Malachi 1:1-2

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1 This is the message that the Lord told to Malachi.^[a] Malachi knew that he must tell this message to the Israelites.

²The Lord says, ‘I have loved you.’

But you ask, ‘How have you loved us?’^[b]

The Lord says, ‘I chose to love Jacob and his descendants. Esau was Jacob's brother.

1:1 When we write Lord like this, it is a special name for God. Sometimes people write it as ‘Yahweh’, or as ‘Jehovah’. It is his own name that he told Moses. See Exodus 3:14. It means ‘I am who I am’. This shows that God has always been there and he always will be there.
1:2 God says that he loves the Israelites because they are his special people.

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