10 Have we not all one [a]father? hath not one God made us? why do we transgress everyone against his brother, and break the covenant of [b]our fathers?

11 Judah hath transgressed, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem: for Israel hath defiled the holiness of the Lord, which he loved, and hath married the [c]daughter of a strange god.

12 The Lord will cut off the man that doeth this: both the master and the servant out of the Tabernacle of Jacob, and him that [d]offereth an offering unto the Lord of hosts.

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Footnotes

  1. Malachi 2:10 The Prophet accuseth the ingratitude of the Jews toward God and man: for seeing they were all born of one father Abraham, and God had elected them to be his holy people, they ought neither to offend God nor their brethren.
  2. Malachi 2:10 Whereby they had bound themselves to God to be an holy people.
  3. Malachi 2:11 They have joined themselves in marriage with them that are of another religion.
  4. Malachi 2:12 That is, the Priest.

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