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Malachi 1:5-7
Lexham English Bible
Malachi 1:5-7
Lexham English Bible
5 Your eyes will see this, and you will say, “Yahweh is great beyond the borders[a] of Israel.”
An Oracle Against the Temple Priesthood
6 “A son honors his father, and a slave his master;[b] but if I am a father, where is my honor, and if I am a master,[c] where is my reverence?” says Yahweh of hosts to you, O priests, who despise[d] my name. “But you say, ‘How have we despised your name?’ 7 You are presenting defiled food on my altar! But you ask, ‘How have we defiled you?’ By saying that the table of Yahweh is despised!
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- Malachi 1:5 Hebrew “boundary”
- Malachi 1:6 Hebrew “masters”
- Malachi 1:6 Hebrew “masters”
- Malachi 1:6 Literally “despisers of”
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