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|Malaquias 2:1| And now, O priests, this command is for you.
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|Malaquias 2:2| If you will not listen, if you will not lay it to heart to give glory to my name, says the LORD of hosts, then I will send the curse on you and I will curse your blessings; indeed I have already cursed them, 1 because you do not lay it to heart.
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|Malaquias 2:3| I will rebuke your offspring, and spread dung on your faces, the dung of your offerings, and I will put you out of my presence. 2
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|Malaquias 2:4| Know, then, that I have sent this command to you, that my covenant with Levi may hold, says the LORD of hosts.
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|Malaquias 2:5| My covenant with him was a covenant of life and well-being, which I gave him; this called for reverence, and he revered me and stood in awe of my name.
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|Malaquias 2:6| True instruction was in his mouth, and no wrong was found on his lips. He walked with me in integrity and uprightness, and he turned many from iniquity.
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|Malaquias 2:7| For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.
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|Malaquias 2:8| But you have turned aside from the way; you have caused many to stumble by your instruction; you have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says the LORD of hosts,
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|Malaquias 2:9| and so I make you despised and abased before all the people, inasmuch as you have not kept my ways but have shown partiality in your instruction.
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|Malaquias 2:10| Have we not all one father? Has not one God created us? Why then are we faithless to one another, profaning the covenant of our ancestors?
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