Malachi:2

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* And now , O ye priests , this commandment [is ] for you . * If ye will not hear , and if ye will not lay [it ] to heart , to give glory unto my name , said the LORD of the hosts , I will send a curse upon you , and I will curse your blessings ; yea , I have cursed them already because ye do not lay [it ] to heart . * Behold , I reprehend [your ] seed and spread the dung upon your faces , [even ] the dung of your solemnities ; and ye shall be removed with it . * And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you , that my covenant might be with Levi , said the LORD of the hosts . * My covenant was with him of life and peace ; and I gave them to him [for ] the fear with which he feared me and was broken before my name . * The law of truth was in his mouth , and iniquity was not found in his lips : he walked with me in peace and righteousness and turned many away from iniquity . * For the priest 's lips keep wisdom , and they seek the law at his mouth ; for he [is an ] angel of the LORD of the hosts . * But ye are departed out of the way ; ye have caused many to stumble in the law ; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi , said the LORD of the hosts . * Therefore I have also made you contemptible and base before all the people , according as ye have not kept my ways , but have been partial in the law . * Have we not all one father ? has not one God created us ? why do we despise each man his brother by breaking the covenant of our fathers ? * Judah has dealt treacherously , and an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem ; for Judah has profaned the holiness of the LORD by loving and marrying the daughter of a strange god . * The LORD will cut off the man that does this , the master and the scholar out of the tabernacles of Jacob and him that offers an offering unto the LORD of the hosts . * And once again ye shall cover the altar of the LORD with tears , with weeping , and with crying out , for I shall not even look at the offering any more to receive [a ] free will offering from your hand . * Yet ye say , Why ? Because the LORD has been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth , against whom thou hast dealt treacherously ; yet she [is ] thy companion and the wife of thy covenant . * And did he not make one , having in himself abundance of [the ] Spirit ? And why one ? That he might seek offspring of God . Therefore take heed to your spirit and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth . * He that rejects her , sending her away , said the LORD God of Israel , covers the violence with his garment , said the LORD of the hosts ; therefore take heed in your spirit , and do not be treacherous . * Ye have wearied the LORD with your words . Yet ye say , In what have we wearied [him ]? When ye say , Every one that does evil pleases the LORD , and he delights in them ; or , Where [is ] the God of judgment ?:

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