Malachi 3:6-8

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Stealing from God

⁶ “I the Lord do not change. So you descendants of Jacob have not been ·destroyed [consumed]. ⁷ ·Since the time [^LFrom the days] of your ·ancestors [fathers], you have ·disobeyed [turned away from; spurned] my ·rules [decrees; commands] and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says the Lord ·All-Powerful [Almighty; of Heaven’s Armies; ^Tof hosts].

“But you ask, ‘How can we return?’

⁸ “·Should [or Can] a person rob God? But you are robbing me.

“You ask, ‘How have we robbed you?’

“You have robbed me in your offerings and ·the tenth of your crops [tithes].