Malachi:2:10-16

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* Have we not all one father ? hath not one God created us ? why then doth every one of us despise his brother , violating the covenant of our fathers ? * Juda hath transgressed , and abomination hath been committed in Israel , and in Jerusalem : for Juda hath profaned the holiness of the Lord , which he loved , and hath married the daughter of a strange God . * The Lord will cut off the man that hath done this , both the master , and the scholar , out of the tabernacles of Jacob , and him that offereth an offering to the Lord of hosts . * And this again have you done , you have covered the altar of the Lord with tears , with weeping , and bellowing , so that I have no more a regard to sacrifice , neither do I accept any atonement at your hands . * And you have said : For what cause ? Because the Lord hath been witness between thee , and the wife of thy youth , whom thou hast despised : yet she was thy partner , and the wife of thy covenant . * Did not one make her , and she is the residue of his spirit ? And what doth one seek , but the seed of God ? Keep then your spirit , and despise not the wife of thy youth . * When thou shalt hate her put her away , saith the Lord the God of Israel : but iniquity shall cover his garment , saith the Lord of hosts , keep your spirit , and despise not .

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