, "then I will send
the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. I have
cursed them already, because you did not take it to heart.
3 I will rebuke your descendants, and will spread excrement on
your faces, even the excrement of your feasts; you will be
hauled away with it.
4 Then you will know that I have sent this commandment to you,
that my covenant may continue to be with Levi," says the LORD
of hosts.
5 "My covenant was with him for life and peace; and I gave it
to him so that he might fear me; he did fear me and stood in awe
of my name.
6 The true instruction was in his mouth, and unrighteousness
was not found on his lips. He walked with me in peace and
uprightness, and turned many away from sin.
7 For the priest's lips should preserve knowledge, and the people
should seek the law from his mouth; for he is the messenger
of the LORD of hosts.
8 But you have turned away from the way. You have caused many
to stumble over the law. You have corrupted the covenant of
Levi," says the LORD of hosts.
9 "Therefore I have also made you despicable and demeaned
before all the people, in so far that you have not kept my
ways, but have shown favoritism in your instruction.
10 Do we not all have one father? Has not one God created us?
Why do we betray each other, violating the covenant of our
forefathers?
11 Judah has been unfaithful, and an abomination has been
committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned
the sanctuary of the LORD which he loves, and has married
the daughter of a foreign god.
12 May the LORD cut off from the tents of Jacob anyone who
does this along with him who offers a defiled offering to
the LORD of hosts.

13 Here’s another thing you do: you cover the altar of the LORD
with tears, weeping, and sighing, because he no longer
responds to the offering, nor does he accept it with favor
from your hand.
14 Yet you complain, "Why not?" For the LORD has become a
witness against you and for the wife of your youth whom you
have betrayed, even though she is your companion, and the
wife of your marriage covenant.
15 Did he not make them one? Both flesh and spirit are his.
What was the one God wanting? Godly offspring. So guard
your spirit, and let no one be unfaithful to the wife of
his youth.
16 "For I hate divorce," says the LORD, the God of Israel,
"and one who covers his garment with violence," says the LORD
of hosts. So guard your spirit, and do not be unfaithful.
17 You have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet you ask,
"How have we wearied him?" By saying, "Everyone who does
evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delights in
them;" or "Where is the God of justice?"
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