For the Priest’s [a]lips should preserve knowledge, and they should seek the Law at his mouth: for he is the [b]messenger of the Lord of hosts.

But ye are gone out of the way: ye have caused many to fall by the Law: ye have broken the covenant of Levi, saith the Lord of hosts.

Therefore have I also made you to be despised, and vile before all the people, because ye kept not my ways, but have been partial in the Law.

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Footnotes

  1. Malachi 2:7 He is as the treasure house of God’s word, and ought to give to everyone according to their necessity, and not to reserve it for himself.
  2. Malachi 2:7 Showing that whosoever doth not declare God’s will, is not his messenger, and Priest.

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