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Additional Warning to the Priests
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"And now, you priests, this warning is for you. SCode Mal 2:4 Mal 1:6~7
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If you do not listen, and if you do not resolve to honor my name," says the LORD Almighty, "I will send a curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have already cursed them, because you have not resolved to honor me. SCode Lev 26:14 Deu 28:15 Psa 69:22 Mal 3:9
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"Because of you I will rebuke your descendants; I will smear on your faces the dung from your festival sacrifices, and you will be carried off with it. SCode Exo 29:14 Jol 1:17 Nah 3:6 Hag 2:17
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And you will know that I have sent you this warning so that my covenant with Levi may continue," says the LORD Almighty. SCode Num 25:12~13 Num 3:45 Neh 13:29 Mal 2:1 Mal 2:8
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"My covenant was with him, a covenant of life and peace, and I gave them to him; this called for reverence and he revered me and stood in awe of my name. SCode Lev 16:2 Isa 54:10
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True instruction was in his mouth and nothing false was found on his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and turned many from sin. SCode Deu 33:10 Dan 12:3 Jas 5:20
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"For the lips of a priest ought to preserve knowledge, because he is the messenger of the LORD Almighty and people seek instruction from his mouth. SCode Lev 10:11 Deu 17:9
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But you have turned from the way and by your teaching have caused many to stumble; you have violated the covenant with Levi," says the LORD Almighty. SCode 1Sam 2:17 Jer 18:15 Ezk 22:26 Mal 2:4
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"So I have caused you to be despised and humiliated before all the people, because you have not followed my ways but have shown partiality in matters of the law." SCode Deu 1:17 Deu 16:19 1Sam 2:30
Breaking Covenant Through Divorce
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Do we not all have one Father? Did not one God create us? Why do we profane the covenant of our ancestors by being unfaithful to one another? SCode Isa 33:1 Isa 21:2 Isa 24:16 Act 17:26 1Cor 8:6 Eph 4:6
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Judah has been unfaithful. A detestable thing has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem: Judah has desecrated the sanctuary the LORD loves by marrying women who worship a foreign god. SCode Ezr 9:2 Mal 2:10
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As for the man who does this, whoever he may be, may the LORD remove him from the tents of Jacob - even though he brings an offering to the LORD Almighty. SCode
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Another thing you do: You flood the LORD’s altar with tears. You weep and wail because he no longer looks with favor on your offerings or accepts them with pleasure from your hands. SCode Zech 7:3
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You ask, "Why?" It is because the LORD is the witness between you and the wife of your youth. You have been unfaithful to her, though she is your partner, the wife of your marriage covenant. SCode Isa 54:6 Mal 1:2 Mal 3:5 Mal 2:10
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Has not the one God made you? You belong to him in body and spirit. And what does the one God seek? Godly offspring. So be on your guard, and do not be unfaithful to the wife of your youth. SCode Gen 2:24 Ezr 9:2 Mal 2:10 Mt 19:4~5
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"The man who hates and divorces his wife," says the LORD, the God of Israel, "does violence to the one he should protect," says the LORD Almighty. So be on your guard, and do not be unfaithful. SCode Mal 2:10~11 Mt 5:32 Mk 10:9 Mk 10:11 Lk 16:18 1Cor 7:10
Breaking Covenant Through Injustice
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You have wearied the LORD with your words. "How have we wearied him?" you ask. By saying, "All who do evil are good in the eyes of the LORD, and he is pleased with them" or "Where is the God of justice?" SCode Isa 5:20 Isa 43:24 Mal 3:1 Mal 2:14 Mal 3:15 2Pet 3:4
NIV Footnotes
  1. 2:3 Or will blight your grain
  2. 2:10 Or father
  3. 2:12 Or 12 May the Lord remove from the tents of Jacob anyone who gives testimony in behalf of the man who does this
  4. 2:15 The meaning of the Hebrew for the first part of this verse is uncertain.
  5. 2:16 Or “I hate divorce,” says the Lord, the God of Israel, “because the man who divorces his wife covers his garment with violence,”
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