Malachi 2:3-5
GOD’S WORD Translation
3 “I’m going to punish your descendants. I’m going to spread excrement on your faces, the excrement from your festival sacrifices. You will be discarded with it. 4 Then you will know that I sent you this warning so that my promise [a] to Levi will continue,” says the Lord of Armies. 5 “I promised Levi life and peace. I gave them to him so that he would respect me. He respected me and stood in awe of my name.
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- 2:4 Or “covenant.”
Malachi 2:3-5
New International Version
3 “Because of you I will rebuke your descendants[a]; I will smear on your faces the dung(A) from your festival sacrifices, and you will be carried off with it.(B) 4 And you will know that I have sent you this warning so that my covenant with Levi(C) may continue,” says the Lord Almighty. 5 “My covenant was with him, a covenant(D) of life and peace,(E) and I gave them to him; this called for reverence(F) and he revered me and stood in awe of my name.
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- Malachi 2:3 Or will blight your grain
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