Malachi:2:10-16

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* Is there not one father to us all ? Has not one Mighty God created us ? Why do we act deceitfully each man with his brother , by profaning the covenant of our fathers ? * Judah has dealt treacherously , and has done an abomination 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 . * Jehovah will cut off from the tents of Jacob the man who does this , waking and answering , or offering a grain offering to Jehovah of Hosts . * And this is a second thing you do : covering the altar of Jehovah with tears , with weeping and crying out ; so that He does not regard the grain offering , nor receive it with delight from your hand . * Yet you say , For what reason ? Because Jehovah has been witness between you and the wife of your youth , against whom you have dealt treacherously ; and she is your companion and your wife by covenant . * And has He not made them one ? Yet the remnant of the Spirit is in him . And why one ? He was seeking a seed of God . Therefore take heed to your spirit , and do not deal treacherously with the wife of your youth . * For Jehovah the God of Israel , says that He hates divorce , and to cover violence with one ’s garment , says Jehovah of Hosts . Therefore take heed to your spirit and do not deal treacherously .

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